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Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa indicated that government is doing its best to make the sector attractive and that is why “we have over 10,000 foreign students from 16 countries across the continent studying in Ghana.”
Mr Ablakwa also hinted government’s intentions of amending the GETFUND law to allow private universities in the country to also access the fund.
“The President’s pledge for his second term, God willing is that the GETFUND Act will be amended so that private universities can now access the GETFUND,” he said at the launch of the second phase of the MASTERCARD scholarship foundation at Ashesi University.
According to him, the government is impressed with the role and impact private tertiary institutions are playing to support the education in Ghana.
The MASTERCARD Foundation scholars Program provides access to secondary and higher education for young people who are committed to giving back to their communities. Ashesi was named the first African University partner in 2012. In total, the $25.5 million fund will support a 4-year education for some 440 students from across Africa in a period of eight years.
Students who receive the award will be able to pursue any of Ashesi’s six current degrees - Business Administration, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Management Information System, Computer Engineering or Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering.
The founder and President of Ashesi University, Dr Patrick Awuah urged Ghanaians to encourage teamwork which according to him is the way of solving challenges confronting the world.
“But the problem of the world, the problems of Africa cannot be solved by individuals, they are solved by people working in teams and so by definition, the education we give have to enable people to work in teams, and in order to be able to work in teams, they need to communicate effectively, they need to work in teams of trust, because without trust, without the system for people to know who they can work with, they can’t really tackle the big problems that they need to do. And so the work that we do at Ashesi in the Liberal art is also about that,” Dr Awuah said.
The occasion to outdoor the second phase of the MasterCard Foundation was graced by a host of dignitaries such as US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert P. Jackson, and Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, Heather Anne Cameron Traditional Leaders, CAMFED and KNUST MasterCard partners and other heads of tertiary institutions.
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