Scholarship secretariat fails graduants

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Koku Adeti 12 years ago

Our leaders always try to encourage us to be patriotic but do nothing to promote it. These students have financed their education for 6-7 years privately with NO help from government, and the only incentive they had to encour ...
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Our leaders always try to encourage us to be patriotic but do nothing to promote it. These students have financed their education for 6-7 years privately with NO help from government, and the only incentive they had to encourage them return home is being denied. Very soon we'll hear our so called greedy leaders complaining about brain drain.
Kofi Ghanaba 12 years ago

How many patients did you doctors kill in the name of strike after most of you doctors were trained with tax payers money. Grow up Ghanaian Doctors.

How many patients did you doctors kill in the name of strike after most of you doctors were trained with tax payers money. Grow up Ghanaian Doctors.
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CD 12 years ago

You said everything for me. Thank you.

You said everything for me. Thank you.
kk 12 years ago

aba,what at all is happening in our country.After these ones ve struggled to take care of themselves all these yrs,helping dem to foot their air tickets has also become a problem.Government shd wake up,bs we actually need dem ...
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aba,what at all is happening in our country.After these ones ve struggled to take care of themselves all these yrs,helping dem to foot their air tickets has also become a problem.Government shd wake up,bs we actually need dem.These r docs who r willing to come n help their country
James B. Otafregya 12 years ago

Who needs a medical student who cannot properly write his own name in Ghana?

FYI, if you travelled to Russia on your own account, you are not under any bond to return to Ghana and the govt of Ghana is not responsible for y ...
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Who needs a medical student who cannot properly write his own name in Ghana?

FYI, if you travelled to Russia on your own account, you are not under any bond to return to Ghana and the govt of Ghana is not responsible for your coming back. If the govt has enough funds it may voluntarily decide to help BUT MUST not do so.

The case is different for those on scholarship: the govt/sponsor sent them there and is fully responsible for the upkeep and their home coming.
Corresponingly, the students MUST ie ARE BONDED to, return and work for the govt/sponsor.
Kofi 12 years ago

Why pay for your return when we can get doctors from Cuba for free? This is only the beginning of the many frustrations with government. You will soon understand that your forebears who decided to leave the country are no les ...
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Why pay for your return when we can get doctors from Cuba for free? This is only the beginning of the many frustrations with government. You will soon understand that your forebears who decided to leave the country are no less patriotic.
Gilbert 12 years ago

Much as you are asking for help, come clear with the specifics of the support Ghana Government gives per student for us to assess the relevance of your laments

Much as you are asking for help, come clear with the specifics of the support Ghana Government gives per student for us to assess the relevance of your laments
Yaw 12 years ago

Indeed this story is pathetic.
How can u disappoint them @ d last hour.Atleast something should be done to them as early as possible

Indeed this story is pathetic.
How can u disappoint them @ d last hour.Atleast something should be done to them as early as possible
Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 12 years ago

How we miss the late Prez. Dr. Nkrumah, who sent thousands of students with scholarships to study in Europe and return to help rebuild our country!The only Prez. with vision!May his soul rest in peace!

How we miss the late Prez. Dr. Nkrumah, who sent thousands of students with scholarships to study in Europe and return to help rebuild our country!The only Prez. with vision!May his soul rest in peace!

Nyansasem 12 years ago

Thousands of students to study what? If 1000 of students were sent to study medicine, engineering, economics and others, and they had returned to Ghana to build the nation we would not have been in this bad shape. The 1000s s ...
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Thousands of students to study what? If 1000 of students were sent to study medicine, engineering, economics and others, and they had returned to Ghana to build the nation we would not have been in this bad shape. The 1000s science students who were sent did not return and the 1000s political science students who returned to the country have been the bane of our backwards and corruption. They are the reason why Ghana is not developing.

