Applications
are now open for 2020/21 Chevening Scholarship and some Chevening Fellowships.
Chevening offers a unique opportunity for future leaders, influencers, and
decision-makers from all over the world to develop professionally and
academically, network extensively, experience UK culture, and build lasting
positive relationships with the UK.
Chevening
Scholarships are the UK
Government’s global scholarship programme, funded by the Foreign and
Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations. The programme offers awards
to outstanding scholars with leadership potential from around the world to
study for a master’s degree in any subject at any UK university.
The
significance of the Chevening scholarship scheme rests
on its large scope – approximately 700 scholarships are awarded each year to
students from more than 110 countries, allowing students from developing
countries to access British tertiary education institutions, some of which are
of a very high standard as determined by international rankings.
The most
popular destinations for the Chevening Scholars to study in 2011 were the
London School of Economics & Political Science, University College London,
and the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, University of Nottingham,
University of Bath and King’s College London.
Applications
for Chevening Scholarships to study in the UK will be open from 5 August 2019
Location: United Kingdom
Benefits
A Chevening
Scholarship normally covers
- University tuition fees
- A monthly stipend
- Travel costs to and from the UK
- An arrival allowance
- A homeward departure allowance
- The cost of one visa application
- A travel grant to attend
Chevening events in the UK
Eligibilities
- To be eligible for a Chevening
Scholarship you must:
- Be a citizen of a
Chevening-eligible country or territory.
- Return to your country of
citizenship for a minimum of two years after your award has ended.
- Have completed all components
of an undergraduate degree that will enable you to gain entry onto a
postgraduate programme at a UK university by the time you submit your
application. This is typically equivalent to an upper second-class 2:1
honours degree in the UK.
- Have at least two years of work
experience.
- Apply to three different
eligible UK university courses and have received an
unconditional offer from one of these choices by 16 July 2020.
- Meet the Chevening English
language requirement by 16 July 2020.
- Language Test:
- In order to receive a Chevening
Scholarship, all applicants must demonstrate that they have fulfilled
Chevening’s English language requirement by 16 July 2020. We advise all
applicants to ensure they have fulfilled the English language requirement
as early as possible by either:
- Taking an English language
test.
- Claiming an exemption based on
the UKVI exempt categories.
If you fail
to demonstrate that you have met the required English language level by 16 July
2020 or fail to prove that you qualify for an exemption, your application will
not be successful.
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- Chevening accepts English
language tests from five providers:
- Academic IELTS
- Pearson PTE Academic
- TOEFL iBT
- C1 Advanced (formerly
Cambridge English: Advanced [CAE])
- Trinity ISE II (B2)
- The English language test must
have been taken from one of these providers on or after 1 October 2018.
If you do not already have an existing eligible test certificate, it is
your responsibility to ensure that you have booked a test date so that
you can obtain the required results.
- Applicants are not permitted to
take pre-sessional courses to fulfil Chevening’s English language
requirement. You will be required to take one of the approved English
language tests unless you fall into one of the exempt categories.
- Applicants are not permitted to
enrol on pre-sessional courses to fulfil their university’s English
language requirement or any other conditions of a university offer. Any
offer from a university with a requirement to undertake a pre-sessional
course will be considered conditional.
- For further details regarding
the language test, visit here.
- Work Experience:
- You must ensure that you meet
the minimum work-experience requirement for the scholarship before
submitting your Chevening application. Chevening Scholarships require
that applicants have at least two years of work experience.
- Eligible types of work
experience:
- Full-time employment
- Part-time employment
- Voluntary work
- Paid or unpaid internships
- For further details regarding
the work experience, visit here.
- You are not eligible for a
Chevening Scholarship if you:
- Hold British or dual British
citizenship (unless you are a citizen of a British Overseas Territory or
hold BN(O) and are applying from Hong Kong).
- Hold refugee status in a
non-Chevening eligible country. Applicants who are citizens of a
Chevening-eligible country and who hold refugee status in a
Chevening-eligible country are eligible for a scholarship.
- Are an employee, a former
employee, or relative* of an employee (since July 2017) of Her Majesty’s
Government (including British embassies/high commissions; the Department
for International Development; the Department for Business, Energy &
Industrial Strategy; Department for International Trade; the Ministry of
Defence; and the Home Office), or a staff member of the Association of
Commonwealth Universities.
- Employees, former employees, or
relatives* of an employee (since July 2017) of Chevening Partner
organisations are eligible to apply, but cannot receive a Chevening
Partner Award from the organisation from which they work, previously
worked, or are affiliated with through relatives.
- Have previously studied in the
UK with funding from a UK Government-funded scholarship.
Once
submitted, applications undergo an electronic sift against our eligibility criteria.
Any applications deemed ineligible will be removed from the selection process.
Please note that once your application has been submitted, it is not possible
to change it retrospectively.
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