Free SHS Tertiary Scholarship Application Portal opened for WASSCE 2020 graduates. Free SHS graduates from 1 to 15 December 2020, will have the chance to apply for tertiary scholarship.
The Ghana Scholarships Secretariat announced that it would open the online application platform for scholarships for all the applicants who were present at the WASSCE this year.
This announced after President Akufo-Addo had sent a full tertiary bursary to students who had been in the 2020 WASSCE for excellent grades. This announcement came earlier today, December 1.
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In a letter sighted by GhanaEducation.Org , the Scholarship Secretariat suggested that the bursary includes the university usage fees or tuition fees for all approved local public and private universities.
The candidates are the only ones who have written the national test and been accepted to or have applied to be admitted to an approved locally certified tertiary institution by the National Accreditation Board.
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