Time for Canada to re-engage with Commonwealth Scholarships

Canada ought to return to its past leadership role in funding and offering the scholarships.

Former Privy Council clerk Kevin Lynch, Bank of England governor Mark Carney, and Cambridge University vice-chancellor Stephen Toope are all Canadian Commonwealth Scholar alumni. The Hill Times file photographs

Opinion

BY KEVIN GOHEEN

April 11, 2018

Commonwealth Scholarships are a prestigious international brand, well known and respected throughout the world. They help students with the cost of obtaining an advanced degree in a Commonwealth country other than their own. The Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom recently iss...

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