Tullow Oil launches $6 million scholarship scheme
Tullow Oil Ghana has launched a scholarship scheme worth more than $6million to support 110 young scholars from nine developing countries including 50 from Ghana.
The Tullow Group Scholarship Scheme is expected to benefit university graduates with second class upper or first class degrees, and HND holders with distinction drawn from Ghana, Uganda, Gabon, Cote D’Ivoire, Kenya, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Mauritania and French Guiana.
Out of the 50 spaces allotted to Ghana, 10 have been reserved for the Western Region, another 10 for government institutions and the remaining 30 are open for public competition.
Each qualifying candidate stands to gain at least $60,000 a year covering tuition, travel, warm clothes, monthly allowances and baggage allowance for training in selected European countries including the UK and France.
Vice President of External Affair and Corporate Social Responsibility at Tullow Oil, Rosalind Kainyah said Tullow has already sponsored 24 Ghanaians on pilot basis to top universities in the UK to study and this comprehensive one comes on the back of the success of the pilot.
She said over time the scholarship to study overseas would give way to scholarships to study locally because Tullow has plans to support internationally recognised institutions in the selected countries to train the scholars instead of making them travel overseas.
She explained that the in-country institutional strengthening programme will complement the scholarship scheme. This means that the need for scholarships in overseas institutions will phase out over time and will be replaced with scholarships to these internationally recognised in-country institutions.
The British Council has been appointed to manage the selection of candidates. Applications will start in March this year.
Director of the British Council Ghana, Moses Anibaba, announced that his outfit will also take care of all pre-departure issues like visa and flight arrangement for the selected candidates.
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Launching the scholarship scheme, Minister of Energy, Dr. Joe Oteng-Adjei lauded Tullow for the initiative and noted that if the scheme continued at the pace it is going, Ghana and Africa would have lots of world class experts within a short time. |
Accra, May 17, 2012
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