Commonwealth Shared Scholarships, set up by DFID in 1986, represent a unique partnership between the United Kingdom government and UK Universities. Since
their inception more than 2,500* students from developing Commonwealth countries have been awarded Shared Scholarships. Without these awards they
would not otherwise have been able to benefit from UK higher education.
For 2010 the range of opportunities listed in the following pages is wide and will provide recipients of the Shared Scholarships with the skills and knowledge to
assist in the development of their home countries. We are delighted that over 50 UK universities have offered to support our scholarships by contributing the
stipend for the students from their own resources, or those which the university has been able to generate from elsewhere. Indeed it is the mark of UK
Universities’ commitment that the scheme receives many more bids each year than it has the resources to fulfil. This reflects the confidence of the Department for
International Development, which provides the government funding for the scheme, that higher education and scholarships in particular have a critical role to
play in influencing the development of some of the world’s poorest countries. We are pleased to see that this approach has been increasingly taken by other
international agencies.
Although the scheme is now managed by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, its success depends critically on the support of participating
universities, the Department for International Development and the students themselves. To all of these, we extend our grateful thanks and express the hope
that the 2010 intake will be one of the most successful ever.
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