IOE-COMMONWEALTH COMMISSION SCHOLARSHIPS

Commonwealth Shared Scholarships 2013/14: applications open (for Distance Scholarships see the information at the bottom of the page)

Education and International Development MA
Education, Gender and International Development MA
Education, Health Promotion and International Development MA
Educational Planning, Economics and International Development MA
Development Education MA

Commonwealth Distance Scholarships 2013/14 for East Africa

Education and International Development MA
Education, Gender and International Development MA
Education, Health Promotion and International Development MA
Educational Planning, Economics and International Development MA
• Two years of part-time study (a combination of distance learning and face to face modes)
• The first year and one term is spent studying at least two modules online in your home country
• This is followed by study at the IOE in London (January - March 2015) during which students complete the remaining modules
• Students then return home to complete their dissertation or report
• In total students usually undertake 4 modules and a dissertation

Aga Khan Foundation
East Africa Regional Office
Kenya

IOE-Commonwealth Commission Scholarships

These awards cover air fares, stipend and tuition. We are offering two such awards for 2013/14, for candidates from Commonwealth countries.

The programmes included in this scheme are:

Details of the first four programmes may be found here. The Development Education Masters details are here.

Please do not apply for these programmes from the course pages, if you want to apply for a scholarship. Details of how to apply for a scholarship are below.

Who can apply?

Candidates are normally expected to hold a first degree at either first class or upper second-class level. We will need to be able to confirm that candidates are sufficiently fluent in written and oral English to pursue their proposed studies immediately, as no pre-course English Language Teaching is available under these awards. Candidates who have already studied for one year or more in a developed country or who possess sufficient resources to self-fund are not eligible for an award.

You will be asked to certify in writing that you:

i) are a national of a Commonwealth developing country, and not at present living or studying in a developed country;

ii) have not undertaken studies lasting one year or more in a developed country;

iii) are yourself, or through your family, unable to pay to study in the United Kingdom;

iv) will return to your home country as soon as your award comes to an end. The commission will only consider requests to extend leave to remain in the UK post-award for those wishing to move from masters to PhD study. Strict conditions will apply.

How to apply

If you would like to apply for these awards, please use the dedicated UKPass application pathway here. Please do not use the application buttons on the masters programme pages. If you do this, your scholarship application will not be registered.

If you have not used UKPass before to make a postgraduate application, you will need to open an account. This is free. Clicking on the scholarship application linkwill take you to the relevant page.

Once you have successfully entered UKPass, select course P048222: Commonwealth Shared Scholarship.

Please email internationaloffice@ioe.ac.uk if you have any queries.

The closing date is Friday 15 March 2013.

The IOE is once again partnering with the Aga Khan Foundation in Kenya to offer 15 distance scholarships in the following programmes, for students from Kenya,Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda:

The awards have the following features:

The awards will be announced shortly by the Aga Khan Foundation in Kenya, and the application deadline will be in early April 2013. Please note that all applications for these awards must be made through the Aga Khan Foundation in Kenya, and not through the IOE or the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission.

For more information in the meantime, please contact: 

Tel: 00 254-20-223951

Email: akf.east-africa@akdn.org 

or contact the IOE at internationaloffice@ioe.ac.uk