KARACHI: Cambridge scholarships

Published September 27, 2002

KARACHI, Sept 26: The Cambridge Commonwealth Trust offers a number of scholarships to enable students of outstanding academic merit to pursue one year postgraduate courses of study at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with the Open Society Institute and the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

The last date for receipt of applications at the Trust is October 15, said a British Council statement on Thursday.

It said the following criteria for eligibility apply: citizens of Pakistan, normally resident here, aged between 23-35 years, who already hold (or expect to hold by the time of taking up the award) a degree equivalent to an upper second degree from a UK university, having passed an appropriate English language test by the time of taking up the award, preferably have not already spent a full academic year or more studying in a higher educational institution in the West, and who have a strong intention to return to Pakistan at the end of their scholarship period to continue their studies/ work.—APP

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