Chevning
is a British Government’s prestigious scholarship funded by the Foreign &
Commonwealth Office (FCO) and other partner organizations to sponsor study
master degree in UK. This scholarship is mainly aiming to select potential
global leaders around the globe. It is a full funded award which covers full
tuition fee, living expense, travel cost etc.
Time for Application: Basically
Chevening secretariat invites application in August each year and offers about
1800 award all over the world of which Bangladesh normally gets 12-16. This
year their application portal opens on 7 August
and will continue till 7 November.
Eligibility Criteria:
To be competent for a Chevening scholarship the
applicant must be a citizen of Bangladesh but not
having dual citizenship with the UK; having at least a bachelor degree by which
one can get admit into a UK university; have at least two years of work
experience which is equivalent to 2800 hours in UK regardless of paid or unpaid
work, voluntary service or internship but not done in partial fulfillment of the
degree requirement. The applicant also needs a score of on an average 6.5 but
not less than 5.5 in any module in IELTS. However, Chevening gives the
opportunity to prove the IELTS result even after conditional selection for the
scholarship, the deadline of which is 12 July 2018.
In addition, the applicant has to
choice either three different courses or similar course at three universities
from the list provided by Chevening portal. It is the duty of the applicant to
get unconditional offer letter by 12 July 2018 from one of his/her desired
university to get the final award. Nevertheless, universities are normally sent
an unconditional offer letter after showing them the conditional selection
letter from Chevening secretariat without any fees. But you have to contact
with the universities early and universities are mainly focusing on previous
academic record and efficiency on English language whereas some may ask for
motivation letter. Apart from these, the applicant will be asked to produce two
recommendation letters after being primarily selected for interview stage. The
recommendation letters may be either academic or professional or both. But as
Chevening is looking for leadership skill, hence you have to discuss with your
referees about your strength and demand of Chevening as well and request them
to put some illustrations of your skills. However, it has a significant
condition that the awardee will stay in his/her country for a period of minimum
two years after completion of study.
Ineligibility:
If
one is an employee or a former employee or relative of an employee of British
Government, the British Council or a staff member of the Association of
Commonwealth Universities, then s/he will be excluded automatically during the
selection process. However, employees, former employees or relatives of an
employee of Chevening partner organizations are still eligible to apply.
Nevertheless, previous UK degree will not exclude anybody unless s/he got any
UK government funded grant earlier.
What
is essential: Indeed a brilliant academic record or a
degree from a reputed public university are not essential to secure this
scholarship rather moderately good academic result either from public or
private university may bring success if you have a firm vision about your
future career plan, leadership and influence skills, networking skill,
confident about your potentiality and can speak and write in English well. In
fact Chevening is looking for all these qualities. To demonstrate your skills
exhaustively into the application form, you need to write four essays about
these. Each essay is consisting of 500 words. You should put focus on what they
actually want to know about your leadership and influential skills, networking
skill, future plan, relevancy of your intended study with previous education
and career etc. instead of looking into another one’s essay. Putting some real
life instances would definitely strengthen your write up. You must be honest in
highlighting your strength and weakness as well. Specifically highlight on the
development goals of UK and Bangladesh and the relevancy of your previous
education and profession with your intended study in UK. These are really
significant to minimize the distance between your dream and reality to achieve
the award.
Hence this is high time to think about
Chevening scholarship who meets the eligibility criteria and let’s have a try
to obtain a prestigious degree from a globally reputed university.
For details: www.chevening.org
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