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Ford fellowship for higher education
Ford Foundation announces the 2010 International Fellowship Programme for advancing higher education among the marginalised and excluded groups and communities with an objective to empower them. The deadline for submitting applications is December 15, 2009.
The Ford Foundation is a resource for innovative people and institutions worldwide. Its goals are to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, promote international cooperation and advance human achievement. This has been its purpose for more than half a century.
The International Fellowships Programme draws on this tradition and underscores the Foundation's belief that education enables people to improve their own lives as well as to assist others in the common pursuit of more equitable and just societies.
The Programme is especially designed to support candidates from groups that have historically lacked access to higher education.
Eligible candidates who belong to marginalised and excluded groups and communities such as Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, other backward classes, religious minorities, women, physically challenged and those with other kinds of socio-economic deprivation are encouraged to apply.
- Fellows will be chosen on the basis of their academic achievement as well as for their leadership potential and commitment to community service.
- Fellows may enrol in a master’s level programme and may pursue any academic discipline or field of study consistent with the interests and goals of the Ford Foundation (see IFP Eligible Fields of Study).
- IFP will provide support for a maximum of two years of formal Master’s degree.
- 40 fellowships are available for 2010.
- Once selected, Fellows may enrol in universities in any part of the world, including universities in India. IFP will provide university placement assistance.
- IFP will support Fellows to undertake appropriate short-term language study and training in research and computer skills prior to enrolment.
- Fellows who wish to study overseas will have to take TOEFL or IELTS language proficiency tests.
To download application form, please click here.
For further information, contact:
Vivek Mansukhani
Director
Ford Foundation International Fellowships Programme
12 Hailey Road,
New Delhi-110001
India
+91-11-23358893/ 94, 23328944
+91-11-23358893
ask@ifpsa.org
Source: Ford Foundation
