Not to be confused with the Harkness Fellowship (previously known as the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship), a programme run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City.
The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) is an international programme under which Commonwealth governments offer scholarships and fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries.
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. Since then, over 25,000 individuals have held awards, hosted by over twenty countries.[2] The CSFP is one of the primary mechanisms of pan-Commonwealth exchange.
Organisation
There is no central body which manages the CSFP. Instead, participation is based on a series of bi-lateral arrangements between home and host countries. The participation of each country is organised by a national nominating agency, which is responsible for advertising awards applicable to their own country and making nominations to host countries.
In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which is the biggest contributor to the Plan, this process is managed by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in Britain, a non-departmental public body, and funded by the Department for International Development. Since 2008, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office no longer contributes financially to the plan[3] and the number and type of scholarships available for students from more developed Commonwealth countries (Australia, The Bahamas, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Cyprus, Malta, New Zealand, and Singapore) to study in Britain has been reduced.. Other countries, such as Australia, no longer offer scholarships as part of the CSFP.[4]
New reforms were developed to strategically align scholarships with mutual interests for business and innovation between Commonwealth nations. During the state visit of President Tony Tan to the UK in October 2014, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II announced that the Royal Commonwealth Society of Singapore would be re-established to promote the Commonwealth and to provide new Commonwealth Scholarships and Fellowships in Innovation for Singaporeans.[5] The first Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship for Innovation were presented in August 2017 to Joshua Cheong and Dr Khoo Hsien Hui by the Rt. Hon. Sajid Javid.[6]
Notable past Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows include
^"Fears over foreign student cuts". 20 March 2008.
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^"Reformed Royal Commonwealth Society of Singapore to support new Commonwealth Scholarships in innovation | Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK". cscuk.dfid.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
^"Commonwealth Scholarships Award Presentation - GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
^Rayner-Canham, Marelene F. (2008). Chemistry was their life : pioneering British women chemists, 1880-1949. Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. London: Imperial College Press. ISBN978-1-86094-987-6. OCLC 665046168.
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CSFP redirects here For the United States Department of Agriculture program see Commodity Supplemental Food Program For other uses see CSFP disambiguation Not to be confused with the Harkness Fellowship previously known as the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship a programme run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan CSFP is an international programme under which Commonwealth governments offer scholarships and fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries Contents 1 History 2 Organisation 3 Notable past Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows include 3 1 Politics 3 2 Judiciary 3 3 Government 3 4 Academia 3 5 Journalists 3 6 Performing Arts 3 7 Social Entrepreneurs 4 References 5 External linksHistory EditThe 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 Since then over 25 000 individuals have held awards hosted by over twenty countries 2 The CSFP is one of the primary mechanisms of pan Commonwealth exchange Organisation EditThere is no central body which manages the CSFP Instead participation is based on a series of bi lateral arrangements between home and host countries The participation of each country is organised by a national nominating agency which is responsible for advertising awards applicable to their own country and making nominations to host countries In the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which is the biggest contributor to the Plan this process is managed by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in Britain a non departmental public body and funded by the Department for International Development Since 2008 the Foreign and Commonwealth Office no longer contributes financially to the plan 3 and the number and type of scholarships available for students from more developed Commonwealth countries Australia The Bahamas Brunei Darussalam Canada Cyprus Malta New Zealand and Singapore to study in Britain has been reduced 1 Other countries such as Australia no longer offer scholarships as part of the CSFP 4 New reforms were developed to strategically align scholarships with mutual interests for business and innovation between Commonwealth nations During the state visit of President Tony Tan to the UK in October 2014 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II announced that the Royal Commonwealth Society of Singapore would be re established to promote the Commonwealth and to provide new Commonwealth Scholarships and Fellowships in Innovation for Singaporeans 5 The first Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship for Innovation were presented in August 2017 to Joshua Cheong and Dr Khoo Hsien Hui by the