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The DFID-funded Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity (CREATE) has been asked to nominate two suitable PhD candidates for the Commonwealth Scholarship scheme.

Since their inception in 1959, some 26,000 individuals have benefited from the award of Commonwealth Scholarships and Fellowships to pursue advanced academic study in other Commonwealth countries. About two thirds of awards have been tenable in the United Kingdom. The vast majority of award holders have returned to make a significant contribution to their home countries, in many cases at the highest level, making the award scheme one of the largest and most prestigious in the world.

Candidates for the 2010 scholarships are invited to submit an application to CREATE for one of two awards in the field of educational access:

• a doctoral degree, of up to three years duration (full-time based in the UK with field visit(s) to home country). This candidate should hold a university post in one of CREATE's partner or affiliate institutions and return to the post on completion.
• one year of research in the UK on a split-site basis, to aid in the completion of a PhD at the candidate's home institution. It is not a requirement that these candidates hold university posts. Split-site candidates should be registered at their home university (not the UK institution).

Candidates should be Commonwealth citizens from (or working in) India, Bangladesh, South Africa or Ghana.

Deadline: Completed application forms (with all necessary information) should be received by 30 November 2009.

• For more information about this opportunity please visit the CREATE website or read the Commonwealth Scholarship Information from CREATE
• Commonwealth Scholarships website
• Scholarships Prospectus 2010
• Project record for CREATE