Charles Unveils Cambridge Scholarships For Commonwealth Students

Prince Charles has launched a new project to help Commonwealth students study at Cambridge University.

He unveiled the new scholarships as he continued his tour of the Caribbean.

Local students will get funding to study topics like climate change, sustainability and the oceans at Cambridge University. 

The programme has been developed in partnership with the Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust, a charity, which the prince supports as patron, founded to support international students wanting to study at Cambridge.

Charles said: “I was keen to find a way of marking my 70th birthday last year as well of that of the Commonwealth this year by empowering talented young people from across our Commonwealth family of nations to address some of the most fundamental issues facing their countries and indeed our whole world.”

The prince studied at Trinity College in the city and in his debut at a Cambridge Union debate touched on one of the themes that would interest him in the years to come: people becoming creatures of technology and the pollution which could result.

Up to 20 scholarships will be offered over a three-year period for PhD and masters students from any Commonwealth nation.

The first recipients will begin their studies at the university during the 2019-20 academic year with the scholarship covering bother their fees and living expenses.

Helen Pennant, director of the Cambridge Trust, said: “I am delighted that the trust will be offering these important scholarships in the name of our patron, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales."