Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship 2021-22 | Apply Now

For providing higher education and more development in research areas to the PhD students and other research candidates, the Commonwealth scholarships have been opened. The scholarship provides educational and research development assistance to the candidates working in the research field. This is a fully funded scholarship and this provides an example of good collaboration among the UK and other low income countries or Commonwealth Countries. The main focus is to provide educational facilities in the research field.

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The area of this commonwealth scholarship for six CSC development themes. The main area of interest are related to different fields which are as below:

1. Science and technology.
2. Strengthening health system and capacity.
3. Strengthening global peace, security and governance.
4. Strengthening reliance and response to crises.
5. Inclusion and opportunity

The scholarship provides fully faded facilities to students who have interest in the above fields. The main aim is to provide facilities and to encourage the students of low income countries to work and progress in research fields.

Uk provide educational and financial assistance to all students studying in doctoral programs while staying in the UK. Hence, this opportunity not only provides educational facilities, but also provides financial assistance to students  who want to stay in the UK during their doctoral program. This is the bright opportunity offered by the UK for PhD students around the globe.

Commonwealth Scholarship 2021-2022 holds all the basic educational facilities for research and development. 

Commonwealth split-site scholarships 2021-22 UK:

Eligible Countries:-

There are different countries which are eligible for this scholarship program and those countries can have their students enrolled in a PhD program with this scholarship.

The countries are:

1. Bangladesh
2. Belize
3. Botswana
4. Cameroon
5. Dominica
6. Eswatini
7. Fiji
8. Ghana
9. Grenada
10. Guyana
11. India
12. Jamaica
13. Kenya
14. Kiribati
15. Lesotho
16. Malawi
17. Malaysia
18. Mauritius
19. Montserrat
20. Mozambique
21. Namibia
22. Nauru
23. Nigeria
24. Pakistan
25. Papua New Guinea
26. Rwanda
27. St Helena
28. St Lucia
29. St Vincent and the Grenadines
30. Samoa
31. Sierra Leone
32. Solomon Islands
33. South Africa
34. Sri Lanka
35. Tanzania
36. The Gambia
37. Tonga
38. Tuvalu
39. Uganda
40. Zambia

There are almost 40 countries eligible to enroll in scholarship programs.

Benefits of the CommonWealth Scholarships 2021-22

There are different benefits for these scholarships programs and they provide many financial and educational benefits such as:

1. Full tuition will be free.
2. The scholar will receive a monthly stipend of about £1,116.
3. If the scholar is from the London Metropolitan area, then he deserves the stipend of £1369.
4. Return tickets will be provided to the scholars.
5. Scholars will be provided with student travel grants.
6. Allowance for warm clothing will be provided.
7. For parents who are single, widow or divorced, the first child allowance will be £476/month, and the second and third child will get an allowance of £118.

(for this allowance, the age of children must be under 16 years.)

Eligibility Criteria:

There is a set criteria for the scholars who want to enroll in the scholarship program.

1. The scholar must be a commonwealth country citizen.
2. He must be British-protected person.
3. The applicant can also apply who has refugee status in an eligible Commonwealth Country.
4. The applicant can also apply who has permanent residence in a commonwealth country.
5. At the time of confirmation of scholarship, the applicant must be enrolled in a PhD program in any known university of the Commonwealth Country.
6. The link collaboration is needed between the applicant’s host country and the UK’s university.
7. For confirmation of eligibility of the candidate, the supportive details must be provided by both the University’s professors.

Application Procedure 

There is a procedure for submission of applications for CommonWealth Scholarships.

1. The applicant must apply to the university program with funding agreement with a commonwealth scholarship country. The list of part-funding universities is given below:
2. The application is submitted directly to Commonwealth scholarship countries by using the CSC online application system.
3. The application that is not submitted via the application system will not be accepted.

Documents requirement:

There are some documents needed for enrollment:

1. Copy of passport or national ID which shows a clear picture and complete personal details of applicant.
2. Complete last attended educational details.
3. Supporting statement of the supervisor from the home country.
4. Supporting statement of the supervisor from Uk’s university.
5. A reference letter from another individual.

Application Deadline:

• All applications  submit by 17:00 (GMT) on 02 August 2021.
• Supporting documentation by 17:00 (GMT) on 23 August 2021