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Info For Yous Ghana National Scholarships For Ghanaian Students

Ghana National Scholarships

Course(s) Offered: Any field
Course Level: Undergraduate, Postgraduate
Provider: Govt funds, GETFund, Donor support
Country to Study in: Ghana

Scholarship Description
The Scholarships Secretariat was established inwards January, 1960 every bit an extra-ministerial torso nether the Office of the President. Its chief object was to administer together with exercise primal command over scholarship awards, for manpower evolution hence every bit to ensure effective manpower back upwards for the diverse national evolution programmes.

Its mission tilt is that it "... exists to utilize Government funds, GETFund together with Donor support, for the provision of scholarship to bright but needy students together with qualified workers at a minimum assess toll for human resources evolution for the role of national increase together with development."

The Functions of the Scholarships Secretariat include the following:
  1. Administration of diverse Government scholarships tenable inwards Republic of Ghana together with overseas, namely,
    1. Ghana Government scholarships tenable inwards local universities together with other tertiary institutions together with minute bike institutions (including Northern extraction scholarship scheme).
    2. Ghana Government scholarships tenable overseas.
    3. Awards offered to Republic of Ghana past times Commonwealth countries nether the Commonwealth Scholarship together with Fellowship Plan (CSFP).
    4. Ghana Government awards to students from other republic countries nether the CSFP.
    5. Scholarships offered to Republic of Ghana past times Foreign Government together with other international organizations.
    6. Ghana Government awards to citizens of other African states tenable inwards institutions inwards Ghana.
  2. Compilation together with maintenance of records of candidates awarded scholarships
  3. Providing fiscal assistance for individual students abroad who are inwards hardship together with distressed economical circumstances. The relevance of courses every bit beingness critical for national evolution together with the prospect of scholars returning to Republic of Ghana to serve upon completion, are taken into account. Support is by together with large inwards the shape of one-time cash payment together with is dependent area to availability of funds.
  4. Counseling of individual students wishing to study overseas together with assisting them to procure visas past times issuing them alongside letters of introduction.
  5. Ensuring through the respective Republic of Ghana Missions abroad, the welfare of all sponsored students through the transfer of funds for their upkeep.
  6. Arranging reception for all returning sponsored students together with besides assisting inwards the clearance of their personal effects.
  7. Monitoring to ensure that scholarship fund paid beneficiaries are properly utilized.
Eligibility
See 'ELIGIBILITY' inwards the scholarship schemes below

Eligible groups
All qualifying students of Ghanaian together with other African nationalities

Participating Institutions
All approved Ghanaian institutions of higher learning (e.g. University of Republic of Ghana Legon, Accra; etc)

Fields of study
Any approved champaign inwards the participating institutions

SCHOLARSHIP SCHEMES:-

1. MERIT AWARDS:
Scheme is for bright students inwards approved populace boarding schools recommended past times schoolhouse heads based on their performance at an cease of term exam conducted past times the school.
  • The number of awards for each schoolhouse is dependent on the number of approved programmes together with the number of streams per programme .
  • The best 2 students inwards a current from each programme are selected for the award.
ELIGIBILITY:
Brilliant students

PACKAGE:
  • The parcel for this honor is the payment of approved feeding fee.
  • The honor is non transferable to roughly other schoolhouse every bit it belongs to the school.
DURATION: The duration of this honor is variable every bit it is dependent on when the honor is given.

2. PRESIDENT’S SPECIAL INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY AWARD:
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 particular merit honor given past times His Excellency, the President, annually to the best 20 students admitted to senior high school. It is based on their performance at the Basic Education Certificate Examination. Each part has 2 awards, i for best manful somebody together with i for best woman somebody student

COMMONWEALTH AWARD
WHAT IS IT?
  • For Postgraduate studies inwards Commonwealth Countries
  • Administered past times Commonwealth Secretariat inwards collaboration alongside Scholarships Secretariat
ELIGIBILITY
  • Be Ghanaian Citizen
  • Resident inwards your dwelling Country
  • Must go working inwards the Public Service
  • Must lead hold First aeroplane alongside 2d Class Upper or better
  • Should non go to a greater extent than than 35 years for Masters programme together with 45 years for Doctorate or Ph.D.
  • Must lead hold 2 years Post National Service Working Experience
  • Course should go relevant to national development
ACCESSING THE AWARD
  • Obtain Preliminary Application forms from Scholarships Secretariat
  • Attach Admission alphabetic quality from the relevant Universities
  • Research proposal together with Study plan
  • Screening interviews for qualified applicants are conducted for purposes of brusk listing.
  • Selection together with honor past times relevant Commonwealth Secretariat
AWARD PACKAGE
  • Tuition Fees
  • Monthly Stipend
  • Thesis Allowance
  • Air ticket to together with from house of study
  • Award Package is fully funded past times Commonwealth Secretariat of the relevant country.
DURATION: 1 yr for Masters together with 3-4 yrs for Ph.D

3. FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY PROGRAMME

BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION
It is an honor instituted for modern linguistic communication students of local populace tertiary institutions (UG, KNUST, UCC, UEW together with GIL) to undergo a six-month or one-year linguistic communication proficiency programme inwards countries alongside which Republic of Ghana has bilateral agreements.
Thus students offering French are sponsored to acquire to Republic of Benin together with Togo; those offering Russian to Russia; those offering Castilian to Cuba; those offering Standard Arabic to Egypt; together with those offering Swahili to Tanzania inwards the representative of French, students from KNUST, GIL together with UG undergo the programme inwards Republic of Benin for nine months, whilst those from UEW together with UCC create hence inwards Togo for half-dozen months inwards 2 batches. Students studying the other linguistic communication are all drawn for UG. The honor packages includes the following:

PACKAGE
  • Monthly stipend for duration of stay
  • Book allowance
  • Medical allowance
  • Warm habiliment allowance for students inwards Russia
  • Transportation to together with from house of study
  • Tuition together with accommodation fees (vary from solid position down to solid position down together with twelvemonth to year)
ELIGIBILITY
It is honor for tertiary twelvemonth Ghanaian students pursuing Modern Languages inwards the Local Public tertiary institutions

REQUIREMENTS
  • Nominating alphabetic quality from Institution of study
  • Medical report
  • Request for application forms
  • Vetting of forms past times Academic Registrar together with Submission for processing
ACCESSING
The institutions concerned are given quotas each twelvemonth on the footing of which they apply for forms (application together with bond forms) for completion past times their nominees.  Completed forms are hence vetted past times the academy authorities together with submitted to Scholarships Secretariat for processing together with issuance of honor letters.

WHEN TO APPLY
Between Jan together with May each year.

4. LOCAL TERTIARY SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
The Scholarships Secretariat administers v (5) types of scholarships for local Public Universities together with Polytechnics.

TYPES OF AWARD:
The awards include:
  1. Thesis grant for postgraduate students
  2. Bursary grant for postgraduate students
  3. Long course of study allowance for medical students
  4. Disability allowance for physically challenged
  5. Hardship allowance for needy students
A). THESIS GRANT
Thesis: This is a grant paid i time postgraduate students of Public Universities. Allowances are graduated according to programme or course of study offered.

ELIGIBILITY
  • Be a Ghanaian Citizen
  • Be a registered regular amount fourth dimension postgraduate pupil of a local Public University
  • Sandwich together with distance learning students are non eligible to apply
  • Fee paying students are non eligible to apply
  • Students on sponsorship every bit well  every bit those on study go out alongside pay are non eligible to apply
ACCESSING THE AWARD:
  • Universities concerned asking for application forms each academic twelvemonth from the Scholarships Secretariat
  • Eligible students application shape from their institutions for completion
  • Completed forms should go sent to the Registrar academic (Graduate School) for Vetting together with endorsement.
  • Completed application forms every bit good every bit signed listing of applicants should go submitted past times the Registrar to the Scholarships Secretariat for processing
PACKAGE: One Time
Payment of graduated allowances to PhD., M. Phil together with Masters/Postgraduate Diploma students working on their thesis.
Duration: The One academic year

B). BURSARY GRANT
Bursaries are paid uniformly across board annually to mitigate the course of study toll of postgraduate students.

ELIGIBILITY
  • Be a Ghanaian Citizen
  • Be a registered  regular amount fourth dimension postgraduate pupil of a local Public University
  • Sandwich together with distance learning students are non eligible to apply
  • Fee paying students are non eligible to apply
  • Students on sponsorship every bit well  every bit those on study go out alongside pay are non eligible to apply
ACCESSING THE AWARD:
  • Universities concerned asking for application forms each academic twelvemonth from the Scholarships Secretariat
  • Eligible students application shape from their institutions for completion
  • Completed forms should go sent to the Registrar academic (Graduate School) for collection together with vetting.
  • Completed application forms every bit good every bit signed listing of applicants should go submitted past times the Registrar to the Scholarships Secretariat for processing
PACKAGE
Payment of grant annually
Duration: The honor covers the entire normal duration of a programme.

C). LONG COURSE ALLOWANCE FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS
This is a grant paid to medical together with dental students inwards their clinical years after their outset aeroplane (Human biology). It is an incentive on job concern human relationship of the relatively longer course of study duration.

