News

May 2010

The first TEST for Ghana Annual Report, published in April 2010, is available here.

March 2010

Application forms, renewal forms and guidance notes are now available.

November 2009

Following the appointment of Dr Nick Brown as a Trustee, TEST for AFRICA, Oxford University and Linacre College announce that in future, the Norman & Ivy Lloyd Scholarship will be preferentially granted to one of the top graduates from either TEST for AFRICA programmes in Ghana and Malawi. The intent behind this change in philosophy is to establish a competitive environment and ethic amongst the undergraduate cadre of TEST for GHANA and TEST for MALAWI Scholars to encourage maximisation of their performance and to achieve top degrees in order to qualify and obtain admission to Oxford University for postgraduate study, in the knowledge that they will have full financial support. Moreover, this change represents a significant milestone in bringing our partners' mutual interests closer together.

The Tertiary Education Scholarship Trust.

TEST for Ghana is a recently formed registered charitable Trust in Ghana whose aim is to provide full or partial funding to bright but financially needy students to undertake new and/or continuing tertiary educational studies at Ghanaian public universities and polytechnics.

The charity is run by Ghanaians, the majority of whom are alumni of Linacre College, Oxford University. They share common beliefs regarding the value of tertiary education in personal development, community advancement, and nation building. To download a copy of the constitution click here.

Test for Ghana is part of TEST for Africa.

TEST for Ghana owes its origins to a discussion in early 2007 between Keith Lloyd and his dear friend, the late John Richard Lewis Travers, the former Chairman of Cushman and Wakefield, Europe, Middle East & Asia who was helping his company's charity, Schools Around the World to establish a project aimed at the construction of a network of schools in Africa, including Ghana. Keith undertook to consult with a group of Ghanaian alumni from his family's educational programme at Linacre College, Oxford, concerning the educational system in Ghana. As a result of subsequent discussions between Keith and Ishmael Jesse-Dodoo, Leander Kandilige and Saeed Abdul Razak, present and former Norman and Ivy Lloyd Scholars, it became apparent that for the cost of educating one student at Oxford, a substantial multiple of scholarships could be offered in for undergraduate education in Ghana. Rapidly, contact was taken with other Linacre College alumni in Ghana (Professor George P. Hagan, Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng, Mark Kofi Fynn, and Anita Adanu (nee Takura)) who organised a fact finding visit of Keith and Jennie Travers to a selection of public Universities and Polytechnics throughout Ghana, plus meetings with the National Union of Students and the Minister for Education. In the course of one week, TEST for Ghana was born.

TEST for Ghana is proud to have Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng, Mark Kofi Fynn and Anita Adanu, Mrs Kokui Adu, (University of Ghana), and Professor David Millar (University for Development Studies) as Trustees under the Chairmanship of Professor George P. Hagan.

The focus of TEST for Ghana is on the provision of financial aid to those bright and needy students who normally would not be able to undertake tertiary education without financial assistance. Recipients of scholarships will be required to undertake to remain in Ghana for a minimum of five years following completion of their studies to work for the social and economic development of their communities and their nation. TEST for Ghana will endeavour to provide both educational and career mentoring to their scholars; and intends to build an active alumni association motivated to continue the aims of the charity through their continued and both direct and/or indirect participation in the operation of TEST for Ghana, sustainability being the ultimate goal of TEST for Ghana.

Applications for support from TEST for Ghana must be channelled through the aegis of Ghana's Universities and Polytechnics.

TEST Ghana collaborates with a number of institutions in the academic and the business sector in fundraising and awards of scholarships. Some of the main ones include:

  • University of Ghana
  • Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
  • University of Cape Coast (UCC)
  • University of Development Studies (UDS)
  • University of Education, Winneba (UCE)
  • University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa
  • Accra Polytechnic
  • Takoradi Polytechnic
  • Kumasi Polytechni
  • Tamale Polytechnic
  • Koforidua Polytechnic
  • Bolga Polytechnic
  • Wa Polytechnic
  • Ministry of Education and Sports, Ghana
  • Ministry of Finance
  • Ghana Scholarships Secretariat
  • Commonwealth Secretariat, UK
  • Ghana High Commission, UK
  • Ghana High Commission, Brussels
  • British Council, Ghana
  • Linacre, Oxford University, UK

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