Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence 2026-2027 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 7, 2025

Applications are open for the Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence 2026-2027. The Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence is the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s flagship fellowship for India and has run for greater than 20 years. The fellowship is geared toward younger excessive-flyers and mid-profession professionals from various backgrounds with sturdy and demonstrable management potential. The fellowship addresses points confronted by leaders in all fields and explores altering concepts and practices of management, wanting on the implications of globalisation for Indian leaders.

The fellowship is hosted by the University of Oxford throughout the Department of Politics and International Relations. The fellowship is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Programme Structure

The 12-week Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence on the University of Oxford begins from the premise that as an financial powerhouse of the worldwide financial system, a rising chief in science and know-how, and the world’s largest democracy, India is in a pivotal place to drive ahead an efficient and reliable institutional worldwide order to satisfy the rising challenges to international integration.

Every 12 months chosen Gurukul Fellows can be provided an intensive 12-week residential course on the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) on the University of Oxford to study and deal with these challenges by way of three basic and interlocking elements specializing in educational understanding, coverage relevance, and private improvement.

This modern programme will familiarise India’s future leaders with an understanding of the modern alternatives and challenges of world integration, the management expertise to play a number one function in assembly them, and the information to translate this into coverage and observe.

Gurukul Fellows can be uncovered to present points and themes impacting international management, together with:

• The economics of world integration: progress, commerce, regulation and deregulation
• The function of science and know-how: local weather change, the web, technological inter-connectedness, cyber safety
• International governance and authorities of the nation-state: the UN, WTO and commerce agreements, the European Union and Brexit
• Social challenges of and to international integration: migration, refugees, inequality and intolerance
• The new politics of help and opposition to international integration: nationalism and internationalism, safety and battle
• Personal improvement and management expertise

The Gurukul Fellowship consists of quite a few web site visits within the UK and a diverse cultural programme designed to combine Gurukul Fellows into the tutorial and cultural lifetime of the college and division. Throughout the programme, fellows will develop, analysis, and current a public coverage plan whereas constructing their skilled networks.

Benefits

Each fellowship consists of:

• Full programme charges
• Living bills for the period of the fellowship
• Return financial system airfare from India to the UK

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence you could:

• Be a citizen of India and at the moment stay within the nation.
• Return to your nation of citizenship on the finish of the interval of the fellowship.
• Have a postgraduate stage qualification or equal skilled coaching or work expertise in a related space on the time of application.
• Have no less than ten years’ work expertise previous to making use of.
• Be a mid-profession skilled with sturdy management potential in a variety of sectors together with state or central authorities, personal sector, media, and civil society.
• Have a very good working information of English to be assessed in your application type and if you’re invited to interview.
• Not maintain British or dual-British citizenship.
• Agree to stick to all related pointers, necessities, and expectations of the programme.
• Not be an worker, a former worker, or relative of an worker of His Majesty’s Government, or have been throughout the final two years from the opening of Chevening functions (together with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defense, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, or a sponsoring UK college.

Application

Ready to show your ambitions and experiences into lasting change? This is your probability!

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For extra data, go to Chevening Gurukul Fellowship.