Master’s scholarship on offer for brightest postgrads

(CNS): Government officials have opened the application process for prestigious Chevening Scholarship Award, which gives the brightest Caymanian students interested in postgraduate study the chance to go to one of Britains’s leading universities. Candidates have until Friday 15 April to apply for the funding offered through the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Awards are normally for one-year masters programmes, but may also be considered for other courses of a minimum three months duration at any participating school. As the programme is intended for future leaders and decision-makers, successful applicants must demonstrate this level of potential and officials said there is strong competition for the limited number of scholarships on offer.

Over the past fifteen years, some 25 Caymanians have received Chevening scholarships, some of whom have returned to the Cayman Islands to take up employment in a number of Government Departments and elsewhere. The Chevening programme is administered locally by the Governor’s Office and the Education Council.

Further information on the Chevening scholarship programme can be found at www.Chevening.com. Further information is also available on the Governor’s Office website (www.ukincayman.fco.gov.uk).

Completed applications must be submitted by the Friday 15th April 2011 deadline. Please contact Melenie Mylrea at the Governor’s Office (+1 345 244 2431 or Melenie.Mylrea@fco.gov.uk) if you have any questions and for application forms.