{"id":35592,"date":"2019-06-07T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/yaounde-high-commissioner-hosts-reception-for-returning-chevening-scholars\/"},"modified":"2019-06-07T00:00:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:00:12","slug":"yaounde-high-commissioner-hosts-reception-for-returning-chevening-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/yaounde-high-commissioner-hosts-reception-for-returning-chevening-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaounde: High Commissioner hosts reception for returning Chevening scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/a63ea9657d0a79e.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/a63ea9657d0a79e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the British High Commission Yaounde sent 18 scholars to the UK to study for a year through the prestigious Chevening award. The 18 awards were made in courses covering the following areas: education, engineering, technology, public health, security, media, development, agriculture, governance and human rights. In total, there were 16 Cameroonians, 1 Chadian and 1 Gabonese.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the importance of education and especially studying in the UK, the British High Commissioner to Cameroon, Rowan Laxton quoted an African proverb that says &ldquo;If you think education is expensive, try ignorance&rdquo; , as he encouraged some prospective applicants invited for the reception to apply for the programme when the next application window opens in August 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chevening.org\/\" rel=\"external noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chevening Scholarships<\/a>&nbsp;are highly prestigious awards which underline the United Kingdom&rsquo;s commitment to promoting growth and prosperity through the education and development of Cameroon&rsquo;s future leaders. I would be honoured if you were to accept this invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Chevening Scholarships are the UK government&rsquo;s global scholarship programme, funded by the Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office and partner organisations. The programme makes awards to outstanding scholars with leadership potential from around the world to study postgraduate Master courses at UK universities.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of British High Commission &#8211; Yaounde.<\/i><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/yaounde-high-commissioner-hosts-reception-for-returning-chevening-scholars?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo In 2017, the British High Commission Yaounde sent 18 scholars to the UK to study for a year through the prestigious Chevening award. The 18 awards were made in courses covering the following areas: education, engineering, technology, public health, security, media, development, agriculture, governance and human rights. In total, there were 16 Cameroonians, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,377,257,254],"class_list":["post-35592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}