{"id":36665,"date":"2023-06-09T08:03:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T08:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/president-barrow-reveals-his-govt-is-sponsoring-1600-students-at-the-utg"},"modified":"2023-06-09T08:03:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T08:03:08","slug":"president-barrow-reveals-his-govt-is-sponsoring-1600-students-at-the-utg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/president-barrow-reveals-his-govt-is-sponsoring-1600-students-at-the-utg","title":{"rendered":"President Barrow Reveals His Gov\u2019t Is Sponsoring 1,600 Students At The UTG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>In his State of the Nation Address on Thursday, President Adama Barrow revealed that his government is sponsoring 1,600 students at the University of The Gambia.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The president said his administration provides scholarships and financial assistance to needy and deserving students to undergo training programmes both within and outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the UTG alone, over 1,600 students are on government scholarships, and over 500 students from other tertiary institutions benefit from government scholarships. This is in addition to the 85 bachelor\u2019s degree students in Engineering at USET,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>President Barrow also said his government, through the Ministry of Higher Education, has allocated over D100 million for scholarships and financial assistance to deserving students.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the president said the Ministry of Higher Education Research Science and Technology (MoHERST) plans to implement a student loan scheme from this year on for more students to access higher education programmes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. In his State of the Nation Address on Thursday, President Adama Barrow revealed that his government is sponsoring 1,600 students at the University of The Gambia. The president said his administration provides scholarships and financial assistance to needy and deserving students to undergo training programmes both within and outside the country. \u201cAt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":36664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-36665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President Barrow Reveals His Gov\u2019t Is Sponsoring 1,600 Students At The UTG - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/president-barrow-reveals-his-govt-is-sponsoring-1600-students-at-the-utg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Barrow Reveals His Gov\u2019t Is Sponsoring 1,600 Students At The UTG\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. 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