Recipients of the UK’s Chevening scholarship have urged the government to consider reopening the scheme to Afghan participants.
Petitioners say the decision to close the programme for Afghanistan in 2023-24 has cut off access to one of few opportunities for vulnerable scholars seeking to leave the extremist regime.
“Their only hope is the international community, and seeing that Chevening is abandoning them is just devastating,” states the petition, which has garnered more than 860 signatures.
