Deadline- 31 May 2013
Applications are invited form mid-career professionals for Commonwealth Professional Fellowships Program to pursue their studies in UK. This program offers opportunities to the applicants from developing Commonwealth countries for their professional development.
Programmes must have demonstrable development impact in the Fellow’s home country and the Fellow must be able to show how the knowledge and skills they will gain during the Fellowship will be disseminated after their return home.
Thematic areas-
- agriculture/fisheries/forestry
- economic growth
- education
- engineering/science/technology
- environment
- governance
- public health
Eligibility & Criteria-
- Be Commonwealth citizens, refugees or British protected persons, and must be permanently resident in a developing Commonwealth country
- Normally have at least five years’ relevant work experience in a profession related to the subject of the application, by the proposed start of the Fellowship.
- Be available to commence their Fellowship within prescribed dates as stated on the CSC website
- Not have undertaken a Commonwealth Professional Fellowship in the last five years
- Not be seeking to undertake an academic programme of research or study in the UK. Academics are eligible to apply for the scheme, but only to undertake programmes of academic management, not research or courses relevant to their research subject
- The CSC wishes to promote equal opportunity, gender equity and cultural exchange. Applications are welcome from the many different races and origins that comprise the Commonwealth’s rich variety of cultures, traditions and institutions.
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