Eligibility Criteria of PhD Scholarship Scheme

1.                 Should not have obtained below 50% marks in their entire academic career (e.g SSC, HSC, BA/BSc, Masters etc)
2.         Should have obtained at least 60% or above marks in Masters (e.g. MA/ MSc or other 16 years of Masters Education) or in Professional degrees e.g. BE/BSc Engineering, MBBS, BDS, LLB, MBA or equivalent or equivalent relevant to their PhD studies.
3.      Be available to join the scholarship program in United Kingdom by September / October, 2012.
4.      Must hold a full-time university teaching post, which he/she will join back after completion of studies in UK. The application form must be forwarded by Vice Chancellor / Head of the University, where the applicant is employed.
5.      Applicants having completed M. Phil will be preferred.
6.      In the fields of medicine and dentistry, have qualified between 1^st October, 2002 and 30^th September, 2007.
7.      Providing evidence of suppor from a prospective supervisor at least one of their chosen institutions.
8.      For the fields of Medical and Dentistry, applicants are required to provide Academic IELTS (From AEO or British Council) score card by 2nd week of November 2011, with over all score of 7.0 and 7.0 in speaking and 6.0 in listening, reading and writing and,
9.      For the fields, other than Medical and Dentistry an overall score of 6.5 in Academic IELTS is required. The IELTS test should be taken after 1^st October 2011, hence you are strongly advised to get registered for the IELTS test, now. This is a mandatory condition without which no further processing is possible

Note:

 1.  Applicants must secure/confirm their admissions for the sesson starting September / October 2012 in ‘potential host university in the UK’. The outcome of all such communications should be reported to the HEC. The copy of confirmed UK Univeristy Admission letter should reach to HEC before 20th November, 2011. 

2.   Those Supervisors asking for Financial Details of the Scholarship. Send them the Prospectus of Commonwealth Scholarship in which Value of Award is mentioned in Detail at 3rd Page. Click the linkk mentioned below to see the Prospectus:

http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/prospectus-scholarships-2012.pdf

3.   Applicants must register for IELTS as soon as possible as due to load of IELTS applications in British Council, the applicants would not be able to provide IELTS score before 2oth November, 2011.

Selection is to be made on the basis of following criteria

Initially the shortlisting will be made the Commonwealth Commission UK (CSCUK) through EAS. Later HEC will then nominate the applicants from the pool of the applicants shortlisted by CSCUK.

The academic record.

1. Potential of the candidate.
2. The quality of the proposal.
3. Development impact of work proposed in Pakistan.  

Details and Duration of PhD Scholarship Program

 Awards are tenable at any approved UK University or Higher Education institution for skill updating research and academic collaboration, etc, for a period of twelve (12) to thirty six (36) months, only.  The list of approved UK universities is available at CSC website: http://bit.ly/cscuk-uk-universities