Issue 7 - Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United ...
Issue 7 - Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United ...
Issue 7 - Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United ...
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Alexander V F G D’Silva, a former teacher <strong>in</strong><br />
Tanganyika (now Tanzania), realised a boyhood<br />
ambition when he received a <strong>Commonwealth</strong><br />
<strong>Scholarship</strong> to study Chemical Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g at <strong>the</strong><br />
University of Sydney. He was one of <strong>the</strong> first<br />
<strong>Commonwealth</strong> Scholars and started his four-year<br />
course <strong>in</strong> 1960. Here, he is pictured <strong>in</strong> his third<br />
year, solv<strong>in</strong>g a problem with <strong>the</strong> aid of an<br />
electronic computer <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Department of<br />
Chemical Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g at <strong>the</strong> University of Sydney.<br />
Source: National Archives of Australia: A1501, A4558/1<br />
THE CHANGING FACE OF COMMONWEALTH SCHOLARSHIPS • EVALUATING OUR IMPACT • A NEW DIMENSION<br />
LEARNING ABROAD • ANNIVERSARY CALENDAR<br />
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