Yes, Nkrumah had a vision for the country but without bonding the students that he sent outside the country, most refused to return. At that time, legon, ust, and capevars were not equipped to train students and that was the reason why he sent them. Today, it is the same reason some other African countries like Botswana, Burundi, Zimb and others are still sending their students outside to study because they do not have many tertiary schools to train their science students. If Kwame Nkrumah were to be here today, no student would be sent outside.

Why should the government waste money on students who could be trained in Ghana. We have UDC, CapeVars, KNUST, LEgon and recently University of Allied Health - 5 Universities to trained medical students and yet somehow the government see the need to send their relatives and party fool-soldiers to study somewhere. This is mind-boggling, idiotic and backwardness.

Bond all medical students trained in the country for at least 5 yrs. Those who do not want to be bonded should be allowed to pay their own tuition and be allowed to leave as soon as they finished their degrees. This is just simple common sense. It's pure stupidity to waste millions of medical students and still allow them to leave as soon as they finished school and sometimes you see Presidents begging them to stay.

Left to me alone I would put a stop to it in a minute. No one should be sent again and scholarship secretariat should be closed forever. But before then, I will make sure of this:

1- Find out about all students on government pay roll outside the country studying and publish their names in the Graphic.

2- Let the whole Nation know how much we have spent on each individual and how much it would cost us for his or her studies.

3- For a student to enjoy the scholarship till the end of his studies, he must enter into a bond with the government to come back right after his studies. If he is willing the government will help him to relocate back to the country.

4- The bond or the contract would be given to the government of the country where he is studying. Refusal to come back means, the government can work with that country to demand all the money our government spent on his education. This will be enforced, even if he finds an old woman to marry to get his papers to stay in the country. Trust me, all most all advanced countries would help any African country who is trying to get his people to come back to help after spending so much on him. The UN, WHO or any body will be so willing to help in this. After all, don't they send money to Africa to help us?

5- After coming back to Ghana, a job should be find for them quickly and that scholarship secretariat any board should make sure that he or she does not run back. After 5 yrs of working for the country, he or she can be set free from the bond.

- If any of our governments has planned something like this, we would not be begging medical doctors to stay. And we could be sending doctors to our neighboring countries for money as Cuba keeps on doing. Ignorantly, most people think Cuban doctors sent to Ghana are for free.

Some have told us that we should pay them well and they would stay. Hogwash, no matte how much we pay them, they would leave or try to cry for better salaries. It is human nature, the richer you become, the more money you want.

Some also have said, we should think about "brain gain," nonsense. This brain gain idea comes from people who feel guilty about their deeds or those who ran away and think that we should understand them because they now have more knowledge to help Ghana. Not so, most open their clinics and charge exorbitantly so I don't see any help here. Or, is it the old beds and stethoscopes they keep on sending to Ghana?

Please, don't expect me to say anything about those private students who are asking the government to finance their relocation to Ghana. I think they have wools in their craniums.
Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 12 years ago

Dear Nyansasem,I never suggested that students should be sent outside since we have all the institutions in Ghana now.Dr. NKrumah sent thousands outside to study because we didn`t have the facilities.Just contact the scholars ...
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Dear Nyansasem,I never suggested that students should be sent outside since we have all the institutions in Ghana now.Dr. NKrumah sent thousands outside to study because we didn`t have the facilities.Just contact the scholarship secretariat to find out how many students were sent outside under Prez. Nkrumah.Do you know what happened to those who returned after DR. Nkrumah was overthrown?Don`t blame anybody who refused to return.I am 74 years old, a consultant in surgery since 1974 and have been visiting Ghana with drugs almost every year,helping the poor and needy in my hometown free of charge.I just don`t talk but help.I shall be in Ghana again this year to help free of charge.Try to do a bit to help the poor and the needy.A German businessman, who lived in Ghana for some time told me that what Ghanaians can do best, is to talk all day.We have everything to make us selfsufficient but we prefer globetrotting,looking for loans and misusing them.You have to blame our politicians, who are selfish, greedy and have no vision.Many Ghanaians are suffering because of the very bad policies of our so-called leaders!I wouldn`t mind working in any village in Ghana if there is at least the supply of potable water.Also, impediments are put in the way of colleagues who want to come home and help free of charge!Do our present leaders have brains at all?I agree with certain things you wrote.The blame lies with our so-called leaders.Have a nice day!
Nyansasem 12 years ago

You failed to let me know whether you were sent by Nkrumah or not but that does not matter anyway. Curse be on anyone who was sent by Nkrumah, supported by the government through his education and failed to come back.

