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Chevening Scholarships open to applications from Argentina
The United Kingdom Chevening Secretariat is accepting applications for 2017/2018 Chevening Scholarships from 8 August until 8 November 2016, announced the British Embassy in Buenos Aires. Chevening Scholarships are awarded to individuals with demonstrable leadership potential who also have strong academic backgrounds. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesNostrils. How about you applying. It should be a doddle for someone of your self-proclaimed intelligence. You could show the Anglos the superiority of Argentinian education OR you could see what world class universities are really like.
Aug 17th, 2016 - 09:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0Uhmmm, unlikely. I enjoy places that have entered the year 2017, not places that are just discovering 1973 (look at the picture).
Aug 17th, 2016 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'll pass.
#2
Aug 17th, 2016 - 07:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you a time traveler...it's 2016. The girls don't look British to me. Probably some Argentinian wenches pleased that they are getting a good education that was unavailable back home.
Nostrils? Leadership?
Aug 17th, 2016 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lead burger flipper at MacDonalds Dunoon?
Great qualification
#2
Aug 18th, 2016 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0I thought that you have never been outside Argentina. How do you know what 1973 looks like since Argentina has not yet reached that era.
@5
Aug 18th, 2016 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0And you call into question someone's past whereabouts with a question whose answer is based on the past whereabouts of the person asking...
FAIL.
How would you know what it looks like in a place you never been to?
Dodging the question a la troll. Have you ever been outside Argentina ?
Aug 18th, 2016 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You looked at the picture and infer that the UK had not yet arrived in the 1970's.
How do YOU know where the picture was taken and when ?
You also indirectly infer that an education in a British University is not worth having. A rather arrogant belief but in your case, what we have come to expect.
It would probably be a blow to your bloated self-esteem to find that you are not so bright as you think you are.
I said nothing of the sort. You imagine it.
Aug 18th, 2016 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I will give it to you that British higher education is on the whole on the superlative side, except for their view of historical events which is completely daft.
I just personally do not want to be indebted to any foreign entity for any part of my intellectual formation.
@8 But you already trawl the U.K. and U.S. media.
Aug 18th, 2016 - 05:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Our view of world history is no dafter than yours. As I have said before, you are stuck in the mid 19th century.
Aug 18th, 2016 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0There are no strings to a Chevening scholarship. You don't have to like Britain or agree with it's policies. It gives people a chance to study in an atmosphere where you can meet people from all over the globe and open your mind to new concepts and ideas at first hand . Who knows, you may even lose some of your prejudices.
@9
Aug 19th, 2016 - 12:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0That is free of charge. And I trawl all international media in order to put people in their right place that their respective countries are not genetically superior to Argies as they always claim.
@10
My prejudices are mainly only a result of the prejudices all other nations show against me. They have the power to change my behavior not myself.
A par of it is also the arrogance of governments like yours who claim a moral high ground they don't deserve. They chide others on colonialism, and they chastise others on using military force for aggressive wars. Which were the last two nations that used their military aggressively? Russia and UK, that's right.
I don't count the NorthAmoans because they are a lost cause, and are now reaping what they sowed as their country is tearing itself apart racially, politically, economically, and through the terrorist fear, for all the world to see.
@11
Aug 19th, 2016 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0“That is free of charge.” Free or not you are allowing foreign media to shape your intellect.
“They have the power to change my behavior not myself.” You are giving away all your power to other people.
#11
Aug 19th, 2016 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0“the prejudices all other nations show against me.”
A rather sweeping statement. What “nations” are showing prejudice against YOU.
What nations have affected your life to it's detriment. If you mean posters on this forum, that could only be about 12 people. Conversely, we have at least a dozen who are anti-British....in that figure we probably have multiple trolls.
This is not a discussion forum. It is just short of a bear pit with everyone screaming their prejudices...you being one of the most vociferous.
If “every” nation is against you, why is that ? Should you not take a look at yourself and see if there is common cause. Being a “victim” is easy. It's everyone else's fault and quite a comfortable place to be sitting in your self-righteous bubble. You still think that the UK is a colonialist power. Where are we colonising ?
If you look at the current Middle East situation you are saying that the UK is one of the last nations to use force.
SYRIA. The French are probably more involved than us. They were bombing Syria long before the UK became involved. Turkey, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States are also involved.
IRAQ. A NATO coalition.
AFGHANISTAN. A NATO coalition.
LIBYA. The French again were more involved in bombing than the UK.
You probably would benefit from a scholarship at a British university.
It would teach you objective reasoning instead of finding information to bolster your prejudices which you promulgate as the only truth.
Nostrils has finished his formal education..... if you ignore his enrolment in the University of Googling. Cheving is for masters level so he is ineligible anyway.
Aug 20th, 2016 - 02:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is as good as it gets for him.
