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Education: Chevening Scholarships

Volume 715: debated on Tuesday 8 December 2009

Question

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To ask Her Majesty's Government how many Chevening Scholarships have been awarded in each country in central Asia; and what plans there are to increase the number [HL529]

The number of Chevening scholarships awarded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to countries in central Asia in 2008-09 and 2009-10 is as follows (the figures for 2009-10 are provisional as the British Council does not yet have nationality details for all partnership scheme scholars):

2008-09

2009-10

Kazakhstan

7

7

Kyrgyzstan

13

10

Tajikistan

9

10

Turkmenistan

2

5

Uzbekistan

9

9

There are no present plans to increase the number of awards offered to central Asian countries in 2010-11.