UK Fulbright Commission
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The US-UK Fulbright Commission was created by a treaty signed by both countries on 22 September 1948. It is a non-profit organisation based in London, UK. Its aim is to foster mutual cultural understanding through educational exchange between both nations. To do this, Fulbright helps students, scholars and professionals interested in studying abroad in the US or UK through its world-renowned scholarship programme and its EducationUSA
advice service.
. This is one of the most prestigious and well-known scholarship programmes. The global programme was conceived by Senator J. William Fulbright after the Second World War to promote leadership, learning and empathy between nations through educational exchange. The global programme operates over 155 countries and has supported 300,000 alumni in exchanges to and from the US.
Within the global Fulbright programme, 28 alumni have served as head of state or government, 11 Fulbright alumni have been elected to US Congress, 1 Fulbright alumnus has served as Secretary-General of the UN, 43 Fulbright alumni from 11 countries have received the Nobel Prize
(including 2 in 2010), and 78 alumni have received Pulitzer Prizes
.
Since 1948, the UK Commission has supported approximately 15,000 British nationals on exchanges to the US and nearly 12,000 Americans to the UK. In recent years, around 50 UK and 50 US citizens received grants annually in the US and UK respectively.
Fulbright’s advisory service is part of the EducationUSA network of over 450 advising centres worldwide. The advisors are the UK's official source of information on educational exchange opportunities to the US. Advisors are able to provide accurate, unbiased information about all accredited US higher education institutions.
Fulbright’s website provides a lot of information on how to apply to US universities. They also offer events on US study, such as their College Day undergraduate university fair each autumn, a Grad School Day workshop in the spring, student and parent seminars throughout the year, webinars and advisor training. Students can also get additional advice by phone, email and in person at their office in Battersea.
The Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961
states that the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
(ECA) administers the global Fulbright Program under policy guidelines set by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
(FSB). ECA does this with assistance of bi-national commissions and foundations, U.S. embassies, and cooperating agencies in the United States, such as the Institute of International Education
(IIE) and Council for International Exchange of Scholars
.
networks.
According to the Fulbright website, the following individuals are notable alumni of the scholarship program:
The US-UK Fulbright Commission,
Battersea Power Station,
188 Kirtling Street,
London
SW8 5BN
Tel: 0845 894 9524
Mondays 1:30 - 5 pm and Thursdays 1:30 - 5 pm
Fax: 020 7498 4023
Email: advising[at]fulbright.co.uk
The Resource Library is open during the following hours: Mondays (1:30 pm – 7 pm) and Thursdays (1:30 pm – 5 pm).
EducationUSA
EducationUSA is a global network of more than 400 advising centers supported by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State...
advice service.
Global Fulbright Programme
The US-UK Fulbright Commission is part of the worldwide Fulbright ProgramFulbright Program
The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange for students, scholars, teachers, professionals, scientists and artists, founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946. Under the...
. This is one of the most prestigious and well-known scholarship programmes. The global programme was conceived by Senator J. William Fulbright after the Second World War to promote leadership, learning and empathy between nations through educational exchange. The global programme operates over 155 countries and has supported 300,000 alumni in exchanges to and from the US.
Within the global Fulbright programme, 28 alumni have served as head of state or government, 11 Fulbright alumni have been elected to US Congress, 1 Fulbright alumnus has served as Secretary-General of the UN, 43 Fulbright alumni from 11 countries have received the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
(including 2 in 2010), and 78 alumni have received Pulitzer Prizes
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
.
UK Fulbright Awards
There are several scholarship programmes operating between the US and UK. However, the US-UK Fulbright Commission is the only organisation offering scholarships on a bi-national basis, in any field and at any university. According to its website, Fulbright offers a wide range of programmes including Distinguished Chairs for senior academics, postgraduate study scholarships, professional awards and Summer Institutes for younger students.Since 1948, the UK Commission has supported approximately 15,000 British nationals on exchanges to the US and nearly 12,000 Americans to the UK. In recent years, around 50 UK and 50 US citizens received grants annually in the US and UK respectively.
