SCHOLARSHIPS

Chevening Scholarships

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Step 1: Go to 'Apply' page
Step 2: Apply for scholarship

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Step 3: Eligibility
To be eligible for a Chevening Scholarship
you must:

• Be a citizen of a Chevening-eligible
country – Egyptian
• Return to your country of citizenship
after your award has ended
• Have an undergraduate degree
• Have at least two years’ work
experience
• Apply to three different eligible UK
university courses
• Have an unconditional offer from one of
those choices by 12 July 2018
• Meet English language requirement by
12 July 2018

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Step 4: Register
Step 5: Personal details

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Step 6: Education

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Step 7: Work experience
Minimum requirements:
• Scholarships: 2 years (2,800 hours)

Eligible types of employment:

• Full-time
• Part-time
• Voluntary
• Paid/unpaid internships

Ineligible:
• Work experience accrued as part of
degree

Work experience calculator:

• hours x weeks x years
e.g. 35 hours x 40 weeks = 1,400 hours
Step 8: English language

• English language tests valid from

1 October 2015 onwards.
• UKVI – check with your university
• Deadline for uploading certificate:
12 July 2018
• Check university requirements *
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Step 9: UK universities
Requirements:
• Three different courses
• Full-time
• Start in autumn
(August/September)
• Masters’ qualification
• Unconditional offer by
12 July 2018

Ineligible
• Part-time
• Distance learning
• Less than nine months
• More than 12 months
• PhD or MPhil

Capping
• MBA courses capped at £18,000
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Progress tracker
Step 10: Leadership & influencing

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• Use clear examples to
support your answers

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Step 11: Networking

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• Think about how you
will build a global
professional network
and establish links in
the UK

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Step 12: Studying in the UK

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• Clearly explain how
your experience is
relevant to the
courses you have
chosen and how your
course choices will
allow to achieve your
career goals

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Step 13: Future Career Plans

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• Think about how your
career goals relate to
what the UK is doing
in your home country
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Step 14: Applicant declaration

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Step 15: Submit application

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Application centre

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 Top tips

• Be focussed
• Give specific and clear examples
• Make a draft
• Make it your own work, voice and ideas.
• Concentrate on your strengths.
• Be honest.
• Get someone to proofread your statement.
 Top tips – Don’t and Dos
The question requiring information about Leadership skills:

Don’t Do
Write essays on “What is a leader?” Demonstrate your leadership skills
through examples from your work
Define what you believed leadership to be experience

Describe your line management Write about why you are a good leader
responsibilities – Your routine work
Offer evidences of your own leadership
Write a list of your work duties qualities beyond your role and routine
work.
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The question requiring information about Networking skills:

Don’t Do
Write or refer only to your Facebook and Focused on what it could do for you and
Linked In accounts, or keeping in contact how you might contribute now or in the
with people you met whilst travelling via future to the Chevening network
email, Face Time or Skype
More relevant information to the
question and provide examples
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The question requiring information about Study in the UK:

Don’t Do
Not mentioning specific universities and or Carefully research and consider university
your chosen courses - less emphasis on course choice and provide a coherent
explaining your course and university choices. rationale for your choices.
Not demonstrate a clear understanding of the
department or institutions you had selected. Choice of three related courses and
explain why you choose these subjects
Provide unfocussed outline of your and how they relate to each other.
Study Plans and Career plans
Justifying why you need to study a
Choice of three unrelated courses with no particular subject, your own background
explanation as to why these subjects had been or field and its importance to your own
chosen or how they related to each other.
career or Egypt’s future.
Course choice not corresponding with previous
study or career plans.
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The question requiring information about Career Plan:
Don’t Do
Limit your career plan on ONLY how it Articulated how your own career development is
would impact you personally ( personal gains only) linked to the overall development of Egypt as a
country.
Write an unrealistic career plan
Be Realistic
Only mentioning a PhD as their ultimate career
plan and failing to show how a scholarship would Details of how you will reach your career goals.
affect your discipline, your career, Egypt and the The good applicants clearly defined what their
UK on a wider scale. plans were with a timeline and justification for
each step.
Answered inadequately with only a short
paragraph. Show how a scholarship would affect your
discipline, your career, Egypt and the UK on a
Not explaining your intention to return to your wider scale.
home country, as this would not meet the country
development aspect of the Chevening identify ways that your Chevening Scholarship
Scholarship’s objectives. would help you to achieve your goals.
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The question requiring information about Career Plan:
Don’t Do
Lack of drive and focus describe the benefits from an award in terms of
making that connection to the national
Unable to convey that sense of vision and development and societal impact.
transformation which an award might bring to
their future careers.

Describing the benefits from an award in terms of

promotions or of salary increases.

Lacking an awareness of the wider aims of the

Chevening programme and viewing the
programme just as a funding opportunity for study
in the UK.

Applicants failing to explore ways in which they

could further UK interests and contribute to wider
sector or home country developments.
Websites

For further information please visit:

www.chevening.org

www.chevening.org/apply

www.ielts.org

E-mail: [email protected]

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Thank You and Good Luck!

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