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Real stories from real scholars. Because the person who got funded looks a lot more like you than you think and you could be the Next!🎓

Reshu Bashyal: What "Orchid Hunting" Taught a Chevening Scholar

Jun 15, 2026

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7 min read

Reshu Bashyal: What "Orchid Hunting" Taught a Chevening Scholar

Learning from a series of unfunded grant applications to Chevening and winning the Whitley Fund for Nature Award, one of conservation's most prestigious global honors.

Kailash Panday

Energy

Kushal Gautam: What a Chevening Year Does Beyond Your Career

Jun 1, 2026

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7 min read

Kushal Gautam: What a Chevening Year Does Beyond Your Career

Most people expect a scholarship to push them up the career ladder. What Chevening Scholarship actually gave Kushal Gautam was different!

Kailash Panday

Manoj Paudel: Chevening Scholarship is not the Prize. It is the Starting Line.

May 24, 2026

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6 min read

Manoj Paudel: Chevening Scholarship is not the Prize. It is the Starting Line.

He understood what Chevening was before he applied for it. That clarity changed how he used the year, and everything he has built since.

Kailash Panday

Filtered Himself Out for Years. A Facebook Post Led to Chevening

May 17, 2026

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9 min read

Filtered Himself Out for Years. A Facebook Post Led to Chevening

He knew about Chevening. He just assumed it wasn't for someone like him, until he was standing in a European airport, about to fly home, and saw the applications were open.

Kailash Panday

Sudeep Kandel: Applied for Chevening, Got Rejected, Came Back to Win It

May 3, 2026

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7 min read

Sudeep Kandel: Applied for Chevening, Got Rejected, Came Back to Win It

A 17-day trek through remote Nepal gave him the question. A first rejection gave him the clarity. What he built after Chevening gave the guides who carry the rope a stake in the company.

Kailash Panday

Startups

Apr 26, 2026

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6 min read

Amigo Khadka: LSE Changed the Way He Understood Startups

He arrived at the London School of Economics already running a company. What Chevening gave him wasn't a career, it was a bigger idea of what his career was for.

Kailash Panday