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The Rhodes Scholarship has faced controversies since its inception, primarily concerning the exclusion of women and Black Africans. Initially, the scholarship was limited to male students with Commonwealth of Nations, Germany, and the United States, a restriction that only changed in 1977 following the passage of the Sex Discrimination Act ...
In 1963, Boston University graduate student John Willis became the African American to be selected for a Marshall Scholarship, which he used to study at the School of Oriental and African Studies. [17] Willis became a professor emeritus of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. [18]
The ORS Awards Scheme was set up by the Secretary of State for Education and Science in 1979 and launched in the 1980-1981 academic year, to attract international students to the United Kingdom to undertake doctoral-level research. The last full awards were given to students starting their studies in 2008 and the scholarship scheme ended that year.
The African-American anthropologist James Lowell Gibbs did graduate study in Cambridge in 1953-4. [34] By the 1950s and 1960s, some African schools had established recurring links with Cambridge colleges: King's College, Lagos, for example, sent several students to Downing College. [20]
South Africa Historian of South Africa and critic of colonial rule in Africa and the West Indies Karl von Müller: Oriel: 1903 Germany Historian John Behan: University of Melbourne: Hertford: 1904 Australia Lawyer and academic (University and Trinity Colleges) [1] Carl Brinkmann: Queen's: 1904 Germany German sociologist and economist [2] Robert ...
The selection criteria for Chevening Scholarship aim to identify "high-calibre graduates with the personal, intellectual and interpersonal qualities necessary for leadership". Specific selection criteria for Chevening Scholarships vary from country to country, and from year to year. In 2017/18, of 65,000 applicants, 1,650 scholarships were awarded.
The scholarship is extremely competitive with around 1.3% of applicants receiving an award in recent years. [1] The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation established the Gates Cambridge Scholarships in 2000 with a $210 million donation to support outstanding graduate students' study at the University of Cambridge. [2]
The Churchill Scholarship is awarded by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States to graduates of the more than one hundred colleges and universities invited to participate in the Churchill Scholarship Program, for the pursuit of research and study in the physical and natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, for one year at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge.