COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS PLAN (UK)Ph.D

COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS PLAN (UK)Ph.D

Commonwealth Scholarships tenable for higher studies/research/specialized training in the subjects mentioned below in the United Kingdom are offered to Indian Nationals. Fifty-five nominations are sent to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, out of those, twenty-two are for one-year or two-year Master Degree course and thirty-three are for three year Ph.D. course.

Age: The applicants will normally be accepted from those candidates who have graduated with a first class or Master's programme within the last ten years.

Level: These scholarships will be awarded for studies leading to either (a) One-year Master's or equivalent degree or one year of clinical training in Medicine or Dentistry, or b) a three-year doctoral or equivalent degree . Candidates who have already completed Ph.D. or about to complete it are unlikely to be considered.

Subject Fields: Medicine:

Cancer Research (including Cancer Epidemiology)
Cardiology
Gynecology
Medicine and
Dentistry

Engineering & Technology:

Computer Studies
Electronics
Environmental Studies
Remote Sensing Technology
Communication Engineering
Bio-technology/Biochemical Engineering and
Robotics (including Artificial Intelligence)

Science (Pure and Applied):

Mathematics
Molecular Biology
Physics and
Chemistry (including Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry)

Agriculture:

Animal Husbandry
Agronomy and
orestry

Humanities and Social Sciences:

History
Sociology
Management Studies
Fine Arts (including Western Painting, Art History, Graphic Design and Sculpture) and
Economics and
Philosophy

Minimum Qualifications and Experience required: The candidates must have completed tertiary education in English Medium.

For Master's Degree: One must have completed Bachelors Degree in one of the subject fields indicated above securing 55% or above in Humanities and Social Science group and 60% or above marks in Medicine, Engineering & Technology, Science and Agriculture group. Candidates should give one page academic justification for pursuing Master Degree course in U.K.

For Ph.D.: One must have completed Masters Degree in one of the subject fields indicated above securing 55% or above in Humanities and Social Science group and 60% or above in Medicine, Engineering and Technology, Science and Agriculture group with two years teaching research or practical experience after obtaining Post-graduate degree relating to the opted field or study as on 31 St October.

Candidates who wish to undertake postgraduate study in Business and/or Management should, before applying for a Commonwealth Scholarship, have taken the Graduate Management Admission Test (Princeton Test). Interested candidates may inquire with the G.M.A.T. Educational Testing Services, Box 966-R, Princeton, NJ 08541, U.S.A.

Before applying for these scholarships, candidates should ensure that they have cleared the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). Details of GRE can be obtained from Graduate Record Examination, Educational Testing Service, Box 955, Princeton, NJ 08541, U.S.A. Candidates in Art and Music should submit appropriate specimen work (slides, cassettes etc.) with their applications.

Value of Award: Student concessionaire or other approved air fare to the United Kingdom by the most direct and economical route and return on expiry of the Scholarship (the cost of journeys made before receipt of awards will not normally be reimbursed, nor can fares be paid for a Scholar's dependents)

Approved tuition and examination fees

A personal maintenance allowance at the rate of £507 per month for those studying at Institutions in the London Metropolitan area

A grant for books and apparatus of £339 in the first year of study and £204 for a subsequent full year and a grant towards the expenses of preparing a thesis or dissertation, where applicable.

A grant of expenses of approved travel within the U.K.

An initial clothing grant of £223 for most scholars on first arrival from tropical developing countries

Where a host institution has in advance declared and the Commission has accepted, the need or fieldwork outside the United Kingdom, a grant towards the cost of such fieldwork, which shall not normally exceed one economy or tourist class return fare to the fieldwork location. Scholars for whom fieldwork fares are provided to their home country shall not be entitled to a mid-term fare home.

For married scholars selected by the Commission for awards exceeding 12 months, a marriage allowance of £243 per month is payable provided that the husband and wife are residing at the same address in the United Kingdom. It is not paid when a husband or wife of the scholar is also in receipt of an award, or is in paid employment. For such married couples accompanied by their children a child allowance is payable (at the rate of £34 per month each) for the first, second and third child under the age of 16, provided they are residing with their parents.

A scholar who is unaccompanied by spouse but accompanied by children for whom he/she is legally responsible, shall receive the equivalent of the spouse's allowance for the first child, and child allowances for the second and third child, irrespective of the length of tenure of award.

Scholar's emoluments are not subject to United Kingdom income tax, but award holders and their spouses may be liable for the payment at least in part of any Council Tax levied by the local authority where they live.

Contact:

Further details

The Secretary
Ministry of Human Resource Development (Dept. of Education)
External Scholarships Division,
ES-3 Section, A.1/W.3 Curzon Road Barracks,
K.G. Marg, New Delhi 110001
Ph 3384501

Notification including format of application form is generally published in the Employment News and some other prominent national dailies.

Last date: 31st October, or any other specified date

COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS PLAN (UK)Ph.D.