Chevening Scholarships enables outstanding emerging leaders from all over the world that have ambition and a passion for influencing positive change in their home countries to continue their master degree careers in United Kingdom. This scholarships are fully funded to study for one-year master’s degrees at UK universities.
Chevening Scholarships are the UK’s government scholarship program that
offers full financial support for future leaders to study any eligible master’s degree at any UK university. This scholarship is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and partner organizations. After studying for one year, successful applicants are required to return to their home countries and stay for a minimum of two years.
Successful Chevening applicants come from a diverse range of countries and backgrounds. Wherein at the end of the scholarship, succesful applicants will join the diverse community of over 50,000 global alumni. All demonstrate with passion, vision and skills needed to shape a better world, surely you will return home equipped with the knowledge and networks to bring your ideas to life and thrive in your career.
Scholarships Benefits
Successful Chevening Scholarships applicants are entitled to the following benefits:
- University tuition fees
- A monthly stipend
- Travel costs to and from the UK
- An arrival allowance
- A homeward departure allowance
- The cost of one visa application
- A travel grant to attend Chevening events in the UK
Required Documents and Deadlines
All Chevening applicants must submit their education documents, references, and one unconditional UK university offer. The deadlines for these required documents are as follows:
- August 3, 2021 (Applications Opens)
- November 2, 2021 (Applications Close)
- November 3, 2021 (Applications are sifted against eligibility criteria)
- Mid-November to December 2021 (Reading Committee Assessments)
- Early to Mid-February 2022 (Applicants Shortlisted for interviews)
- February to Late-April 2022 (References and education documents deadline)
- February 28 to April 29, 2022 (Interviews take place)
- From Early June 2022 (Results)
- July 14, 2022 (Offer Deadline)
- September/October 2022 (Studies begin in the UK)
Apply if you meet the eligibility criteria and other requirements. Gender, age (there is no upper age limit), sexual orientation, religion, marriage or parenthood status, caste, class, or other attributes do not matter to Chevening Scholarship.
What matters is the application that demonstrates your: (1) Courses; (2) References; (3) Work Experience; and (4) Eligibility, and that you are capable of excelling on an intense master’s course in the UK.
Courses
Applicants must select three different master’s courses at the same institution or three similar courses at up to three different universities. However, Chevening recommend to select three similar courses at three different universities to increase the likelihood that you will gain entry into one of them.
Choose your three courses carefully as you will not be able to change your course choices after submitting your application unless you are granted permission to do so at the interview stage. This also provides the assessors with a clearer picture of your career goals and they may suggest your second or third course choice as a more suitable option for a Chevening Award.
You will need to apply separately to your selected courses directly via the university. Please apply as soon as possible to ensure you get a place. To be awarded a scholarship, you must get an unconditional offer for one of your course choices by the deadline in the application timeline for your application year.
In order to be eligible, the courses you choose must be full-time, and:
- Start in the autumn term (usually September/October)
- Taught master’s (i.e. not research-focused MRes programmes)
- Lead to a master’s degree qualification
- Based in the UK
Courses cannot be:
- Part-time
- Distance learning
- Less than nine months in duration
- More than 12 months in duration
- PhD or DPhil
- Taught with more than one month of study outside the UK
- Use our course finder to browse eligible master’s degrees at universities across the UK.
References
Applicants must supply the names of two referees when they submit their application. You need to choose the right people as references serves as an integral part of Chevening’s selection process.
If your application is progressed to the next stage of the process, you will be required to upload two reference letters to the online application system by the relevant deadline. It is the applicant’s responsibility to obtain and upload references on behalf of referees. Take note that Chevening will not contact your referees to complete or upload references.
Work Experience
Applicants without the required level of work experience are unable to submit their application.
Applicants must ensure that they meet the minimum of at least two years of work experience requirement for the scholarship before submitting their Chevening application.
The types of work experience that are eligible for Chevening Scholarship can include:
- Full-time employment
- Part-time employment
- Voluntary Work
- Paid or unpaid interships
Eligibility
It is important for the applicants to check if they meet the eligibility criteria before starting the application. Note that ineligible applications will be rejected.
To be eligible for a Chevening Scholarship you must:
- Be a citizen of a Chevening-eligible country or territory (Philippines is included).
- Return to your country of citizenship for a minimum of two years after your award has ended.
- Have completed all components of an undergraduate degree that will enable you to gain entry onto a postgraduate programme at a UK university by the time you submit your application. This is typically equivalent to an upper second-class 2:1 honours degree in the UK but may be different depending on your course and university choice.
- Have at least two years (equivalent to 2,800 hours) of work experience.
- Apply to three different eligible UK university courses and have received an unconditional offer from one of these choices by 14 July 2022.
You are not eligible for a Chevening Scholarship if you:
- Hold British or dual British citizenship (unless you are a citizen of a British Overseas Territory or hold BN(O) and are applying from Hong Kong).
- Hold refugee status in a non-Chevening eligible country. Applicants who are citizens of a Chevening-eligible country and who hold refugee status in a Chevening-eligible country are eligible for a scholarship.
- Are an employee, a former employee, or relative* of an employee of Her Majesty’s Government, or have been within the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, a sponsoring UK university, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
- Employees, former employees, or relatives* of an employee of Chevening Partner organisations are eligible to apply, but if the employment took place within the last two years, you cannot receive a Chevening Partner Award from the organisation from which you work, previously worked, or are affiliated with through relatives.
- Have previously studied in the UK with funding from a UK Government-funded scholarship.
Selection Updates
The process of selecting Chevening Scholars takes a minimum of eight months from the application deadline to when applicants are conditionally selected for an award. Applicants must provide their active email account as updates about application status at each step of the selection process will be updated using the said platform. Applicants can also log in using their registration details to check their status on the online application system.
Application Deadline
Application documents must be submitted at https://www.chevening.org/scholarship/philippines/ on or before 02 November 2021.
Source:Chevening