Rt Hon Sajid Javid 6 Notable past Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows include EditPolitics Edit Kenny Anthony Prime Minister of St Lucia George Brandis QC 36th Attorney General of Australia Ross Cranston Member of Parliament for Dudley North United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Bill English Prime Minister of New Zealand Babalola Borishade Former Minister of Education Aviation Nigeria John Alexander Forrest Member for Mallee Australia Leslie Gunawardana Former Minister of Science Sri Lanka Hala Hameed Maldivian Minister of State Juma Athuman Kapuya Minister of Labour Employment and Youth Development Kalombo Mwansa Home Affairs Minister of Zambia Satendra Nandan Minister of Health and Social Welfare Fiji Rolph Payet Seychellois Cabinet Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Carlos Simons Member Interim Advisory Council Turks and Caicos Islands Abdullah Tarmugi Singaporean politician and MP Michael Tate Minister for Justice AustraliaJudiciary Edit Shirani Bandaranayake 43rd Chief Justice of Sri Lanka Patrick Keane Judge of the High Court of Australia Ross Cranston Former Solicitor General of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland George W Kanyeihamba Judge of the Supreme Court of Uganda Professor Vijender Kumar Professor of Family Law NALSAR University of Law Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd Lord Chief Justice of England and WalesGovernment Edit Mark Carney Governor of the Bank of England Michael Omolewa Permanent Delegate and Ambassador to UNESCO Nigeria Carolyn McMaster Canadian Deputy High Commissioner to New Zealand Manumatavai Tupou Roosen Director General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries AgencyAcademia Edit B K Misra Neurosurgeon U R Ananthamurthy Professor and writer University of Mysore Karnataka Gunapala Amarasinghe Professor of Ayurvedic Pediatrics Institute of Indigenous Medicine University of Colombo Anisuzzaman Emeritus Professor of Bengali University of Dhaka Richard Alexander Arnold Professor of English Alfaisal University in Riyadh Ishbel Campbell British chemist researcher and lecturer Held one of the first Commonwealth fellowships awarded to a woman 7 Robert M Carter Director of Australia s Secretariat for the Ocean Drilling Program Warrick Couch astronomer Director of the Australian Astronomical Observatory and President of the Australian Institute of Physics John Gallas poet and educator Professor Alan Robertson Gemmell Professor of Biology at Keele University 1950 1977 Germaine Greer Australian feminist author former professor of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick Robert Gavin Hampson Professor of English Royal Holloway University of London Charles Jago President of the University of Northern British Columbia Karuppannan Jaishankar Professor of Criminology Raksha Shakti University India Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal poet songwriter amp professor at University of Dhaka Will Kymlicka Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy Queen s University at Kingston Nissim Mannathukkaren Associate Professor Dalhousie University Department of International Development Studies Angus McIntosh Forbes Professor of English Language and General Linguistics University of Edinburgh Lynette Mitchell Professor in Greek History and Politics University of Exeter Bridget Ogilvie Director of the Wellcome Trust Pratapaditya Pal Curator Emeritus and formerly Curator Los Angeles County Museum of Art Peng Tsu Ann Professor of Mathematics National University of Singapore Raja Ramanna chairman Atomic Energy Commission of India B N Suresh Director Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh Professor of Art Baroda University Lalji Singh Director Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad Sheung Wai Tam President Emeritus of The Open University of Hong Kong Stephen Toope President and Vice Chancellor of the University of British Columbia Sunil Kumar Verma Principal Scientist Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology India Jeremy Waldron Professor of law and philosophy New York University School of Law Alexandra Walsham Professor of Modern History University of Cambridge Fiona Williams Professor of Social Policy University of Leeds Kamta Prasad former professor of economics Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Najma Akhtar Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia IslamiaJournalists Edit Edward Greenspon Editor in Chief The Globe and Mail Canada Charles Krauthammer Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chandan Mitra Editor and managing director of The Pioneer New DelhiPerforming Arts Edit Walter Learning Founder of Theatre New Brunswick Shyamaprasad Leading Indian Malayalam film Director President Amrita TelevisionSocial Entrepreneurs Edit Kirthi Jayakumar Gender and Peace activist Founder of The Red Elephant FoundationReferences Edit E A Corbett Sidney Earle Smith University of Toronto Press 1961 pp 65 66 About CSFP Archived 8 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine Fears over foreign student cuts 20 March 2008 Developedcommonwealthscholarships Archived from the original on 29 June 2010 Retrieved 17 June 2010 Reformed Royal Commonwealth Society of Singapore to support new Commonwealth Scholarships in innovation Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK cscuk dfid gov uk Retrieved 30 December 2017 Commonwealth Scholarships Award Presentation GOV UK gov uk Retrieved 30 December 2017 Rayner Canham Marelene F 2008 Chemistry was their life pioneering British women chemists 1880 1949 Geoffrey Rayner Canham London Imperial College Press ISBN 978 1 86094 987 6 OCLC 665046168 External links EditCSFP website Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan amp oldid 1134962230, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
