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Chevening/JN Oliver F Clarke Scholarship now open

Applications are now open for the 2025 Chevening/JN Oliver F Clarke Scholarship, the first Chevening Partner Award to be established in Jamaica, through a two-year memorandum of understanding between the British High Commission and The Jamaica...

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