I didn't realise I was eligible. Might have to look at that next year or when I complete my masters. Cardiff, Edinburgh, LSE, University College.... all eligible and possible for my field.
Though now that I'm living in Quebec which is in North America I am interested to see that this this country is not “tearing itself apart racially, politically, economically, and through the terrorist fear, for all the world to see.”
But then I'm going to McGill and not the University of Googling!
Even a High School diploma is overrated. The most important education is the one you provide yourself.
Aug 20th, 2016 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#15
Aug 20th, 2016 - 06:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Educating yourself does NOT preclude you from mistakes. You need a formal disciplined system where you can have your ideas challenged and discussed.
A university education is valuable because it exposes you to different ideas from your tutors and fellow students and turns out a more rounded person. You are sadly lacking in this respect.
“The most important education is the one you provide yourself.”
Aug 20th, 2016 - 08:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Exactly. By earning admission to a university and then earning a degree. Success in life is about grasping opportunities when they present.
The more prestigious the university and the higher the degree the more effort you are applying.
Perhaps you haven't had the same opportunities presented to you Nostrils, but more likely you just fail to fight and grasp for them. Other than the extremely short-lived lie or experience you had at university a couple of years back.
I'll never apologise for doing the opposite.
@16
Aug 21st, 2016 - 02:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0And how would you tell from my postings I am lacking in exposure to “disciplined system, challenge, and different ideas”?
@17
Oh so you are one of those university elitists who brown-nose anyone whose degree or “university prestige” is deemed lower than your own.
I think it is quite funny here we have two posters that while attempting to admonish me that THEIR education (whatever that is) makes them superior to my own by default, because it “exposes you to different ideas, challenges your notions, etc”, their behavior betrays the exact opposite: complete intolerance to opposing views, and worst of all, opposing such views merely on the nationality of the individual (Argentine poster = my views and education automatically are superior to his/her).
Well, all that time in “prestigious universities” seems to have been a monumental waste. Certainly it has not made people in this forum better individuals for it. Just added the conceit and arrogance of refusing to acknowledge anyone who is a centimeter less “educated” (in their metric, based on some completely subjective and usually culturally biased surveys on universities).
@18 CapiTroll
Aug 21st, 2016 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0“And how would you tell from my postings I am lacking in exposure to “disciplined system, challenge, and different ideas”?”
You dismissed applying for a scholarship because of a photograph.
You think British higher education has only one view of historical events. (You obviously never met a historian!)
You trawl international media to “put people in their right place that their respective countries are not genetically superior to Argies”, rather than to learn new things and discover different points of view. (And who here has been claiming such a stupid thing anyway?)
You say other people have the power to change your behaviour rather than yourself.
If you've ever been exposed to those things it obviously hasn't stuck.
I'm not saying the other posters here are any better, but why aim for the lowest standard possible?
Wrong I don't aim for the lowest standard possible, I aim for the highest standard UNDERSTOOD in my surroundings.
Aug 21st, 2016 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0There was a legendary era, eons upon eons fore, where there was a poster with extremely open mindset, and with at times commentary with a high intellectual quotient or with a primary infusion of common sense. That poster was traduced, flayed, lambasted, objurgated, belittled, deprecated, scorned, and abused, the object of vitriol, libel, and vituperation. And one day, HE came, the Savior, the Father, the Lordly, the Founder... TTT.
This website can be divided between the b.TTT, and a.TTT eras. The b.TTT was like the Garden of Eden, an almost mythological, halcyon time where understanding between the peoples seemed within grasp. The time of TTT is legendary for his comprehensive dismantling of opponents, and still in the memories of generations of posters that have come after. The a.TTT has been a time of struggle, of the realities of this imperfect world filled with nothing but darkness. One wish those legendary eras could come back, but they cannot.
@20
Aug 21st, 2016 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Wow, that made less sense than a Brasileiro post!
And if you're aiming for the highest standard understood in your surroundings, you're clearly falling short.
I don't think a higher education makes you superior or anything like that, but it does expose you to different ideas, different people with different opinions, and new ways of thinking about them. It can also make you better at debating, which should be an incentive for you. :)
I've never lost a debate.
Aug 21st, 2016 - 12:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nor won one!
Aug 21st, 2016 - 02:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#18
Aug 21st, 2016 - 09:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0By reading your postings it is painfully obvious to all.
Sorry, you are self deluded..do you also hear voices ?
Nostrils is gone.
Aug 22nd, 2016 - 12:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0That's how he never loses a debate.
@25 Skip
Aug 22nd, 2016 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So I see, he's bravely run away.
It's a shame really, I think he actually could have got somewhere in his argument about colonies on the other article, but then he just gave up and went for distraction.
Do you know what all that nonsense about TTT was, by the way?
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