Understudy pioneer scrutinizes Government for late installment and non-installment of examination grant
Previous President of the Graduate Students' Association of Ghana (GRASAG), Mr. Raphael Apetorgbor
The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat (SCHOLSEC) is blamed for neglecting to pay postulation awards and bursaries due to graduating understudies quite a while back.
Previous President of the Graduate Students' Association of Ghana (GRASAG), Mr. Raphael Apetorgbor said SCHOLSEC will conclude bursary installments and proposal awards for graduate understudies from 2019/2020 to the 2020/2021 scholastic year.
He additionally communicated worry about the secretary's failure to satisfy its monetary commitments to undergrad and postgraduate proposal grants for the 2021/2022 scholastic year to help their examination work.
He said the public authority's deferral had made it hard for some understudies to finish their exploration because of an absence of subsidizing which had brought about understudies not having the option to present their proposition for graduation.
"The perspective of the Government of Ghana on research bursaries to aid the investigation of graduate understudies in the nation mirrors the way that state-run administrations over the years have valued the significance of advanced education and examination in our public economy. Nonetheless, the momentum reaction from the public authority is truly disappointing for our exploration work, "he said. Apetorgbor.
Mr. Apetorgbor inclinations the public authority to build their bursaries and postulation subsidizing by somewhere around 100 percent because of the significant expense of living.
He made sense of that, the flow esteem between GH ¢ 450 and GH ¢ 900 for every understudy, is unfortunately inadequate for quality exploration.
The previous leader of GRSAG has additionally communicated fears that their grants for the following scholastic year might be deferred because past grants and proposition awards have not been paid.
Yearly bursaries and postulation awards are among the five (5) sorts of grants for nearby local area colleges and specialized colleges under the grants of the Higher Education Scholarships Secretariat of the Republic of Ghana. The Secretariat was laid out in January 1960 as a sub-clerical body under the Presidency.
Its principal job is to endlessly deal with the mastering grants to foster abilities to guarantee compelling staff support for the public improvement plan.
Proposition awards are installments made to Ph.D., MPhil, and MA/Postgraduate Diploma understudies who do their examination for one year of study, while bursary awards are paid similarly yearly to diminish the expense of advanced education.
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