1. This scheme is designed for working professionals who already have substantial experience in their professional fields and are looking for a short-term professional training programme to expand and consolidate their experience, knowledge and skills. These programmes provide an invaluable opportunity to Indian professionals to establish networks of contacts in the UK of direct value to their work and career development in India.

2. Applicants SHOULD NOT apply directly to the UK programme Providers. Simply complete the Chevening application.

3. Each scholarship covers the following:

(a) Full Programme fees
(b) Living expenses for the duration of the scholarship for a maximum period of 12 weeks
(c) Return airfare from India to UK
(d) UK Student Visa

Last date for submission of applications: 31 December 2008

The Gurukul Programme
Gurukul is a unique 12-week, advanced leadership programme, created by the renowned London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) specifically for India’s future leaders. It was launched in 1997 to mark 50 years of India’s independence. Each year, the Chevening Gurukul Scholarship Programme enables twelve exceptional Indian men and women to participate in an intensive exploration of the challenges of top leadership in a globalising world through a programme of academic studies, field visits and seminars, debates with practitioners, and individual projects of direct personal relevance.

The Chevening Gurukul Programme addresses the issues faced by leaders in all fields – “how to lead more effectively” – by encouraging the scholars to analyse changing ideas and practices of leadership and exploring the implications for Indian leaders. It provokes critical thinking and provides unique opportunities for scholars to test their own hypotheses with policy makers and practitioners as well as with academics and opinion leaders.

Aims of the Programme

• To deepen scholars’ understanding of the changing global context of leadership in all fields (the international system, national and local politics, business and finance, public administration, NGOs, the media and the law), of the leadership constraints and possibilities arising from economic, political and social tensions between local forces and global trends and of innovative practices of leadership, as exemplified by UK case studies;
• To enable scholars to acquire knowledge and understanding of contemporary Britain and its political, economic and cultural evolution;
• To hone leadership skills in communication, comparative analysis, team-building, networking, appraisal and self appraisal, and strategic vision;
• To encourage each scholar to re-assess his/her own career plan.

Programme Content
Intensive, high-level, inter-disciplinary study, debates with practitioners, guided/focused study visits and seminars and individual projects of professional relevance, involving significant contact with UK specialists. Throughout the 12 weeks, each scholar follows a Personal Development Plan with identified goals, under the guidance of an integrated supervision team including the Programme Director, the Core Course Chair, an LSE supervisor, and a professional mentor. The Plan includes work on a special project - an analysis of the strategy underlying an UK ‘success story’ – based on research and interviewing, and completed by drafting and presenting a report. The process gives each scholar the unique opportunity both to build a network of UK peers and to gain in-depth understanding of the UK. Project work is carried out throughout the twelve weeks, with time set aside during weeks 10 and 11 for completing research and drafting the reports; the core seminar series and related study visits and presentations fill weeks 1 to 9 and week 12.

The 10-week Core Seminar Series covers

• Leadership skills essential for the course: time management, analytic presentation, self-appraisal, team work.
• The globalising context of leadership: theoretical and empirical analyses of globalising trends, technological change, risk analysis, liberalisation.
• Emerging institutions for global governance and leadership: United Nations, World Trade Organisation, International Labour Organisation, World Bank, NATO, with a study visit to the WTO, UN, ILO in Geneva.
• Changing power structures: the rise of the global corporation, comparative growth of the BRICS economies, the EU as a trade power, with a study visit to EU institutions and NATO in Brussels.
• Minorities, new nationalisms and institutional leadership: nationalisms, devolution and federalism, with a study visit to the Parliament and Executive in Edinburgh.
• Case studies of successful leadership.
• Leadership in the state: from politics and administration to economics and law – privatisation, regulation, devolution, democratic rights, new public management and judicialisation of politics, with study visits to the Bank of England, Treasury, and a Regulatory Agency.
• Leadership in the firm: decision-making, corporate governance, research and expertise.
• Study visits: Unilever, Ford, HSBC, Marks and Spencer, Tata International, BP, and British Airways.
• Core leadership skills: negotiation, appraisal, innovation; case studies.
• Leadership issues and emerging global norms:
  - sustainable development; economics of climate change;
  - energy security;
  - corporate social responsibility;
  - transparency and control of corruption;
  - religious equality, tolerance and Islam;
   - gender roles and equality;
   - intellectual property rights.

About LSE
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a world class centre for its concentration of teaching and research across the full range of the social, political and economic sciences. Founded in 1895, LSE has an outstanding reputation for academic excellence. LSE is an unusual university. Few university institutions in the world are as international. The study of social, economic and political problems covers not only the UK and European Union, but also countries of every continent. From its foundation LSE has aimed to be a laboratory of the social sciences, a place where ideas are developed, analysed, evaluated and disseminated around the globe.
Thirteen Nobel Prize winners in economics, literature and peace have been either LSE staff or alumni: George Bernard Shaw (1925), Ralph Bunche (1950), Bertrand Russell (1950), Philip Noel-Baker (1959), Sir John Hicks (1972), Friedrich von Hayek (1974), James Meade (1977), Arthur Lewis (1979), Merton Miller (1990), Ronald Coase (1991), Amartya Sen (1998), Robert Mundell (1999) and George Akerlof (2001). The School has more than 70,000 registered alumni. Around 30 past or present heads of state have studied at LSE, and 30 members of the House of Commons and 34 members of the House of Lords have either studied or taught at LSE.

Number of Scholarships
Up to twelve (12)

Level and Duration
Advanced intensive training programme, including individual project work, of twelve (12) weeks

UK Institution
London School of Economics and Political Science. For university details please log on to: www.lse.ac.uk

Eligibility
Applicants for this programme should be outstanding professionals from any field, able to demonstrate leadership in their chosen field or profession (to be assessed from the personal statement provided with the application form and the references). Applicants must have at least five years of relevant work experience in their chosen field. They should also have excellent proficiency in English and be computer literate.

Programme Dates
12 weeks beginning late September 2009