EducationUSA Advisory Service
In addition to its scholarships, Fulbright provides information on and promotes US-UK exchange. In 2009/10, 8,861 British students studied in the US, and with the rise of tuition at UK universities, there has been increased interest in US study. That same year, another 45,000+ Americans studied in the UK.Fulbright’s advisory service is part of the EducationUSA network of over 450 advising centres worldwide. The advisors are the UK's official source of information on educational exchange opportunities to the US. Advisors are able to provide accurate, unbiased information about all accredited US higher education institutions.
Fulbright’s website provides a lot of information on how to apply to US universities. They also offer events on US study, such as their College Day undergraduate university fair each autumn, a Grad School Day workshop in the spring, student and parent seminars throughout the year, webinars and advisor training. Students can also get additional advice by phone, email and in person at their office in Battersea.
Funding and Administration
The US-UK Commission is funded partially by the US State Department and UK government through BIS. They get additional support from individual and institutional partners. Fulbright is governed by a Board of Commissioners that includes representatives nominated by the US and UK governments. Work is carried out by ten full time staff and participants in their internship programme.The Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961
Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961
The Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961 is officially known as the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 . It was marshalled by United States Senator J...
states that the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State fosters mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries around the world...
(ECA) administers the global Fulbright Program under policy guidelines set by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board was established by Congress for the purpose of supervising the Fulbright Program and certain programs authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act and for the purpose of selecting students, scholars, teachers, trainees, and other persons to participate in...
(FSB). ECA does this with assistance of bi-national commissions and foundations, U.S. embassies, and cooperating agencies in the United States, such as the Institute of International Education
Institute of International Education
Institute of International Education - is a non-profit organization promoting international exchange of education and training. It was established in 1919 and is based in the USA....
(IIE) and Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
For over 60 years, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars has helped administer the Fulbright Scholar Program, the U.S. government's flagship academic exchange effort, on behalf of the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs...
.
Alumni
The British Fulbright Scholars Association (BFSA) is the alumni association for British Fulbright Scholars. The BFSA is a private, non-profit organisation that promotes transatlantic relationships and international understanding through its network of Fulbright scholars. US-UK Fulbright alumni are also invited to join the State Alumni and Fulbright AssociationFulbright Association
The Fulbright Association is a U.S.-based membership organization of Fulbright Program alumni and supporters committed to fostering international awareness and understanding through:*Advocating increased worldwide support for Fulbright exchanges;...
networks.
According to the Fulbright website, the following individuals are notable alumni of the scholarship program:
- Malcolm BradburyMalcolm BradburySir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBE was an English author and academic.-Life:Bradbury was the son of a railwayman. His family moved to London in 1935, but returned to Sheffield in 1941 with his brother and mother...
- novelist - Liam ByrneLiam ByrneLiam Dominic Byrne is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill since 2004, and was the Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2009 to 2010 before being appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on 20 January 2011.-Early...
- politician - Milton FriedmanMilton FriedmanMilton Friedman was an American economist, statistician, academic, and author who taught at the University of Chicago for more than three decades...
- economist and Nobel Prize Winner 1976 - Charles KennedyCharles KennedyCharles Peter Kennedy is a British Liberal Democrat politician, who led the Liberal Democrats from 9 August 1999 until 7 January 2006 and is currently a Member of Parliament for the Ross, Skye and Lochaber constituency....
- politician - John LithgowJohn LithgowJohn Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, and author. Presently, he is involved with a wide range of media projects, including stage, television, film, and radio...
- actor - Sylvia PlathSylvia PlathSylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College, Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer...
- poet - William Wallace, Baron Wallace of SaltaireWilliam Wallace, Baron Wallace of SaltaireWilliam John Lawrence Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire is a British academic, writer, politician and Lord in Waiting.-Early life:...
- politician - Ian RankinIan RankinIan Rankin, OBE, DL , is a Scottish crime writer. His best known books are the Inspector Rebus novels. He has also written several pieces of literary criticism.-Background:He attended Beath High School, Cowdenbeath...
- novelist - Sir Christopher Rose - judge
- Shirley Williams - politician
- Toby YoungToby YoungToby Young, MA, FRSA is a British journalist and the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his stint in New York as a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine...
- journalist and playwright - Ben BroadbentBen BroadbentBenjamin R Broadbent is a British economist, currently chief European economist at Goldman Sachs. In June 2011, he replaced the departing Andrew Sentance on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee....
