Ghana Scholarship Authority seeks to end favoritism

Haruna Iddrisu,Minister for Education, has placed before Parliament the Ghana Scholarships Authority Bill—a legislative project focused at changing the country’s scholarship structure and getting rid of what he narrated as widespread favoritism and bias in the present-day system.

Placing the Scholarships Authority Bill to the House, Mr Iddrisu admitted that the operating system for giving government scholarships requires equity and clearness many at times benefiting persons founded on links instead of earning or actual need. He explained, The new legislation, aim to raise high the Scholarships Secretariat to a full-developed Authority with extensive powers and a revived directive to make sure scholarships are given on the qualification-based and need.

“The scheme supporting this Scholarships Authority Bill is to deal with favoritism and bias related with the giving of scholarships,” he said. “We want to build up the Ghana Scholarships Secretariat into an Authority to manage scholarships laudably to Ghanaian students that deserves it. Demand will be a defining value of the Ghana Scholarship Authority if accepted.”

“The workforce needs of the country and the desires of the country if we are highlighting science, mathematics, education will be the preoccupation of the Scholarship Authority,” Mr Iddrisu said. “Mostly, Mr Speaker, [this Scholarships Authority Bill is] to react to the nation’s aspirations for us to give excellence regardless if in need or academic, so that scholarship goes to those who earned it laudably. “Nevertheless, Minority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, while receiving the purpose of the bill, requested the Minister to contemplate comprising requirements for spreading out the management and rewarding of scholarships.

He disagreed that focusing has most at times limited access, particularly for students from underprivileged area . “It’s not just about value,” Mr Annoh-Dompreh stated. “The formal government, I recollect, I made a call for the Scholarships Secretariat to be separated, and the formal NPP government created the atmosphere. We shouldn’t just aim on value or that aspect. We should also move our attention to separating the Scholarships Secretariat. That, for me, will be the trust and the guiding lights”.

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