Welcome to Chevening

Previous Pause Next

Welcome to Chevening

Applications for Chevening Scholarships and Fellowships are now closed. For information about the next round of awards, sign up to our newsletter.

Chevening is the UK Government’s international awards scheme aimed at developing global leaders. Funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and partner organisations, Chevening offers two types of award – Chevening Scholarships and Chevening Fellowships – the recipients of which are personally selected by British embassies and high commissions throughout the world.

Chevening offers a unique opportunity for future leaders and influencers from all over the world to develop professionally and academically, network extensively, experience UK culture, and build lasting positive relationships with the UK.

Applications for Chevening Awards to study in the UK in 2020/2021 will reopen in August 2019.

Subscribe to newsletter

Chevening
at 35

Latest tweets

Latest news

More news

Alumni award winner on a mission to challenge taboos and support women’s health

Chevening Alumnus Mamunur Rahman is a social entrepreneur who is working towards creating employment for women, tackling stigmas around women’s health, and ending period poverty in Bangladesh. He studied an MA in Gender and Development at the University of Sussex in 2006. Read more
Women's health; Social entrepreneurship; Alumni awards
BD

Strengthening European alumni networks at Poland conference

Harnessing Chevening networks to tackle climate change, promote economic prosperity, and protect media freedom ⁠— it seemed no regional or global challenge was beyond the ambitions of the dynamic Chevening Alumni who gathered in Warsaw in May to discuss the future of Europe, and an agenda for strengthening networks in a rapidly changing world. Read more
AL HR CZ DE HU IT XK MT MD MK PL PT RO RU RS GB
UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt at World Press Freedom Day celebrations in Ethiopia

New fellowship for African media professionals announced

Sixty media professionals from across Africa will have the opportunity to develop their knowledge, skills, and networks as part of a new Chevening Fellowship programme announced by UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.The Chevening Africa Media Freedom Fellowship will focus on promoting and protecting media freedom, and forms part of a global effort led by the UK and Canada to improve the safety of journalists. Read more
Foreign Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, fellowship, Ethiopia, World Press Freedom Day, Africa tour, new fellowship
ET

Media freedom comes under the spotlight at Chevening Conference

Scholars were urged to aid the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s media freedom campaign at the sixth annual Chevening Conference hosted at the University of Manchester on Friday, 12 April. Read more
BD GB