- external member on the Monetary Policy Committee - Richard RogersRichard RogersRichard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside CH Kt FRIBA FCSD is a British architect noted for his modernist and functionalist designs....
- architect - Siobhan DaviesSiobhan DaviesSiobhan Davies CBE DLitt was a dancer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre during the 1970s, then becoming one of its leading choreographers before founding her own company — the Siobhan Davies Dance Company — in 1988.First training in art, Davies was one of the first year's intake of...
- choreographer - Susanna WhiteSusanna WhiteSusanna White is a British television director. She was one of two directors on the BBC adaptation of Bleak House. She won a BAFTA award for best drama serial for her work on the series. She also directed the BBC mini-series Jane Eyre and was nominated for an Emmy award for her work on the series...
- film-maker - Stewart Wood, Baron Wood of AnfieldStewart Wood, Baron Wood of AnfieldStewart Martin Wood, Baron Wood of Anfield Stewart Martin Wood, Baron Wood of Anfield Stewart Martin Wood, Baron Wood of Anfield (born 25 March 1968 is a British academic and Labour life peer in the House of Lords.A politics tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford University and a member of the...
- advisor to Gordon Brown (2001-2009) and lecturer at Oxford University - Mike BrearleyMike BrearleyJohn Michael Brearley OBE is a former cricketer who captained the England cricket team in 31 of his 39 Test matches, winning 17 and losing only 4. He was the President of the Marylebone Cricket Club in 2007–08.-Early life:...
- England cricketer - Katherine Whitehorn - journalist
- Tony BadgerTony BadgerAnthony John "Tony" Badger is the Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge University and Master of Clare College, Cambridge. He is a specialist in post-World War II Southern American political history.-Life:...
- professor of American History and Master of Clare College - Walter BodmerWalter BodmerSir Walter Bodmer is a German-born British human geneticist. His father being Jewish, the family left Germany in 1938 and settled in Manchester. Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human...
- geneticist - Lord Butterworth - founding VC of Warwick University, 1963-1985
- David CannadineDavid CannadineSir David Nicholas Cannadine, FBA is a British historian, known for a number of books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Ornamentalism. He is also notable as a commentator and broadcaster on British public life, especially the monarchy. He serves as the generaleditor...
- historian - Lord Higgins - Conservative MP and Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1972-1974
- Ken JonesKen JonesKen Jones may refer to:*Ken Jones , Welsh athlete and international rugby union footballer 1950s*Ken Jones , Wales international rugby union player of the 1960s...
- President of ACPO until 2008, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Victoria, Australia - Onora O'Neill - philosopher, Chair of Nuffield Foundation
- Sir Ian Kennedy - Chair, Independent Parliamentary Standards Committee
- Sir Ernst Gombrich - art historian
- Michael AtiyahMichael AtiyahSir Michael Francis Atiyah, OM, FRS, FRSE is a British mathematician working in geometry.Atiyah grew up in Sudan and Egypt but spent most of his academic life in the United Kingdom at Oxford and Cambridge, and in the United States at the Institute for Advanced Study...
- mathematician, President of the Royal Society, 1990-1995 - Baroness Deech - Chair, Bar Standards Board
Contact the US-UK Fulbright Commission
Address:The US-UK Fulbright Commission,
Battersea Power Station,
188 Kirtling Street,
London
SW8 5BN
Tel: 0845 894 9524
Mondays 1:30 - 5 pm and Thursdays 1:30 - 5 pm
Fax: 020 7498 4023
Email: advising[at]fulbright.co.uk
The Resource Library is open during the following hours: Mondays (1:30 pm – 7 pm) and Thursdays (1:30 pm – 5 pm).
Further reading
- Fulbright, J. William (1966). The Arrogance of Power, New York: Random House. ISBN 0-8129-9262-8
- Fulbright, J. William (1985). Advice and Dissent, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
- Clinton, Bill (2005). My Life. Vintage. ISBN 1-4000-3003-X.
- Johnson, Haynes and Gwertzmann, Bernard (1968). Fulbright: The Dissenter. Doubleday.
- Woods, Randall B. (1995) "Fulbright: A Biography," Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-48262-3