The Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) has accused the government of selective payment of bursary and scholarship grants of graduate students both home and abroad, leaving the academic progress of others in the balance.
The Association says the delay in releasing the funds for graduate students to continue with their various research works is making life uncomfortable for them.
[contextly_sidebar id=”cdqBBp8QSbUofoDDFjcwIf2dACxo3CXx”]Expressing worry over the delay, the GRASAG-UEW Chapter President, Emmanuel Owusu, said, “Some selected few were paid leaving a significant number of our members who do not know their fate whether the government will redeem her pledge or not.”
Mr. Owusu expressed the disappointment on Monday at the on-going 3rd International Multi-disciplinary Conference for Postgraduate Students (3rd IMCfPS) at the University of Education, Winneba.
In his speech, GRASAG-UEW President warned the situation is making graduate students apprehensive, warning, “Although we are doing our best possible as institutional presidents to calm our members, I cannot hide the fact that the delay in the release of the funds is brewing tension waiting to explode.”
The Conference is under the theme ‘Attaining the Sustainable Development Goals Through Research,’ aims at positioning the West Africa sub-regional post-graduate human and intellectual resource base as major agents in development.
It also is a platform for graduate students to meet with others in the academia to exchange ideas, critique, probe policies and decisions of governments in West African sub-region through research academic paper presentations.
Explaining the relevance of the theme, Mr. Owusu noted the resolve of Ghana and other African countries to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for commitment and collaborative efforts among member states of the SDGs, world leaders, non-governmental organizations, and people in the academia.
In Ghana, in particular, he asserted government’s One District – One Factory Policy could be well sustained if the government will invest more in research “to identify more sustainable and demand-driven factories that will serve the policy’s purpose and the interest of the citizens.”
He said graduate students across Ghana are ready to liaise with government, through research, in its policy direction to create prosperity for Ghanaians.
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By: Joseph Ackon-Mensah/citinewsroom.com/Ghana
