Deadline- 30 September 2012
Countries/Region- Jamaica and the Commonwealth Caribbean
Each year, there is: -One Jamaica Rhodes Scholarship, available to candidates from Jamaica only;-One Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholarship, available to candidates from the Commonwealth Caribbean generally, including Jamaicans (at the Rhodes Trust’s discretion).The Rhodes Trust and Oxford University require that selection for a Scholarship and for admission to the University will be without regard to marital status, race, ethnic origin, colour, religion, sexual orientation, social background, or disability.
ELIGIBILITY-
- The candidate must be a citizen of one of those countries that have gained independence from Great Britain (Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, St. Kitts-Nevis); or
- The candidate must be a Commonwealth Dependent Territories citizen of Montserrat, Anguilla, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands or British Virgin Islands;
- One of the candidate’s parents must have been domiciled and resident in one or more of these territories for at least five (5) years immediately preceding 1st January in the year of the candidature, or, in the event of both being dead, was domiciled and resident in one of thee territories for at least five (5) years prior to his or her death.
- have been educated in one or more of the above territories for at least five (5) years between the ages of nine and twenty;
- Candidate have passed his or her Nineteenth (19) birthday and not passed his or her Twenty-fifth (25th) birthday by 1st October 2013;
- Candidate have undertaken academic training sufficiently advanced to assure the completion of a Bachelor’s Degree by 1st October, 2013.
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