Data Link University to offer rebate to female students

Ho, March 16, GNA - Data Link University is offering special dispensation to female students who enrol in the academic facility, currently operating in Tema, Accra, Takoradi and Kumasi. The package comprises rebates, including young mothers who have difficulty in paying their fees.

"This is not discrimination but empowerment," Mr Ernest Ansah-Aculey, Founder and First President of the University said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Ho on Wednesday. He said all students who enter the facility through the Pre-University Programme were entitled to 50 per cent scholarship in addition to flexible terms of fee payment. Mr Ansah-Aculey spoke on a wide range of issues pertaining to education such as Data Link's Pre-University programme, standards of education, the appetite for higher education across all ages and the cost of education for the average citizen.

He said: 93Data Link University took these and other factors into consideration in designing the totality of its programmes and policies at its Pre-University and University levels." Mr Ansah-Aculey said Data Link's Pre-University programme, for example offer, opportunities to many potential scholars of all ages and level of education, who otherwise would have dropped out of the higher educational system.

He assured prospective students that the University was duly accredited and affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

He said since its inception in 2003, Data Link had pursued a social responsibility policy across the country, offering 8,500 computers to 127 Senior High Schools. Each school received between 35-40 computers.

Mr Ansah-Aculey said Data Link University was offering a special Pre-University package for prospective students in the Volta Region. He said in addition to the Ho campus, which would commence lectures in April this year; Data Link would open Pre-University campuses at Hohoe, Kpando and Kadjebi in the near future.