University of Pretoria at South Africa is currently inviting applications from African Human Rights Advocates for Commonwealth Commission/ Chevening Scholarship Program 2012-13. These scholarships provide an excellent opportunity to selected candidates to pursue Masters Studies in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford. About five scholarships are available for the students and provide full funding to attend the Masters program. The program will start in September 2012.
Scholarships Provisions
The scholarships are funded by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and the Foreign Office’s Chevening Scholarship Fund and are intended for human rights advocates from African Commonwealth countries who would be unable, without assistance, to take up their place on this course. Each scholarship provides course and college fees at the University of Oxford over two years, a stipend to cover living costs and return air travel from the scholar’s home country for each residential session.
The five scholarships provide fully funded opportunities for part-time postgraduate study in international human rights law at the University of Oxford. The course of study is taught over 22 months and consists of two residential sessions in Oxford and two periods of distance learning. Subject to satisfactory progress, the scholarships lead to the award of a Master of Studies (MSt) in International Human Rights Law.
About Master’s in International Human Rights Law
Oxford University’s Master’s programme in International Human Rights Law is offered jointly by the Department for Continuing Education and the Faculty of Law. It is conducted on a part-time basis over 22 months. It involves two periods of distance learning via the internet as well as two summer sessions held at New College, Oxford. The degree programme is designed in particular for lawyers and other human rights advocates who wish to pursue advanced studies in international human rights law but may need to do so alongside work or family responsibilities.
The aim of the degree programme is to train and support future leaders in the field of international human rights law. A central objective of the course is to ensure that participants not only know but can also use human rights law. The curriculum places roughly equal emphasis on the substance of human rights law, its implementation, and the development of human rights advocacy skills.
Eligibility Conditions
Applicants must:
- display intellectual ability and leadership potential;
- have an adequate standard of English, as defined and required by the University for studies at which the awards are given;
- be citizens of a developing African Commonwealth country and resident/working in a developing African Commonwealth country when the award is taken up and for its duration (this does not have to be the applicant’s home country).
- Applicants will normally:
- already hold a law degree to a high standard. The degree must be at a level at least equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in Law awarded in the UK. Applications from those with extensive human-rights related experience, but without a law degree, will also be considered.
- have work experience in a related field/s;
- not already have received or be currently receiving financial benefit from a previous British Government funded scholarship or a previous Commonwealth Commission funded scholarship. A preference will be given to applicants who have not previously studied outside of their home country.
Last date for submitting the applications is March 31, 2012.
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