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You failed to let me know whether you were sent by Nkrumah or not but that does not matter anyway. Curse be on anyone who was sent by Nkrumah, supported by the government through his education and failed to come back.

Becoming an altruist as form of defense mechanism does not cut it. I have known people who paid their own tuition who are doing more than what you are doing so what is the big deal? Those who refused to come back after studies could be liken to SLAVERY that affected in our parts of the world. Just like the best were taken for labor during the time of slavery, the same best were taken by Nkrumah to go study and come back to develop the country but they refused to come back. Do you realize the similarities here?

But just like I said, the scholarship secretariat has outlived its usefulness; it is about time we closed it for good.
OB 12 years ago

There are many well trained people in Ghana. Unfortunately, you need "connections" to get a job, which has resulted in people doing jobs that they were not trained to do - that is our problem. The consequence of this is low p ...
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There are many well trained people in Ghana. Unfortunately, you need "connections" to get a job, which has resulted in people doing jobs that they were not trained to do - that is our problem. The consequence of this is low productivity and low economic growth, low unemployment, high poverty rate, low economic growth, and the cycle goes on and on.

The scholarship secretariat (SS) has outlived its usefulness for the ordinary Ghanaian but there are many children of "you know who" who are studying abroad on government scholarships. So, the SS is still serving some Ghanaians.
Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 12 years ago

Dear Nyansasem,I am sure that you are too young to know what happened to the students when Dr.Nkrumah was overthrown.In Ghana, Dr. Nkrumah`s bodyguard was put in a cage and paraded on the streets of Accra!Most of the students ...
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Dear Nyansasem,I am sure that you are too young to know what happened to the students when Dr.Nkrumah was overthrown.In Ghana, Dr. Nkrumah`s bodyguard was put in a cage and paraded on the streets of Accra!Most of the students lost their scholarships because they were supposed to be supporters of Dr.Nkrumah.Don`t blame anybody who refused to return home because of the very primitive way people were treated.All I want to tell you is that, do your best to help the poor and the needy in our soceity as I am doing.Anybody in Ghana, who has had some sort of education,has been supported by the taxpayer.And who is the taxpayer?The scholarship secretariat is there to help where help is needed because we all pay the taxes.Have a nice day!
AKWELE 12 years ago

Please help them to go treat the patients, to reduce the ratio of patients to doctors. A healthy nation is a wealthy nation.

Please help them to go treat the patients, to reduce the ratio of patients to doctors. A healthy nation is a wealthy nation.
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Afriyie 12 years ago

One would have expected engineers or other professionals to lament cos these class of professionals hardly go on strike. Who begs doctors back to Ghana when in the next month they'll be queuing for strike actions. If you won' ...
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One would have expected engineers or other professionals to lament cos these class of professionals hardly go on strike. Who begs doctors back to Ghana when in the next month they'll be queuing for strike actions. If you won't come on your own accord, stay in Russia.
For your information, doctors in Ghana are as unpopular as bankers in the UK - both are nation wreckers.
STEPHEN C.T.GYAN, ASAWASE, KUMASI 12 years ago

They are asking somebody to help them in their cause? They should appeal to GMA for help and not anybody else. They turn their back to us(the poor tax payers)and put us under undue suffering when they get up to demand for wha ...
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They are asking somebody to help them in their cause? They should appeal to GMA for help and not anybody else. They turn their back to us(the poor tax payers)and put us under undue suffering when they get up to demand for what will make them live in comfort. They care a hoot about whether we will die or perish.
KOFI USA 12 years ago

