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Falkland Islands resident off to Oxford University with a Chevening scholarship
A Falkland Islands resident is off to the University of Oxford later this year, after being announced as the Falkland Islands' newest Chevening Scholar. Clare Cockwell has been offered a full scholarship under the UK Government's Chevening programme to study towards an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management at Hertford College. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnd good luck to you Clare Cockwell
Aug 27th, 2014 - 10:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0you deserve it,
good luck..
1 Briton
Aug 28th, 2014 - 03:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Congratulations Mr. Briton, you are probably paying for it.
Congratulations! What a fantastic choice to study at.
Aug 28th, 2014 - 04:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2
Aug 28th, 2014 - 07:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hey, we are paying for countless thousands of Bulgarians and Romanians at the moment. This lady I am happy to support.
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Aug 28th, 2014 - 08:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Among the hundreds of Argentinians who have benefited with a Chevening scholarship was a well known figure Jorge Milton Capitanich in 1996.
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Aug 28th, 2014 - 09:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Paying for exceptional people from outside the UK to come and study at our Universities (second only to the Us, which is 5 times bigger) is something I'm proud that the UK supports.
Though then again, I'm biased as I teach in a University and have in recent history taught at least one Chevening scholar.
i thought she was going to compete in a concours de beauté
Aug 28th, 2014 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7
Aug 28th, 2014 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No she ain't no beauty, but she has grown up in the wealthiest place in South America and is supported by a country with the fastest growing economy in the western world.
How are things in Argentine right now, very poor and very ugly I guess.
@ 8 Britworker
Aug 28th, 2014 - 01:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“How are things in Argentine right now, very poor and very ugly I guess.”
How would Polly know, he's never known anything good in The Dark Country.
Still, it's always someone else who is to blame.
Congratulations Mr. Briton, you are probably paying for it.
Aug 28th, 2014 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0says--2 Marcos Alejandro
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Jealousy and envy,
Still, what do you argies get from us-what are British taxpayers giving argentina ????
BRITISH taxpayers have helped to fund £452million in aid to Argentina — despite its threat to the Falklands.
MPs were furious last night after learning the Government has ignored US pleas to halt support for the sabre-rattling country
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4154362/Britain-funds-450m-aid-to-Argentina.html
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Argie bargy: Voters call on David Cameron to stop British aid to Argentina
The UK has handed Argentina £225million as part of international loans in the past 20 years, The Sunday People reports
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4154362/Britain-funds-450m-aid-to-Argentina.html
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What do you get from uncle sam ?
List of countries by foreign aid received
Argentina
$83.7 millions of US dollars[1]
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4154362/Britain-funds-450m-aid-to-Argentina.html
pot –kettle=black..
@7 jajajaja
Aug 29th, 2014 - 03:17 am - Link - Report abuse 010 Briton
“BRITISH taxpayers have helped to fund £452million in aid to Argentina..”
Thank you Mr. Briton....and congratulations again because you are probably paying for that too.
Britain can afford it.
Aug 29th, 2014 - 05:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Seems Argentina has to crank up the printers to pay for anything these days. Even with all these handouts from the UK, Argentina still can't balance the budget.
No growth
Tanking currency
Sky high inflation
It is Argentineans that will pay for that economic mix, no one else.
#11
Aug 29th, 2014 - 07:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0While many posters here are unhappy about giving money to a bellicose and un-remorseful Argentina our government identifies that Argentina is in dire need of humanitarian assistance.
How does it feel to know that the nation you hate so much, and which your country launched a war of aggression and expansion against, provides so much to Argentina. This all just demonstrates that the UK is a grown up country unlike the whining little brat of Argentina.
Ah, another example of a 'Falkland' Islander getting a nice free education at the expense of my (UK) government. Unfortunately though, whilst the self-righteous spongers in the 'Falklands' get free this and free that, us lot in England have to PAY for our higher education. Perhaps if the UK taxpayer stopped sending a total of £71m a year to these blasted islands we would be able to receive a bit more public spending on the UK.
Aug 29th, 2014 - 10:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 14 EnglishNOTBritish
Aug 29th, 2014 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, I don't believe you are English, though you may be British.
I have never seen such a parsimonious or inverted perspective from anyone English.
Do you have your head up your rectum?
No, I think you may be an argie and if you are not you should be, you would feel perfectly at home there. I suggest you bugger off and join the losers for you are most certainly one yourself.
@14 EnglishNOT British
Aug 29th, 2014 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0” another example of a 'Falkland' Islander getting a nice free education at the expense of my (UK) government.”
As FIG pays for its people's higher education in the UK, from Falkland Islander (not UK) taxpayers, what EXACTLY do you mean by 'another example'????
The Chevening scholarships usually help South American scholars, so hopefully you will be requesting the UK government to withdraw all aid money from South America which far exceeds the money spend on Falkland Islands defence-directly attributable to Argentina that still owes the UK £millions from years ago.
Why don't you insist that HMG gets back the money that Argentina has owed the British Taxpayer for years?
Why not insist that the Argentines pay £billions of war reparations to the British taxpayer to help our education costs?
