Himachalam Dasaraju (2008 Commonwealth Fellow, Corporate Governance, University of Essex) has been awarded the A P State Best Teacher Award 2011. He was presented with the award by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N Kiran Kumar Reddy, on 5 September – which is...
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DelPHE call for project consultants
The Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE) programme has announced an opportunity for former Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows to apply to be Local Consultants in DelPHE’s ongoing Monitoring and Evaluation scheme. DelPHE is seeking a number of...
Commonwealth Scholar knighted in Queen’s birthday honours list
Professor Sir Woodville Marshall (Commonwealth Scholar, PhD History, University of Cambridge, 1960 - 1962) has received a knighthood for services to education in Barbados. Sir Woodville was in the first cohort of Commonwealth Scholars in 1960, and is believed to be...
New guide on accessing journals for African researchers
Researchers in African universities and research institutes often report that they lack access to high quality academic journals. But recent research suggests that around 80% of some the top-ranking journals are actually available in the current collections of many...
Fellow utilises research in community conflict resolution
Dr Moji Olateju held a Commonwealth Fellowship at the University of Birmingham in 2006. She spent her award working on discourse analysis, researching the multimodal features of political billboards and other social contexts in Nigeria. Her fellowship has broadened...
Commonwealth Scholar working on PhD
Oyomoare Osazuwa-Peters held a Commonwealth Scholarship for a Masters in Environmental Protection and Management at the University of Edinburgh, 2007 and returned home to continue working in the Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology, University of Benin....
Recent alumni publications April 2011
Dr Adebambo Adewale Oduwole was awarded a Professional Fellowship in Education and Technology at Middlesex University in 2005, Adebambo has since completed his doctorate in Library and Information Studies and has now been appointed Medical Librarian at Lagos State...
Alumni projects update – May 2011
Latest Alumni Feature online now The latest Alumni Feature on our website is Focus on Nigerian Alumni, looking at research and career projects covering areas as diverse as agriculture, textile design, bio-energy and community conflict resolution. Dr Nicholas Ozor, who...
Teacher Mobility, Recruitment and Migration Symposium, Addis Ababa
The Commonwealth Secretariat and the UNESCO International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa will be holding the sixth Commonwealth Research Symposium on Teacher Mobility, Recruitment and Migration in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 8-9 June 2011. Under the general...
Next issue of Commonwealth Scholarships News
The next issue of CS News will celebrate the achievements of our Australian alumni in the period leading up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia in October. Australian alumni are welcome to submit news items for the Alumni section of the...
