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Can we measure the impact of scholarships?

Posted by Ad Boeren at Apr 13, 2012 12:00 AM | Permalink

Filed under: Impact of Internationalisation, Development Cooperation

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Recently I participated in a seminar organised by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (CSC) in the United Kingdom on measuring the impact of international scholarships. In 2007 the Commission organised a similar event which focused on methods to measure the results of scholarship programmes through tracer studies. DFID, the major sponsor of the Commonwealth Scholarship Programme, wanted to see some hard evidence of the results of the scholarships that had been awarded over the years