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Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>The University of Ghana, Legon, through the Students Financial Aid Office, has awarded scholarships to over 500 students for the 2022\/2023 academic year, including a number of students with disabilities.<\/b><\/p>\n

The initiative is to embrace equity and provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged students and expected to motivate and inspire the beneficiaries to achieve their full potential.<\/p>\n

Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, said this at the 13th Congregation ceremony for students who completed their undergraduate and graduate programmes for the 2021\/2022 academic year.<\/p>\n

A total of 11,711 students graduated from all four Colleges and the School of Graduate Studies.<\/p>\n

The number is made up of 2,918 graduate students, made up of 102 PhDs and 2,816 Master\u2019s students, 8,331 Bachelor\u2019s degrees, and 462 diplomas.<\/p>\n

She commended the donors, who made financial contributions to ensure that the scholarships were made available to students, who would otherwise have been unable to have tertiary education.<\/p>\n

The Professor called on other donors to come on board to assist the University to ensure that financial difficulties did not serve as a hindrance to students.<\/p>\n

She said the University\u2019s enrolment figure for the 2022\/2023 academic year was 17, 453, made up of 49 per cent of males and 51 per cent females.<\/p>\n

On student accommodation, the Vice-Chancellor said the University was committed to providing quality education to all students, including comfortable and affordable accommodation to ensure sound academic experience.<\/p>\n

She said the construction of a 904-bed capacity hostel facility, located within the University campus and supported by the Infrastructural Development Fund, was progressing steadily.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdditionally, in 2022, the sod was cut for the construction of a PhD apartment block dedicated to PhD students enrolled at the University of Ghana.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe project is funded by savings on our Carnegie-sponsored capacity building projects and will provide the much-needed accommodation for PhD students,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She said the GK-IMPACT Project, a collaboration between the University of Ghana, KOICA, UNICEF, and MEST, was making significant strides in advancing entrepreneurship and innovation in the ICT sector.<\/p>\n

The Vice-Chancellor said the GK-IMPACT Project had allocated US$9 million through KOICA to construct a building that would provide software and hardware for ICT innovation and research.<\/p>\n

She said the University was the first public University to develop a gender policy to ensure that all stakeholders were treated equally and had access to the same facilities, opportunities, and treatment, regardless of their sex.<\/p>\n

The University is also the first in Ghana to develop a Sexual Harassment Policy.<\/p>\n

On special initiatives, she said the University had implemented the \u201cOne Student, One Laptop\u201d project, which had already provided 120 needy students with laptops and would soon give out a second batch of laptops of up to 200.<\/p>\n

Nana Dwemoh Benneh, the Chief Executive Officer of Universal Merchant Bank, encouraged the graduands to take advantage of the digital space to maximize their potential.<\/p>\n

That, he said, was critical because the rapid development of technology had transformed every socio-economic life in society.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need to be curious, adventurous, imaginative, and utilise all the available platforms to achieve your career development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Collins Dotse Tsakpo, the best graduating student from the School of Education and Leadership, thanked the management of the University for the good learning experience.<\/p>\n

He assured that they would uphold the University\u2019s values of integrity and truth in their field of work to impact society positively.<\/p>\n

Hannah Ayamba won the award for the best graduating student from the School of Continuing and Distance Education.<\/p>\n

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