ELIGIBILITY
  • Be a Ghanaian Citizen
  • Be registered together with duly admitted  into the clinical school
  • Fee paying students are non eligible to apply
ACCESSING THE AWARD:
  • Medical schools of universities concerned asking for application forms each twelvemonth from the Scholarships Secretariat
  • Eligible students application forms from their institutions for completion.
  • Completed forms should go sent to the Registrar Academic (Medical School)  vetting together with endorsement.
  • Completed forms every bit good every bit signed listing of applicants should go submitted past times the Registrar to the Scholarships Secretariat for processing.
PACKAGE
Payment of grant annually
Duration: Long course of study is valid exclusively for 3 years of clinical study.

D). Disability allowance for physically challenged
from the Scholarships Secretariat.
b. Admission to Schools exterior the 3 Northern Regions.
c. Parent/Guardians apply past times completing application forms designed specifically for that past times Scholarships Secretariat
d. Forms should go endorsed past times schoolhouse Heads together with District Chief Executives of their District of root earlier submission to the Secretariat for processing.

PACKAGE:
  • Payment past times Government of the approved feeding fee
  • Payment of terminal exam fees for examinations conducted past times the WAEC together with Technical Examinations Unit of the GES.
DURATION: The duration of this honor is variable every bit it is dependent on when the honor is given. It is transferable to roughly other approved populace schoolhouse alongside the honor holder.

E). HARDSHIP AWARD
Intended to render fiscal back upwards to bright but needy students who hail from regions exterior the 3 northern regions together with whose parents/guardians are financially handicapped.

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to all students inwards approved populace schools whose parents are fiscal distressed.

ACCESSING THE AWARD:
  • Parents/Guardians collect forms from the Scholarships Secretariat for completion.
  • Forms should go Endorsement past times schoolhouse Heads together with DCEs.
PACKAGE:
  • Payment of feeding fee of students admitted into approved populace schools every bit boarders.
  • Award is transferable alongside the holder to roughly other approved populace boarding school.
DURATION: The duration of this honor is variable every bit it is dependent on when the honor is given.

5. BILATERAL SCHOLARSHIPS

BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION
These are based on bilateral cooperation agreements betwixt Republic of Ghana together with friendly countries, namely, Russia, Czech Republic, China, Cuba, Morocco, Egypt, People's Democratic Republic of Algeria Turkey together with others every bit may go communicated to the Scholarships Secretariat. Notification of the awards (which comprehend a broad arrive at of dependent area areas inwards the sciences, technology, humanities together with social sciences) are given each twelvemonth past times the countries concerned, through Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs together with Regional Integration. The offering is hence advertised together with alternative panel constituted to interview applicants.

Funding responsibilities are shared betwixt the honor offering country.

ELIGIBILITY
  • Be a Ghanaian citizen resident inwards Ghana
  • Must lead hold genuine Birth Certificate
In addition:
  • Undergraduate students must lead hold senior high schoolhouse certificate alongside a minimum aggregate of xviii (18)
  • Not go higher upwards twenty- 3 years of age
  • Be Holder of senior high schoolhouse certificate number inside the in conclusion 3 years
Candidates for Master’s Programme:
  • Must lead hold bachelor’s aeroplane alongside 2d shape upper or better.
  • Must lead hold at to the lowest degree 2 (2) years post service national service run experience.
  • Should non go to a greater extent than than 35years of age.
  • Postgraduate students should non go to a greater extent than than 45years of age.
ACCESSING THE AWARD
  • Offer is published inwards the National Dailies.
  • Students tin apply past times agency of written application alphabetic quality alongside copies of schoolhouse together with nativity certificates.
  • Students must signal preferred course of study together with contact addresses alongside telephone numbers.
  • Applicants must attend alternative interviews every bit advertised.
AWARD PACKAGE
  • Awarding Country provides Tuition fess together with other allowances
  • Ghana Government provides Undergraduate/Postgraduate students
    • Supplementary monthly maintenance allowance
    • Book allowance
    • Health insurance
    • Winding-up allowance.
    • Air passage from house of study.
    • Shipment allowance for personal effects on completion of course.
  • Students are responsible for their air shipping to their places of study.
CONDITIONS
  • Students must go medically check to move together with study abroad.
  • Students are bonded to go of practiced comport together with render to salve nation after completion of studies.
  • The scholarship may go suspended or terminated on Blue Planet or misconduct, failure or pathetic academic performance to comply alongside rules governing the award.
DURATION: Varies from course of study to course of study together with solid position down to country

Sponsorship duration
See 'DURATION' inwards the scholarship schemes above

Scholarship benefits
See 'AWARD PACKAGE' inwards the scholarships above

Method of Application
See 'ACCESSING THE AWARD' inwards the scholarships above

Contact
Scholarships Secretariat
P O Box M-75
Accra.
Tel: 233-302-662681

Application Deadline: varies / ongoing
Open to International students: No (ONLY Ghanaians)

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