Commonwealth Scholarships and Fellowships help citizens from one Commonwealth country pursue further education in another Commonwealth country. The subjects studied must be related to development issues. Between 200 and 230 scholarships are awarded each year.
The awards support academic excellence in recipient scholars with the aim of encouraging new research into development issues.
Most courses are at Masters or PhD level (running for one to three years). They are available for any development related subject. Students can study
The awards are managed by the Commonwealth Scholarships and Fellowship Commission. They are part of the UK’s contribution to the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP).
In the UK, funding for awards for developing countries comes from the Department for International Development (DFID). The Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills also fund scholarships to Australia, Bahamas, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Cyprus, Malta, New Zealand and Singapore.
DFID currently provides £12 million a year to support the CSFP awards. A further £2 million is provided by the FCO to fund students from the developed Commonwealth. In recent years, a number of individual universities have provided joint funding for individual awards.
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