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In October 2018, the Chevening Scholarships Programme celebrated its 35th anniversary by awarding a total number of 1,800 scholarships from 160 countries for the 2018–19 school year. [8] Earlier that year, the number of Chevening alumni also hit the 50,000 mark. [9] In 2024, Chevening celebrated its 40th anniversary. [10]
George Weidenfeld, of Chelsea GBE, a distinguished publisher founded the Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme [6] at the Institute of Strategic Dialogue [7] in London. In 2014 the Weidenfeld-Hoffmann Trust was established, and an Endowment Fund was launched in 2015, in honour of Lord Weidenfeld's 95th Birthday.
The plan was originally proposed by Canadian statesman Sidney Earle Smith in a speech in Montreal on 1 September 1958 [1] and was established in 1959, at the first Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) held in Oxford, Great Britain.
The Millennium Bursary Program (defunct) The Millennium Excellence Award Program (defunct) British Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Chevening Scholarship: Commonwealth Scholarship: Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange: Young Professionals Exchange Program Young Vocationalists Exchange Program Daniel Trust Foundation: Daniel Trust Foundation ...
The Prosperity Fund – Supports economic development and reform in the UK's partner countries. [33] The Global Innovation Fund – Invests in evidence-based innovations with the potential to positively impact the lives of people living on less than $5 per day. [34] The FCDO also supports a number of academic funds: Chevening scholarships [35]
She has also received the Chevening Scholarship, Cambridge Trusts Scholarship, and the Marshall Memorial Fellowship of the German Marshal Fund of the United States. She was a guest on Al Jazeera, CBC Radio and Channel 4 Radio programs discussing the sale of citizenships and passports. [5] [6]
He is a 2015 Atlas Corps fellow and a mentor of the Tony Elumelu Foundation Program. [6] [7] [8] In 2019, Eyitayo was made a fellow of the Global Good fund. [9] He is also a Chevening alumnus. [10] Eyitayo is a web3 evangelist. His company, Utiva, has been accredited in the United Kingdom as an education and learning platform. [11]
Independent of but associated with the college, the Fellowship aims to support the work and ethos of the college in offering university-level education to disadvantaged adults in Britain. There is also a post graduate programme and an international section involving: International Labour and Trade Union Studies; Webb and Chevening Scholars.