Applicants | Applicants' Referees | Nominating Agencies | Agency Advisers | Potential Supervisors
We want you to use the Electronic Application System (EAS) to complete your application for the 2011 Commonwealth Scholarship and Academic Staff Fellowship competitions. The EAS allows you to submit your application electronically and it allows you to print your application as hard-copy in PDF format.
You are advised to look at one or more of the step-by-step guides on this page that show how to use the EAS. There is also a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to help you. The forms have links to the ‘Notes for Candidates’ to help you as well.
If you have not already done so, you are requested to read the general information on the Scholarships and Academic Staff Fellowships Scheme on the main 'Apply' page before accessing the EAS.
Apart from completing the EAS, the important points for you as an candidate are:
- to contact your nominating agency in the first instance to check if they have any specific eligibility criteria and to check whether they will be processing your application electronically; if so, you will be able to follow the progress of your application.
- whether or not your Nominating Agency will be processing your application electronically, to print and send your application to your Nominating Agency
- to be patient when you have pressed the ‘submit’ button; traffic on the internet can mean it takes 3 minutes for your application to be transferred to your Nominating Agency
- to be patient when you download a PDF of your application as it can be 2 megabytes in size
- to let your referees know in advance that each will receive an email with a link to your application so that they can complete their references electronically. The email is generated as soon as you submit your application
- to let your potential supervisor(s) in the UK know in advance that each will receive an email with a link to your application asking for a supporting statement. This email too is generated as soon as you submit your application. Note that this does not apply to those who are applying to do a Taught Masters degree
This year the CSCUK will not consider any applications that have not been completed using the EAS. However, you need to find out from your Nominating Agency whether it wants to select candidates to nominate to CSCUK using the EAS or whether it has its own application procedure. There are 3 options available to Agencies:
- the Agency uses the EAS to select and nominate to CSCUK
- the Agency uses hard-copy of EAS applications to select and nominate to CSCUK
- the Agency selects using own application procedure and then asks selected candidates to complete the EAS
The similarities and differences between the 3 options are shown in the table:
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Agency uses EAS to select and nominate to CSCUK |
Agency uses
hard-copy of EAS applications to select and nominate to CSCUK |
Agency selects using own application procedure and then asks selected candidates to complete EAS |
Candidates’ deadline for completing EAS application and submitting to a
national Agency |
00:01 GMT
on 08-Dec-10 |
00:01 GMT
on 08-Dec-10 |
00:01 GMT
on 08-Dec-10 |
Agencies’ deadline for submitting nominated candidates to CSCUK |
00:01 GMT
on 22-Dec-10 |
00:01 GMT
on 22-Dec-10 |
00:01 GMT
on 22-Dec-10 |
Deadline for HEIs that nominate to a national Agency |
Determined by the national Agency |
Determined by the national Agency |
Determined by the national Agency |
Candidates’ deadline for completing EAS application and submitting to an HEI |
Determined by the HEI; the EAS has a minimum of 14 days before the HEI’s deadline for nominating to the national Agency |
Determined by the HEI |
Not applicable |
Agency sends list of selected candidates to CSCUK |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Candidates’ referees asked to complete references
on-line |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Candidates asked to send hard-copy of EAS application to Agency |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
References |
Visible to Agency in the EAS application |
Referees must send as
hard-copy to Agency |
Referees must send as
hard-copy to Agency |
Photograph |
Visible to Agency in the EAS application |
Candidates must send as hard-copy to Agency |
Candidates must send as hard-copy to Agency |
Birth Certificate and Transcripts |
Visible to Agency in the EAS application
(but not on the hard-copy) |
Candidates must send as hard-copy to Agency |
Candidates must send as hard-copy to Agency |
Notification of candidates whether or not they have been nominated to CSCUK |
Candidates can track the progress of their application on the EAS. Candidates not nominated to CSCUK automatically receive an email telling them so |
By Agency |
By Agency |
Agencies’ deadline for receipt of applications from candidates earlier than 00:01 GMT on 08-Dec-10 can be set in the EAS |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Agency can request that CSCUK runs Pre-selection screening criteria on its candidates |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Agency can seek on-line comments on an application from an external referee |
Yes |
No |
No |
Agency can enter comments on an application for CSCUK to see |
Yes |
No |
No |
Candidates for all CSC awards are strongly recommended to download and refer to one or more of the step-by-step Guides on this page that show how to use the EAS. There is also a list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) to supplement the Guides. Within the forms are links to the ‘Notes for Candidates’ to help you as well.
Taught Masters Guide shows applicants for Scholarships (Taught Masters) how to complete the application form
Doctoral Guide shows applicants for Scholarships (Doctoral) how to complete the application form
Split-site Guide shows applicants for Scholarships (Split-site) how to complete the application form
Clinical Training Guide shows applicants for Scholarships (Clinical Training) how to complete the application form
Academic Staff Fellowship Guide shows applicants for Academic Staff Fellowships how to complete the application form
Shared Scholarship Guide shows applicants for Shared Scholarships how to complete the application form
Distance Learning Scholarship Guide shows how applicants for Distance Learning Scholarships how to complete the application form
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for applicants
Nominating Agencies
Officially recognised Nominating Agencies can download the questionnaire to complete giving feedback to the Commission on using the EAS in 2011 here.
Assessment Guide shows Nominating Agencies how to assess applicants
Nominator & Adviser setup Guide shows Agency Contacts how to setup Nominators and Advisers for their Agency
Deadline & Quotas setup Guide shows how to set up a deadline for the receipt of applications and shows Nominating Agency 2 Contacts how to set up Quotas for Nominating Agency 1s
Bidding for Distance Learning Scholarships Guide shows Departments of UK Higher Education Institutions how to apply for funded places on Distance learning courses
Bidding for Shared Scholarships Guide showing UK Higher Education Institutions how to bid for the Shared Scholarship Scheme
Advisers
Advisers Guide shows Advisers of Nominating Agencies how to complete an assessment
Referees
Referees Guide shows Referees of applicants how to complete a reference
Potential Supervisors in UK Higher Education Institutions
Supervisors Guide shows potential Supervisors how to complete a Supporting Statement for an applicant
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Nominators
Please send comments about these guides to eas@cscuk.org.uk
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