2013 The Rhodes Scholarship for the Applicants of Jamaica and the Commonwealth Caribbean, UK

Introduction

The Rhodes Trustees have instituted two (2) Rhodes Scholarships tenable at the University of 

Oxford to be awarded to candidates from the Commonwealth Caribbean as follows:

(a) The Jamaica Rhodes Scholarship, available to candidates from Jamaica only;

(b) The Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholarship, available to candidates from the 

Caribbean generally, excluding Jamaicans (but subject to  the Selection Committee’s 

discretion).

After election, a successful candidate has still, however, to gain admission to the University of  Oxford. There is no guarantee of admission and the award of the scholarship is not confirmed by the  Rhodes Trustees until the Scholar-Elect has been accepted by a Department/Faculty of the  University and by one of its Colleges or, in the case of the 2nd BA, by one of the Colleges. 

Scholarship Level

Postgraduate and DPhil

Eligibility

(a) One of three alternatives applies either:

(i) The candidate must be a citizen of one of those countries that have gained independence from Great Britain (Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, St. Kitts-Nevis); or

(ii) The candidate must be a Commonwealth Dependent Territories citizen of Montserrat,  Anguilla, the Turks and Caicos Islands, Cayman Islands or British Virgin Islands;

(iii) One of the candidate’s parents must have been domiciled and resident in one or more of these territories for at least five (5) years immediately preceding 1st January in the year of the candidature, or, in the event of both being dead, was domiciled and resident in  one of thee territories for at least five (5) years prior to his or her death.

The candidate must:

a) have been educated in one or more of the above territories for at least five (5) years between the ages of nine and twenty;

b) have passed his or her Nineteenth (19) birthday and not passed his or her Twenty-fifth (25th) birthday by 1st October 2013;

c) have undertaken academic training sufficiently advanced to assure the completion of a Bachelor’s Degree by 1st October, 2013.

Candidates with dual citizenship may not apply in more than one of the countries of which they are 

citizens

Deadline

30 September 2012

Application Method

Via Post

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