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Because access to further education, particularly post-graduate education, is linked with social mobility and racial wealth disparity, the scholarship (which is for post-graduate students) continues to attract criticism; however, the scholarship's recent partnership with the Atlantic Philanthropies is intended to help address those issues.
Candidate of Sciences (Candidatus scientiarum – CSc., replaced by common Ph.D. in the Czech Republic in 1998 and by PhD. in Slovakia in 1996); Doctor of philosophy (Philosophiae doctor – Ph.D. or PhD., awarded since 1998 and 1996, respectively; requires at least 3–5-year doctoral study and coursework of 120-180 Credits)
Today CAFF, held annually in October, is the longest running festival for African film in the UK. [73] Black History Month, first held in the UK in 1987, began to be celebrated in Cambridge in 2005. The Cambridge African Network (CAN) was founded in 2008. [74] CAN organizes events to bring together the African community in Cambridge. [75]
Financed primarily by the Oxford University Press, the Clarendon Fund was established by the Council of the University of Oxford in 2000 and launched in 2001. [1] The original aim of the Fund, as agreed by the council, was to "assist the best overseas graduate students who obtain places to study in the University", regardless of financial capability and to remove any barriers between the best ...
The award is among the most selective and prestigious awards offered to international students [2] [3] and scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic excellence and research potential. The Scheme is funded through the four UK higher education funding bodies (for England , Scotland , Wales and Northern Ireland ).
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 ]