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The Minister of Higher Education Announces:

The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is offering to the Cameroon government
50 scholarships for doctorate and post doctorate studies for the 2017/2018 academic
vear.
This scholarship programme is destined for research students from member
states of the IDB with a desire to carry on with doctorate or post doctorate studies. The
duration of doctorate studies is 3 years and the fields of study are: Health and
medicine; Agriculture and food production; Hydraulic and desertification; Energy and
infrastructural development; Nanotechnology and lCT The selected candidates will
obtain an admission
in one of the universities
as listed in the website
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings.
Post doctorate studies are exclusively for candidates having innovative initiatives
desiring to carry on a research project within 06 to 12 months in modern and weil
equiped research institutes. The project has to be related to domains such as: Malaria,
Coronary disease, Ebola virus, Food production etc. Candidates for this level have to
obtain an invitation letter from one of the research institutes, in a member state of the
lOB or a developed country.
The offer covers tuition fees and pocket allowance, medical insurance and air
tickets to and fro.
Duly filled application forms accompanied with the required documents have to
be deposited at the Department of Cooperation with the Islamic World at the Ministry of
Economy, Planning and Regional Development before 31 January 2016.
The candidature form can be downloaded from IOB's website www.isdb.org.
The
eligibility criteria and further information can also be obtained from the same website.
Applications sent directly to IDB will not t ,-Cp-f-1:'
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