Of the 8,000 international applicants, only 95 people were selected to receive the 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholarship and a Filipino international student in Toronto, Nino Jaan Po Dosdos, is among them.
“I am still absorbing the news,” says Dosados. “For one, I am the first in a university degree family and now Gates is a Cambridge scholar.”
Cambridge will help fund the master’s degree of Dosados in full scholarship philosophy and anthropological research at the University of Graduation Studies. It is a nine -month program, which can cost around £ 55,000 or CAD 100,000.
“In Mere Gates Cambridge interview, he asked me what is something unique about me, and I told them, my work in the community did before my academic discovery,” says Dosados.
The scholarship, known for a acceptance rate of about one percent, is given to individuals to individuals to be committed to using arrears intellectual abilities, leadership, and their educational attainment to give positive contribution to the society and the world.
Dosados, who spent years as a student and young leader in the Philippines before migrating to Canada as an international student in 2021, has actively engaged with his hometown Zamboanga del Sur and indigenous communities in rural communities.
“Working in projects such as disaster response, mental health … that inspired me to do anthropology because anthropology is all about studying what it means to be human, what difference does it mean, and we can make the world safe for human differences,” they say.
Dosados says that he originally had no plans to study graduation after graduating from the University of Toronto, which was a scholar with a double head in anthropology and public policy.
Unlike the general international student route in Canada, he says it is not a priority to be a permanent resident in the country, especially since he plans to make a career in academics.
“I have to accept the fact that I will not be stationed at one place forever,” they say.
Dosdos is the sixth Filipino receiving Gates scholarship since its installation in 2000, and this year is the only Filipino recipient. He is ready to start his program in England in October.
