A blog that gives our Chevening scholars the opportunity to tell us about their Chevening Experience. The opinions presented in this blog are the opinions of the blog author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Chevening Scholarships programme or the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
16th November 2010 Chevening, UK
Blog 4 from Catherinne de la Torre from Peru, del 4 al 10 de octubre del 2010; Ya regrese. Desde un principio quiero advertirles que este ingreso será catártico. Recuerdan que la semana anterior les mencione que la semana había sido movida? Pues no tenia de lo que estaba diciendo. Esa semana fue un paseo […]
5th November 2010 Chevening, UK
I wanted to call this blog "the Clash and human rights" but Malaysian Chevening scholar Shazeera Zawawi wrote it so she gets to decide; The title of this piece of intellectual pursuit is a tribute to a close friend’s response to my recent announcement that I will be furthering my post graduate study in Applied […]
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2nd November 2010 Chevening, UK
El estilo LSE – the third blog from one of our 2 Chevening scholars and part-time bloggers, Rina Paredes. Siendo una total y completa novata en Europa y su sistema educativo, a poco más de un mes de iniciar mi maestría en LSE, puedo decir que estoy acostumbrándome al ritmo de estudios y al gran […]
2nd November 2010 Chevening, UK
Un registro más, qué importa…The second blog from Rina Paredes from Peru Finalmente instalada en Londres, hoy cumplo una semana en esta ciudad que nunca se cansará de sorprenderme. Luego de pasar dos semanas al norte, rodeada solo de angloparlantes, esta semana me instalé en la ciudad más cosmopolita del mundo y conocí mi casa […]
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25th October 2010 Chevening, UK
Lishia Erza, a recent Chevening alumnus from Indonesia, shares the findings of her dissertation. Lishia will write again shortly about next steps, and she will ask for your help; My project was about how genetic science promotes (or threatens) social justice in Britain. To give you a bit of a background, let’s start with a […]
22nd October 2010 Chevening, UK
The third blog from Catherinne de la Torre from Peru – Periodo: del 27 de setiembre al 02 de octubre del 2010 A diferencia de la semana anterior, esta resulto bastante más movida tanto por las inducciones de la universidad, del programa de maestría y de todos los servicios que la universidad ofrece; así como […]
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22nd October 2010 Chevening, UK
Catherinne de la Torre continues her blog; Periodo: 20 al 26 de setiembre del 2010 Esta semana inicio mucho más pausada que la anterior, sucede que nos encontrábamos muy cansados. Entre la preparación de un viaje de esta magnitud, que de por si demanda de mucha energía, y el proceso de aclimatación, estábamos agotados. De […]
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20th October 2010 Chevening, UK
The Centre for Social Justice & Human Rights (CSJHR) works to promote social justice and human rights in Nigeria. It was set up by Chevening alumnus Francis Moneke. Francis writes about the centre below; Poverty and human rights violations have become rampant in Nigeria due to pervasive corruption and impunity among those who exercise public […]
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15th October 2010 Chevening, UK
Water is an essential source of life. Let’s start today to use this rare resource of the planet more sensibly. We should treasure every drop of it when we have clean water from the tap conveniently everyday. Flo, Hong Kong, 1998 British Hyder Chevening Scholar in Engineering Geopolitics of water has affected Asia. India is […]
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15th October 2010 Chevening, UK
Women and children are badly affected by the absence of water and sanitation services; therefore women and children will get the most benefit from water and sanitation development program. Rini astute, Indonesia Water shortage is a serious problem that faces the Middle East and Palestine is no exception. In addition to the arid/semi arid climate, […]
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