EDUWATCH advocate for Scholarship System Responsive to the Needs of Tertiary Students

 

Kofi Asare, Exec Dir EDUWATCH

Tertiary education remains an unreachable right for many Ghanaian students due to financial constraints, and this is of particular concern to stakeholders such as Education Think Tank, Africa Education Watch EDUWATCH, which has described the issue as regrettable.

 It said that its office has for the past years, being inundated with requests from brilliant but needy students, most of whom have A1s in all subjects. 

Executive Director of EDUWATCH, Kofi Asare who disclosed this to Radio Ghana's Isaac Asare, said what is important is for the country to reset the scholarship scheme that identifies and support brilliant and needy students to pursue tertiary education.

He said a workable scholarship system is urgently required to help provide financial assistance to brilliant but needy students, many of whom attained A1 in all subjects. 

Mr Asare added that such category of students mainly from deprived communities often gets admission but there is no system to support them pursue tertiary education. 

He mentioned that aside from the scholarship secretariat, a deliberate scholarship system is required to facilitate disbursement of fund before admission rather than the normal procedure where beneficiaries are able to access the fund months after admission. 

Mr Asare again challenged government to reset the Student Loan Trust Fund and make it responsive to the needs of tertiary students

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