What do they want from govern. This people are private students who went to Russia with their own pocket money. I am also here in USA studying but I am not demanding any money from anyone. Is it because they are studying medi ...
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What do they want from govern. This people are private students who went to Russia with their own pocket money. I am also here in USA studying but I am not demanding any money from anyone. Is it because they are studying medicine? Medical doc are not important than any other professional. They should keep quiet and dance to music. Why are we also demanding from government unduly. I am soo much annoyed with this stupid article. If they don't want to go back they should stay in Russia, who care. These students are just like any other Ghanaian students. Ghana government is not suppose to pay them. If they want the government to employ them, that is good. Why are Ghanaian doc and medical student seeing themselves as more important than others.... they are behaving as if they are doing government and we the citizen a favor by attending to us when we are sick. It seem they have forgotten that it is their profession. NO one worship doc in develop countries. It is only in Ghana that we see doc as saviors.

aziz 12 years ago

kofi be realistic.which developed country do u see docs being paid as low as in gh.It had always bn my desire to be a doc bt didnt get de opportunity to bt frankly speaking i dnt blame dem at all.If u shd knw hw it feels to l ...
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kofi be realistic.which developed country do u see docs being paid as low as in gh.It had always bn my desire to be a doc bt didnt get de opportunity to bt frankly speaking i dnt blame dem at all.If u shd knw hw it feels to leave ur family at dawn 4 emergencies n still ve 2 attend 2 patients while we enjoy our xmas n other holidayz.Dnt talk as if u knw hw developed countries adore their docs.if u dnt knw find it out n see who r well paid in de developed countries.
Ali 12 years ago

Aziz,
It's not about being well paid, it's a career choice, and of course, they being private students. In any case, in which developed country do u see doctors being so unrealistic and unpatriotic running amock on strike ac ...
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Aziz,
It's not about being well paid, it's a career choice, and of course, they being private students. In any case, in which developed country do u see doctors being so unrealistic and unpatriotic running amock on strike actions as in Ghana? Again, in the developed countries, doctors don't get trained at the tax payers' expense. They take student loans and pay them back once they start working. In Ghana, we train these insatiable nuts for free and they turn round and ask for more or they leave. Aziz, please be realistic.
Further, they are private students; they are not bonded to serve Ghana after National Service. They can decide not to come or even come but chose to practice privately, no one cares. Not with our taxes please.
OB 12 years ago

Ali - you have to be realistic:
1) These doctors were not trained in Ghana 2) In the US if you go to a public university in your home state, your tuition is heavily subsidized by tax payers.

Now, back to the issue at sta ...
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Ali - you have to be realistic:
1) These doctors were not trained in Ghana 2) In the US if you go to a public university in your home state, your tuition is heavily subsidized by tax payers.

Now, back to the issue at stake-

The government is paying these doctors (students) to come back to Ghana and practice. It's just an incentive. If we have enough doctors in Ghana, then the government is wasting our money. However, if we need them, then it is a good thing to do. Every country is making efforts to attract needed labor - both skilled and unskilled.

BTW, doctors are needed in the US and Canada, especially in the small towns. If we do not need them, they can take a required exam in the US and practice there if they pass it. There are many doctors from Ghana, Nigeria,and India using that route.
hope 12 years ago

why do we waste money on useless pink sheets stuffs n r not ready to help these young docs to cum bk home n help mother gh.

why do we waste money on useless pink sheets stuffs n r not ready to help these young docs to cum bk home n help mother gh.
Ali 12 years ago

Help to engineers; when they come back home, they'll stay in their offices and work.
Help to doctors; when they come back home, they'll be on endless strike actions.
This sensationalisim is not the answer; it's a question o ...
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Help to engineers; when they come back home, they'll stay in their offices and work.
Help to doctors; when they come back home, they'll be on endless strike actions.
This sensationalisim is not the answer; it's a question of the head and the heart. The govt is not heartless; just that doctors have become both heartless and headless and so very unpopular bunch of professionals by my reckoning.
ato 12 years ago

ndc is a disgrace 2 gh.Why waste money on useless pink sheets issues n forgo these great investment.ur a big flop

ndc is a disgrace 2 gh.Why waste money on useless pink sheets issues n forgo these great investment.ur a big flop
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john,UAE 12 years ago

The secretariat must pay no matter the cost, these are the people no matter their gad side are taking care of us.
Government should come in here.

