The Chevening Scholarship Program at UK

Background: Chevening Scholarships are a joint initiative between the UK Government’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office and UK universities which are available for students from countries outside the EU, and are awarded to talented people who have been identified as potential future leaders in a range of fields. Most Chevening scholarships are awarded for one year postgraduate taught (i.e.: master's) program. Since the scheme began, over 40,000 students have held Chevening Scholarships. Many have gone on to reach positions of influence in a range of sectors. Famous alumni include:

• Sergei Stanishev – former Prime Minister of Bulgaria; currently President of the Party of European Socialists
• Alvaro Uribe Velez – former President of Colombia
• Baldwin Spencer – Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
• Jorma Ollila – Non-Executive Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell; Non-Executive Chairman of Nokia
• Maged Shawki – former Chairman of the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange
• Xu Shandu – Vice-Minister for Tax Administration, People’s Republic of China
• Vahram Kazhoyan – UNESCO Chair, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Armenia
• Tigran Mkrtchyan – Adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Armenia
• Nittish Mishra – Cabinet Minister, Bihar State, India
• Jaime Bermudez – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Colombia
• Anote Tong – President of Kiribati
• Marek Belka – former Prime Minister of Poland; currently Head of the National Bank of Poland
• Joao Miranda – former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Angola
• Giga Bokeria – Secretary of the National Security Council, Georgia
• Gega Mgaloblishvili – former Prime Minister of Georgia; currently Georgian Ambassador to NATO
• Chong Hiu Yeung – General Secretary of the Hong Kong Journalists Association
• Normans Penke – former State Secretary of the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; currently Latvian Ambassador to the UN
• Irena Radovic – former Deputy Foreign Minister, Montenegro; currently Montenegrin Ambassador to the Principality of Monaco
• Wang Lili – Vice Governor of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
• Bozidarka Dodik – War Crimes Prosecutor, State Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Applicants should be: [Source]

• Motivated to pursue a career that will take them to positions of leadership in their own country within 10 years of their scholarship
• Able to use their studies and experience in the UK to benefit themselves, their countries, and the UK
• Natural influencers and talented communicators, with energy and ambition
• People who value networking and who can demonstrate the value of networks to their studies, and to bringing about change on a global level
• Intelligent, with demonstrable academic potential
• Strong characters with integrity, drive, and the ability to self-manage and work independently

Applicants must: [Source]

• Meet the academic requirements for their chosen courses of study
• Have a good standard of written and spoken English and meet the language requirements for their chosen course(s) of study
• Be citizens of a country other than the UK or another European Union country or the United States of America
• Not be employees, relatives of employees, or former employees (who left within the past two years) of Her Majesty’s Government including FCO (and its British Embassies and High Commissions), DFID, UKTI, MOD, BIS, UKBA, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, a partner (sponsor), or sponsoring UK university
• Not have previously studied in the UK under a UK government-funded scholarship

Deadline: ………….

For further information about Chevening please see: the FCO website.