Deadline: October 17 2023 | 2024–2025 Commonwealth PhD Scholarships fully funded
The 2024-2025 Commonwealth PhD Scholarships , applications are now being accepted. Commonwealth PhD scholarships, which are funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), promote research that will benefit the development of Commonwealth nations.
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For the 2024–2025 Commonwealth PhD Scholarships fully funded candidates from the Commonwealth’s least developed nations and fragile states, as defined by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), Commonwealth PhD Scholarships are available for full-time doctoral study at a UK university.
The UK government’s scholarship programme is run by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC), with a focus on goals for world development. It functions within the parameters of the CSFP (Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan) and provides a striking illustration of the UK’s ongoing dedication to the Commonwealth. The CSC’s work combines sustainable development with the UK national interest and creates opportunities for global partnerships and collaboration by attracting people from all backgrounds with exceptional talent and discernible potential and assisting them in becoming leaders and innovators upon returning to their home countries.
Scholarship
Each award comes with:
- Flights from the Scholar’s home country to the UK and back at the conclusion of the award that have been approved (the CSC will not cover the cost of flights for dependents or trips taken before the award is confirmed).
- Approved tuition costs: The CSC and the UK institution have an agreement that covers all costs; Scholars are not required to pay any portion of the tuition costs.
- Stipend (living allowance) of £1,347 per month or, for those attending universities in the London metropolitan area, £1,652 per month (rates indicated at current levels).
- If appropriate, a clothing allowance for warmth.
- Grant for study-related travel for the purpose of paying for domestic or international travel expenses.
- When permitted, a contribution is made towards the expense of conducting fieldwork abroad (the price of one round-trip ticket in economy).
- Airfare for a paid midterm visit to the scholar’s home country, unless they have already obtained a return ticket for fieldwork or have plans to claim spouse and/or child allowances during their scholarship.
Following are family allowances (rates quoted at current levels):
If a Scholar is travelling with their spouse but no children, they will get a spouse allowance of £290 per month for a maximum of nine months as long as they both reside at the same address in the UK (other restrictions apply if the spouse is not also receiving a scholarship).
If a Scholar is travelling with their spouse and children in the UK, they will receive a spouse allowance of £290 per month, a child allowance of £290 per month for the first child and a child allowance of $143 per month for the second and third children under the age of 16 (unless their spouse is also receiving a scholarship; other conditions apply).
kid allowance of £576.61 per month for the first kid and £143 per month for the second and third children under the age of sixteen if they are living with the Scholar at the same location in the UK but without their spouse.
Eligibility
Those interested in applying for this scholarship must:
- Be a citizen of, or having received refugee status from, a Commonwealth nation that qualifies, or being a British Protected Person.
- Occupy a permanent residence in a Commonwealth nation.
- Be able to begin academic courses in the UK by September 2024, the commencement of the UK academic year.
- Hold a first degree with a minimum upper second-class (2:1) honours grade by September 2024, or a lower second-class degree and an appropriate postgraduate degree (often a Master’s degree).
- Not be enrolled in a PhD programme or an MPhil that leads to a PhD before September or October 2024 in a UK university or in their home country.
- If not for this scholarship, be unable to pay to attend school in the UK.
- Have delivered the necessary supplementary materials in the required format.
Application
The deadline for Commonwealth PhD Scholarship applications for the school year 2024–2025 is on October 17, 2023, at 16:00 BST (15:00 GMT), applications must be received. Scholarship recipients must begin their studies in the UK in September or October 2024.
The CSC’s online application system must be used to submit applications.
Candidates must submit an application to a nominating agency in addition to the CSC.
For PhD scholarships, there are three different categories of nominating organisations:
The primary application method is through national nominating organisations.
Certain universities and university bodies have the authority to nominate their own academic staff.
a few charities and non-governmental organisations
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