Posted on 11 May 2012.
The CSC hosted a workshop on 16-18 March 2012 at Cumberland Lodge for around 45-50 representatives from scholarship providers, funders and NGOs, as well as current Commonwealth Scholars. The aim of the event was to share knowledge and experience of good practice in evaluating international scholarships and to identify the best methods for measuring impact. [...]
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Posted in Evaluation, Evaluation, Events, News
Posted on 25 November 2011. Tags: Welcome Programme
The CSC’s annual Welcome Programme for new Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows was held on 20-21 November 2011, at the University of Edinburgh. The programme ranged from briefings on the work of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and how Scholars and Fellows can get involved in the CSC Community, to a Question Time-style session on reshaping the [...]
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Posted in Events, News, Professional Networks
Posted on 27 September 2011. Tags: chapters
Four events have taken place for alumni in three cities in Australia and in Port of Spain, Trinidad recently. Dr John Kirkland, Executive Secretary of the CSC and Deputy Secretary General of the ACU, combined a conference in Australia with alumni events in Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney from 13-15 September. Future events are also planned [...]
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Posted in Alumni, Alumni, News
Posted on 01 July 2011.
An event for Commonwealth Scholars, organised by the Council for Education in the Commonwealth (CEC) with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), was held on 21 June 2011 in the CPA Room, Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament, London. The event provided Commonwealth Scholars with the opportunity to meet Parliamentarians from both the House of Lords and [...]
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Posted on 20 May 2011. Tags: governance
The ‘Commonwealth, Human Rights and Democracy’ conference was held on 11-13 March 2011 at Cumberland Lodge. Photos from the conference are up on Flickr Conference presentations Balancing democracies (opening keynote speech) – Professor Tim Unwin (Chair of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D and Professor of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London) Professor [...]
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Posted on 22 February 2011. Tags: chapters, Distance Learning
More than 50 alumni and current Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholars attended the inaugural meeting of the Kenyan alumni chapter in Nairobi on 21 February 2011. Other guests included Dr John Kirkland, Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, and representatives from the British Council and the Kenya Branch of the Royal Commonwealth Society. A committee [...]
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Posted in Alumni, Alumni, News