COMMONWEALTH SHARED SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME

This is different from the normal Commonwealth scholarship that each participating country nominates their citizen. For this scholarship, it is the participating University abroad that nominate candidate for the scholarship

This scholarship is mainly for Master's degree and your subjects of interest must be related to the economic, social and technological development of your home country.

You are expected to hold a first degree at either first class or upper second-class level. DFID and participating United Kingdom institutions will jointly meet the full costs of an award holder’s study in the United Kingdom including air fares to and from the United Kingdom.

APPLICATION AND SELECTION

Applications should be made directly to the institutions at which you wish to study. The sponsoring institutions will be the judges of academic calibre and will forward their nominations to the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission for its agreement.

UNITED KINGDOM UNIVERSITIES
There are many UK Universities that participate in this scholarship. Some of them are:
University of Wolverhampton www.wlv.ac.uk
University of Worcester www.worcester.ac.uk
University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk

For detail information and other UK Universities you can apply to,
Log on to www.dfid.gov.uk, click FUNDING SCHEMES at the left side menu.
Scroll down and under Funding for international students wishing to study
in the UK , click Shared Scholarship Scheme.
Under DFID Shared Scholarship Scheme, Click DFID COMMONWEALTH
SHARED SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME- PARTICIPATING INSTITUTE 2008. Is a
PDF file, you will get full details of the DFID Scholarship