“ Perhaps if the UK taxpayer stopped sending a total of £71m a year to these blasted islands we would be able to receive a bit more public spending on the UK.”
What about the £millions of taxes that are paid to the UK government as a result of British firms exporting to the Islands?
What about the income tax the servicemen that serve in the Falkland Islands pay to the British exchequer?
I have a better idea. If the UK stopped sending £50 million PER DAY to the EU, I suggest this would have a larger impact on English Higher Education than your £71 million which (sorry to disappoint) will make F. A. difference to HMG's finances.
“I have a better idea. If the UK stopped sending £50 million PER DAY to the EU..blablabla...”
Aug 29th, 2014 - 04:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the uk sending 50 million pounds to the eu?
lol
the uk owes trillions of pound to the eu.
they are the most indebted nation in the world after the u.s..
all they send to the eu and the rest of the world are unpaid bills
13 inthegutter
Aug 29th, 2014 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't hate your nation nor I supported the war of a dictatorship supported by your own UK government by the way, I just want the British government out of my country(Malvinas).
About “ UK is a grown up country ”, I see that with jihad John and the scandal in Rotherham.
#17
Aug 29th, 2014 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're just not worth it. You repeat the same crap day after day with no ability to reason your argument.
#18
Except that the Falklands by no stretch of the imagination can be considered Argentine. Even if the UK “stole” them from Argentina in 1832 (which they didn't) after 7 generations of continuous habitation they rightly belong to the Islanders.
Are you seriously suggesting we should roll back all territorial acquisitions (prior to the League of Nations Charter there was no legal prohibition against territorial expansion through warfare) to the 1830s?
@ 15 & 16,
Aug 30th, 2014 - 03:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah, - Wonder which one of the RG trolls ENB is?
@17
Aug 30th, 2014 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“the uk owes trillions of pound to the eu”
In that case we do well to be a net contributor of funds to the EU, and one of the highest contributors while countries like Spain are also in the sh1t but take more from the EU than they put in.
So seeing as the UK are so deeply in debt, perhaps you can explain why our international aid budget is one of the largest in the world?
Don't see Argentina helping much when there is a worldwide crisis, because you do not help the world's poor or those in a crisis apart from perhaps Chile?
21
Aug 30th, 2014 - 05:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0not a surprise that another naive, deluded, brainwashed islander thinks the uk is like the paradise du planète.
the uk owes €316.6 bn to spanish banks, while spain owes just €74.9 bn to british banks.
that data is from 2011.
now the situation is way worse for the uk.
and, finally, the uk does not help anybody but themselves.
ask the iraqi or the afghans
as always, Lady Paulina of Downton-on-her-Knees only shows up on British threads spouting the same discredited rubbish as before.
Aug 30th, 2014 - 08:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Obviously fixated with what he secretly dreams of becoming. No understanding of international finance and comes in @7 with a snide attack on the appearance of this intelligent young lady who has been offered a FULL SCHOLARSHIP.
So the college will be paying for it as they believe she will be of benefit to them. A mutally beneficial course of action.
All other considerations of cost are therefore null.
Well Done Clare! many people are proud of you. Ignore the jealous haters such as paulcedron who I doubt has been granted a scholarship to anything but The Argentine School for The Art of Turd-Polishing.
Apparently he is still working on himself....... could be a while now....
ms. ilsen
Aug 30th, 2014 - 11:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0always discrediting argentine posters with insults and rants.
shame on you.
clearly you are the typical product of the education system of the islets.
what did you learn in that rural school, apart of shearing sheep?
paul ego fusionado:
Aug 31st, 2014 - 12:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Do you really believe I am a Falklander Islander? As I have said before, if so, I would proudly announce it, as these noble people do. Have you read any of my posts on other topics? It would be quite clear that I am British with Venezuelan interests, and have much experience of Latin America.
As for “always discrediting argentine posters ” this is minor sport for me, like shooting fish in a barrel. Especially when they are as stupid as you.
Are you still watching re-runs of Morse, or Downton Abbey? Still fantasising about a mythical Britain?
Or perhaps you are soaking up TeleSur direct from Caracas, another load of bullshit?
“After working for the past few years for Falklands Conservation on a project to develop a Protected Areas policy for the Falklands, Fox Bay resident and former teacher Clare said she was “thrilled” to be going to Oxford University”
One of the best, and independently wealthy uniniversities in the world has offered her a full scholarship via the Chevening system, yet you make weak mysognistic comments about her appearance?
They are willing to pay her to study there. What a massive achievement on her part.
Chevening scholarships are available to Argentines also. Such is the UK's munificence. Why don't you apply?
Nothing to offer?
What have you achieved recently?
Get a life, boy!
“It would be quite clear that I am British with Venezuelan interests, and have much experience of Latin America.”
Aug 31st, 2014 - 04:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0venezuelan interests...lol
a member of those patotas chavistas motorizadas?
yuck
The real problem then-
Sep 01st, 2014 - 06:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0is not to much aid or money,
but feeding you argies to much meat
to much meat make you unruly and argumentative,
well
that's what Mr bumble said of Oliver...lol
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