The secretariat must pay no matter the cost, these are the people no matter their gad side are taking care of us.
Government should come in here.
mohammed amin abdallah adenta fafraha 12 years ago

their services are needed and equally they will get pay for the services render to the nation,trust me we don't feel for the doctors plight they're selfish, what matters for them is money money money!!!and nothing else,we kno ...
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their services are needed and equally they will get pay for the services render to the nation,trust me we don't feel for the doctors plight they're selfish, what matters for them is money money money!!!and nothing else,we know ghanaians if they have better alterntive abroad they will go.they are even lucky to have secure the partial funding by virtue of their parents proximity to the politicians,the recent strike is an eye opener for us ghanaians to realize their parochial selfish interest mind set.
ADDY 12 years ago

You say it so sweet on your side of the story. Who cares about a Ghanaian medical personnel who could demonstrate such inhuman and barbaric acts of leaving patients to die in hospitals by going on unnecessary strikes, that i ...
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You say it so sweet on your side of the story. Who cares about a Ghanaian medical personnel who could demonstrate such inhuman and barbaric acts of leaving patients to die in hospitals by going on unnecessary strikes, that is against your medical ethics? You put peoples lives on the line for money and compromising your great profession with some dirty politics. Quinine even tastes much sweeter than an average Ghanaian medical doctor in the eyes of the people. Check about the conduct of your colleagues if they are so inhuman in their various countries?

nameless 12 years ago

My mind went blank for some minutes just trying my best to put this in the simplest form.It is a prison sentence to leave gh on government scholarship for a study abroad. Till date, some student on scholarship here from getfu ...
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My mind went blank for some minutes just trying my best to put this in the simplest form.It is a prison sentence to leave gh on government scholarship for a study abroad. Till date, some student on scholarship here from getfund have not received their stipend. They left Ghana on september last year with just 2000 pounds and an assurance of getting the rest soon but here they are with piles of debt and cock and bull stories.
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Richards 12 years ago

who asked you to go there in the first place.

second, governement has too many things to do now, and i presume the graduants should spend a little more time of find some part time job.

who asked you to go there in the first place.

second, governement has too many things to do now, and i presume the graduants should spend a little more time of find some part time job.
kb 12 years ago

belarus??? but still the government no dey force

belarus??? but still the government no dey force
Abeeku Mensah 12 years ago

This is your grandfather's scholarship secretariat, it’s old and gray but still an incompetent government outfit that relies on nepotism, cronyism and abuse of foreign funds to prop up children from the who-to-know families ...
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This is your grandfather's scholarship secretariat, it’s old and gray but still an incompetent government outfit that relies on nepotism, cronyism and abuse of foreign funds to prop up children from the who-to-know families in Ghana.
Foreign governments who provide most of the funding source for these scholarships are part of the problem because they love to see incompetence, bribery and corruption in third world nations like Ghana flourish unabated. They get to claim from the mountain tops at the UN and other world bodies how much they contribute to the world's poor nations. If donor nations would not allow these practices in their country then why do they condone it? Yes donor nations cannot police every nation in the world but they owe it to their own citizens from whose taxes they donate to these world causes to demand accountability even with poor nations. Moreover Ghana is not poor; it is a nation run by thieves at best but mostly fools without ideas or ideals.
asase ba 12 years ago

I couldn't have said it better.

I couldn't have said it better.
bash 12 years ago

mahama provides for only northners...abouaaa no vote for you come 2016 in accra , western, central and volta, stupid tribalist.

mahama provides for only northners...abouaaa no vote for you come 2016 in accra , western, central and volta, stupid tribalist.

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