Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan

De Commonwealth Scholarship den Fellowship Plan (CSFP) be sam international programme wey Commonwealth governments dey offer scholarships den fellowships give citizens of oda Commonwealth countries.

Ein History[edit | edit source]

De plan originally dey cam from Canadian statesman Sidney Earle Smith for one speech wey he give for Montreal for 1 September 1958,^[1] wey dem establish am for 1959, for de first Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (CCEM) wey dem hold for Oxford, Great Britain. Since then, ova 25,000 menners get de awards, wey ova twenty countries host am.^[2] De CSFP be one of de main ways wey de Commonwealth countries dey do exchange programs.

Ein Organisation[edit | edit source]

No central body dey manage de CSFP. Instead, participation dey base for sam series of bilateral arrangements between home den host countries. Sam national nominating agency dey organize each country participation, wey ebe responsible say ego advertise awards wey be applicable give demma own country wey edey make nominations give host countries.

Notable past Commonwealth Scholars den Fellows dey include[edit | edit source]

Politics[edit | edit source]

Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of St. Lucia
George Brandis QC, 36th Attorney-General of Australia
Ross Cranston, Member of Parliament for Dudley North, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Bill English, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Babalola Borishade, Former Minister of Education, Aviation Nigeria
John Alexander Forrest, Member for Mallee, Australia
Leslie Gunawardana, Former Minister of Science, Sri Lanka
Hala Hameed, Maldivian Minister of State
Juma Athuman Kapuya, Minister of Labour, Employment and Youth Development
Kalombo Mwansa, Home Affairs Minister of Zambia
Satendra Nandan, Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Fiji
Rolph Payet, Seychellois Cabinet Minister
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Carlos Simons, Member, Interim Advisory Council, Turks and Caicos Islands
Abdullah Tarmugi, Singaporean politician and MP
Michael Tate, Minister for Justice, Australia

Judiciary[edit | edit source]

Shirani Bandaranayake, 43rd Chief Justice of Sri Lanka
Patrick Keane, Judge of de High Court of Australia
Ross Cranston, Former Solicitor General of de United Kingdom of Great Britain den Northern Ireland
George W. Kanyeihamba, Judge of de Supreme Court of Uganda
Professor Vijender Kumar, Professor of Family Law, NALSAR University of Law
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

Government[edit | edit source]

Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England
Michael Omolewa, Permanent Delegate and Ambassador to UNESCO, Nigeria
Carolyn McMaster, Canadian Deputy High Commissioner to New Zealand
Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen, Director General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency

Academia[edit | edit source]

B. K. Misra, Neurosurgeon
U. R. Ananthamurthy, Professor den writer, University of Mysore, Karnataka
Gunapala Amarasinghe, Professor of Ayurvedic Pediatrics, Institute of Indigenous Medicine, University of Colombo
Anisuzzaman, Emeritus Professor of Bengali, University of Dhaka
Richard Alexander Arnold, Professor of English, Alfaisal University wey dey Riyadh
Ishbel Campbell, British chemist researcher den lecturer. Hold one of de first Commonwealth fellowships wey dem dey take award shoddie.^[3]
Robert M. Carter, Director of Australia ein Secretariat for ce Ocean Drilling Program
Warrick Couch, astronomer, Director of ce Australian Astronomical Observatory den President of ce Australian Institute of Physics.
John Gallas, poet den educator
Professor Alan Robertson Gemmell Professor of Biology for Keele University (1950–1977)
Germaine Greer, Australian feminist author; former professor of English Literature den Comparative Studies for University of Warwick
Robert Gavin Hampson, Professor of English, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Charles Jago, President of ce University of Northern British Columbia
Karuppannan Jaishankar, Founder / Principal Director & Professor of Criminology, International Institute of Justice den Police Sciences, India
Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, poet, songwriter & professor at University of Dhaka
Will Kymlicka, Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy, Queen's University at Kingston
Nissim Mannathukkaren, Associate Professor, Dalhousie University Department of International Development Studies
Angus McIntosh, Forbes Professor of English Language and General Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Lynette Mitchell, Professor in Greek History and Politics, University of Exeter
Bridget Ogilvie, Director of de Wellcome Trust
Pratapaditya Pal, Curator-Emeritus den formerly, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Peng Tsu Ann, Professor of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
Raja Ramanna, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission of India
B. N. Suresh, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
Ghulam Mohammed Sheikh, Professor of Art, Baroda University
Lalji Singh, Director, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad
Sheung-Wai Tam, President Emeritus of De Open University of Hong Kong
Stephen Toope, President den Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia
Sunil Kumar Verma, Principal Scientist, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India
Jeremy Waldron, Professor of law den philosophy, New York University School of Law
Alexandra Walsham, Professor of Modern History, University of Cambridge
Fiona Williams, Professor of Social Policy, University of Leeds
Kamta Prasad, former professor of economics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Najma Akhtar, Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia

Journalists[edit | edit source]

Edward Greenspon, Editor-in-Chief, The Globe and Mail, Canada
Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist
Chandan Mitra, Editor den managing director of The Pioneer, New Delhi

Performing Arts[edit | edit source]

Walter Learning, Founder of Theatre New Brunswick
Shyamaprasad, Leading Indian (Malayalam) film Director, President, Amrita Television

Social Entrepreneurs[edit | edit source]

Kirthi Jayakumar, Gender den Peace activist, Founder of The Red Elephant Foundation

References[edit | edit source]

↑ E.A. Corbett, "Sidney Earle Smith", University of Toronto Press, 1961, pp 65-66
↑ "Loading..." www.csfp-online.org. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
↑ Rayner-Canham, Marelene F. (2008). Chemistry was their life : pioneering British women chemists, 1880-1949. Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. London: Imperial College Press. ISBN 978-1-86094-987-6. OCLC 665046168.

[1] E.A. Corbett, "Sidney Earle Smith", University of Toronto Press, 1961, pp 65-66

[2] "Loading..." www.csfp-online.org. Retrieved 28 May 2024.

[3] Rayner-Canham, Marelene F. (2008). Chemistry was their life : pioneering British women chemists, 1880-1949. Geoffrey Rayner-Canham. London: Imperial College Press. ISBN 978-1-86094-987-6. OCLC 665046168.

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