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We hear from Tomonori Sudo, Professor of Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, about how to attract finance to projects aimed at tackling the climate crisis.

Chevening Scholar Marie-Anne Gisèle N'Guessan Epse Assanvo had a dream of setting up a social library in Côte d’Ivoire to develop reading skills in children and young adults from underprivileged backgrounds.

One of the key qualities we look for in our Cheveners is strong leadership. Here’s how you can show this in your interview.

Gabriela Garcia and Leysi Rubio are two Cuban Chevening Alumni who undertook their scholarship in 2018. They are also the co-founders of ‘Our City, Our Space’, a Havana-based International Forum on sustainable living. Their shared passion for sustainability was cultivated while studying in the UK, and recently it brought together over 400 participants, including 36 […]

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke up that I was not happyErnest Hemingway Being in Africa is true happiness in this world. As a child I was inspired by books about the African continent and everything in it; our traditions, our landscape, even our football, and most of all our […]

With funding support from the Chevening Alumni Programme Fund (CAPF) and the British Embassy in Podgorica, the UK Alumni Association of Montenegro (MAUK) successfully held its 4th Innovation Forum in December 2021. Titled “Reshaping Montenegrin Cities with YOUth”. The 4th Innovation Forum was aimed at raising awareness on inclusive, participatory, and youth-led urban planning and […]

Zaim Mohzani, (Malaysia, 2019) has been president of Chevening Alumni Malaysia since completing his studies in 2020. Here he tells us about the inspiration that led to the CAM’s inaugural summit in November 2021.

Chevening Programme Officer Aldiane shares with you a few interesting activities happening in the UK throughout April.

Here’s how to explain your choice of study to a Chevening interview panel

In celebration of International Women’s Day, Chevening Scholars have been sharing the advice they wish they’d known when they younger about calling out gender bias, discrimination, and stereotyping.