From 1 April 2012, the British Council ceased to be the administrator of the Chevening Scholarships programme and will no longer be able to deal with Chevening enquiries. The FCO and the Association Commonwealth Universities (ACU) have set up an email contact point for the management of 2013/14 Chevening application process. For all enquiries please contact info@chevening.org – the new email gateway for Chevening enquiries

Those existing candidates who have been provisionally selected as a Chevening Scholar for the 2012/2013 academic year will be contacted by the new administrator.

For more information please refer to The Chevening Scholarships Secretariat at the ACU. Further information can also be found at www.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/what-we-do/scholarships/.

Warning regarding fraudulent offers in Kazakhstan!

It has come to our attention that an individual or organisation is attempting to commit fraud by making fraudulent offers of scholarships to Kazakh students. This has entailed students receiving fraudulent offers from an individual claiming to be from the University of Manchester as well as e-mails pretending to be from the FCO and British Council offering Chevening Scholarships. In a recent attempt to defraud a student, one applicant was offered a scholarship and asked to send funds to what was falsely claimed to be a British Council account.

Please note that all e-mail addresses at the University of Manchester end in the suffix manchester.ac.uk. British Council e-mail addresses end in the suffix britishcouncil.org. The University will never send you communications from a hotmail or g-mail account. The University will also never ask you to transfer any fee payments via the British Council or any other Kazakhstan-based organisation.

If you have any doubt as to whether a communication you have received is genuine, please contact: international@manchester.ac.uk so that our International Office can confirm the authenticity of the message.