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The British High Commission in Yaounde- Cameroon, is announcing to the general public that the 2016\/2017 edition of the Cameroon Women’s Scholarship has now been launched.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Cameroon Women’s Scholarship targets women with strong leadership potential, who possess the academic excellence to pursue a Master’s degree, but face a significant financial barrier to continuing their studies.<\/p>\n
The Scholarship is funded by the British High Commission in Cameroon which also manages the scheme in partnership with the Cameroon Women’s Scholarship Alumni and the Cameroon Chevening Alumni Association.<\/p>\n
The British High Commission’s Cameroon Women’s Scholarship will award twenty (20) scholarships for candidates starting a master’s degree course at any recognized university in Cameroon for studies related to Commonwealth values and principles. The award is a lump sum of one million francs (FCFA 1 MILLION) and two mandatory leadership training for all laureates.<\/p>\n
The areas of studies in which candidates are sought for 2016-17 are as follows:<\/p>\n
Candidates are to be assessed against the following criteria:<\/p>\n
have the personal, intellectual and interpersonal qualities necessary for leadership in their home country<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
be motivated to make a career leading to a position of leadership in their own countries within 10 years of their Scholarship<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
be committed to networking to find global solutions to key development issues<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
be able to use their studies and experience to benefit themselves, their country and the FCO<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
be capable of successfully undertaking and completing their proposed course<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
NB: Application and personal statements MUST be in English Language irrespective of the language of instruction of the candidate and the school she will be attending.<\/p>\n
The Cameroon Women Scholarship is open to those who meet the following criteria:<\/p>\n
must have secured an admission for the 2015\/2016 academic year in any higher education institution of learning in Cameroon by 31st January 2016. Failure in securing admission by this date will lead to the withdrawal of scholarship.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
the start date of the applicants’ chosen course must fall within the first half of the 2016\/2017 academic year.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
must be a national of Cameroon<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
must hold an undergraduate degree (an equivalent of 3 – 4 years undergraduate studies) in any field with grade of at least a Second Class-upper (Hons)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
must have at least two (2) years work experience by 30 September 2016<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
There is no age limit for Cameroon Women’s Scholarship.<\/p>\n
To apply, provide the following:<\/p>\n
A completed scholarship application form (see below)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
A personal statement – a one-page statement\/essay about yourself, your leadership potential, accomplishments and career goals (maximum of 800 words.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
An updated CV (include contact details of two referees maximum of 2 pages using font 12 Times New Roman.) You will be disqualified if you do not stick to the guidance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
NB: Only the above three documents are needed at the first stage. Candidates shortlisted for interview will be required to submit copies of university level transcripts and all academic certificates.<\/p>\n
Submit your documents as an attachment to camwomenscholarship@gmail.com.<\/p>\n
You can only apply via email. Your three files should be named as follows:<\/p>\n
E.g.: candidate named Fouda Pauletta would have her files as:<\/p>\n
Application deadline: 30 November 2016<\/p>\n
Not following all the application guidelines will result to disqualification.<\/p>\n
Distributed by APO on behalf of British High Commission – Yaounde.<\/i> The British High Commission in Yaounde- Cameroon, is announcing to the general public that the 2016\/2017 edition of the Cameroon Women’s Scholarship has now been launched. The Cameroon Women’s Scholarship targets women with strong leadership potential, who possess the academic excellence to pursue a Master’s degree, but face a significant financial barrier to continuing their […]<\/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-9695","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\/9695","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=9695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9695\/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=9695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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