Former President Jerry John Rawlings has commended the Scholarship Secretariat for decentralizing the scholarship approach.
In a assembly with some representatives of the Secretariat, the previous President claimed the transfer will make it less complicated for deserving college students to obtain scholarships should they supervise the procedure sufficiently to make sure that there is no discrimination.
“I am impressed that obligation has been devolved to the Districts. There has been so considerably prejudice from the scholarship secretariat due to the fact of the perception that there is discrimination in the options built and it only rewards privileged folks. You have to check the devolved course of action normally the very issue you are hoping to prevent will be recurring.
“During my tenure as President, I devoted 40 per cent of my time to examining corruptible tendencies. That is why I was able to have corruption.
“We have challenges giving fairness a chance in this region with affect normally overriding means and merit. This improvement would make me come to feel good and I urge you to give the new method far more publicity so deserving students can choose edge of the process,” former President Rawlings explained.
Countrywide Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary applicant for Tema Central, Ebi Bright, who was part of the conference, stated that there is a cultural tendency in direction of patronage in the state.
People today who have access to electrical power tend to often compromise cases.
She noted that even with the devolution of the system it is continue to likely to be tricky to harmony the good intentions of the Secretariat and urged the Registrar and his crew to do their utmost to assistance nearby expertise and strategies in a honest environment.
Aide to the previous President, Dr Donald Agumenu pointed out that the Scholarship Secretariat performs an integral part in developing human funds and called for a reasonable distribution of scholarships and satisfactory and frequent evaluation of the approach.
On his part, the Scholarship Registrar reported his outfit will working closely with regional and district authorities establish the range process to make sure that deserving students across the nation were being supplied chances to attain scholarships to even more their education.
Kingsley Agyemang claimed district assemblies will be accountable underneath stated rules for publishing scholarship openings using local information and facts channels.
Shortlisted candidates will then show up right before the District Scholarship Secretariat immediately after which a suggestion will be designed to the Central Scholarship Critique Committee secretariat for the award of scholarships.
The Composition of the Evaluate Committee will be created up of the District or Municipal Chief Executives, a representative from the regular authority which is pretty dominant within just the district, a representative from the Ghana Education Assistance or from any tertiary institution in the district, and two other reps to be appointed by the Scholarship Secretariat.
Other customers of the Scholarship Secretariat at the conference were being Richard Aidoo – Director of Accounts, Joseph Essah – Deputy Director, Administration, Grace Afari-Mensah and Jennifer Evelyn Bedu – Assistant Protocol Officers.
Users of President Rawlings’ staff involved Dr. Anthony Dzegede, Kobina Andoh Amoakwa and Ogochukwu Nweke.
