The Tertiary Education Scholarship Trust.
TEST for Africa is a UK registered charity, registered under number 1124600, which aims to fund the further education of African students.
Trust Objectives
The objective of the Trust is the provision of fully funded or partially funded named scholarships to both new and continuing bright, but financially needy students for undergraduate study at public Universities and Polytechnics in African countries which the Trustees deem to be sufficiently under-developed, yet properly organised and governed. Awards must be channelled through local African Charitable Trusts which must undertake to operate at no cost such that 100% of all donations are made to the students, who in turn must accept bonding to continue to reside in their country of origin following their education and to contribute to the social and economic development of the country. Such local Charitable Trusts will be responsible for selection of recipients in accordance with standards established by the Trustees of TEST for Africa. Moreover, they must agree to be totally transparent and provide Annual Reports plus proper accounting records to standards and time frames established by the Trustees of TEST for Africa and the Commission.
TEST for GHANA was launched on 29 July 2008 in Accra, Ghana and will provide a minimum of 80 fully and partially funded Scholarships annually to bright and financially needy Ghanaian students effective this forthcoming 2008-2009 academic year. TEST for Africa plans for further expansion via TEST for Malawi and TEST for Tanzania in the future.
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.
October 2009
The Trustees of TEST for AFRICA proudly announce that Dr Nick Brown, Fellow and Senior Tutor of Linacre College, and University Lecturer in Forestry at the Department of Plant Science, Oxford University has kindly agreed to join their Board of Trustees, effective immediately. Dr Brown has recently been nominated as the Principal of Linacre College effective October 2010. Jennie Travers, Chairman of TEST for AFRICA stated "that Nick's direct involvement with our Charity, reflects a closer alliance between TEST for AFRICA and its local African Charities and Linacre College, Oxford which will bring signficant benefits to all parties, TEST for AFRICA, its Scholars, its African University partners, Oxford University and to Linacre College"
October 2009
Wisdom Eli Akatu, a graduate in Agricultural Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana has been has been selected as the 2009/2010 Norman & Ivy Lloyd Scholarship at Linacre College, Oxford, where he will undertake a one year Masters' course in Water Science, Policy and Management.
September 2009
TEST for AFRICA announces that the Norman & Ivy Lloyd Scholarship, a fully funded Scholarship for one year Masters' postgraduate study at Linacre College, Oxford University for African students, will in future be made through their auspices. This Scholarship has been in existence for 17 years and many of the local African Trustees of TEST for GHANA and TEST for MALAWI are former recipients. We are grateful to the Lloyd family who with matching funding from the UK Department for International Development will finance this programme.
September 2009
TEST for AFRICA reports formal application to the Malawian Government for the formation of TEST for MALAWI, a Malawian charity which aims to be in a position make up to 50 Scholarship awards early in 2010.
August 2009
TEST for GHANA announces the award of 148 partial and fully funded Scholarships for the new academic year starting September 2009 for tertiary educational study at all of the Ghanaian public Universities and Polytechnics. These awards represent an increase of a net 21 Scholarships on the previous year total of 127, plus,an increase of between 40% and 50% in the value of each of the awards. The breakdown of the awards made are as follows:
- 50% of the Scholarships were awarded to females.
- 3 Scholarships were awarded to physically handicapped students
- 55% of the Scholarships were awarded to candidates from the three Northern regions of Ghana (Upper East, Upper West and Northern Territories), and 45% from the Southern sector.
- 24% of the awards went to the University For Development Studies and of these 64% went to females.
Within the total Scholarship awards, the following named Scholarship awards were made;
- 8 John Travers Medical Scholarship Awards
- 3 Bob Hiorns Statistics and Mathematics Scholarships:
- 3 Takeshi Tanno Scholarships in Chemistry
- 4 John and Anne Bamborough Scholarships in Humanities:
Full details of the individual awards is available here. The results for last year are also available here.
July 2009
TEST for AFRICA has provided £ 40,000 funding to TEST for GHANA for the provision of tertiary educational Scholarships for the forthcoming 2009/2010 academic year.
June 2009:
TEST for AFRICA announce, in memory of the late John and Anne Bamborough, the creation of four Scholarships in Ghana to be known as the John and Anne Bamborough Scholarships. These will be awarded annually by TEST for GHANA for studies in Humanities. John Bambourough was the founding Principal of Linacre College, Oxford, and dedicated much of his life to creation and establishment of Linacre College, the first postgraduate College in Oxford University. We are grateful to the Bamborough family for their permission to create these valuable Scholarships.
June 2009:
TEST for AFRICA announces that their Trustees have confirmed their financial support for the creation and future funding of a charitable tertiary education Trust in Malawi. TEST for MALAWI will be created during the second half of this year under the Trusteeship of three former Malawian Norman & Ivy Lloyd Scholars from Linacre College, Oxford, plus two distinguished Malawian academics. It is intended that TEST for MALAWI will be in a position to make its first awards for the forthcoming academic year which begins in January/February 2010. An initial guarantee of a minimum annual grant of £15,000 has been underwritten by TEST for AFRICA.
May 2009 - Announcement.
TEST for Africa is proud to announce that it is supported thanks to donations recieved from EDF Trading, the Travers and Lloyd families, Mr & Mrs John Rittenhouse, Schools Around the World, and Vivaldi Ltd. These generous donations have enabled over 120 students to attend higher education in Ghana this year.
JULY 2008 - Test for Ghana Launch.
Jennie Travers, Kim Lloyd and Keith Lloyd, representing TEST for AFRICA visited Ghana for the official launch of TEST for GHANA at a well attended Press Conference in Accra on 29 July 2008. Representatives of Stakeholders and NUGS were also in attendance.
The Press Conference was chaired by Professor George Hagan, Chairman of TEST for GHANA with presentations being made by Professor Hagan, Keith Lloyd and Emmanuel Tachie-Obeng. TEST for GHANA received extensive national television and newspaper coverage following this event at which time it was announced that effective September 2008 a minimum of 80 Scholarships with an average value of 500 Cedis per year would be awarded to both new and continuing students at all public Universities and Polytechnics. Public announcement of the first awards by TEST for GHANA will be made in October 2008.
During the same visit, Jennie Travers, Kim Lloyd and Keith Lloyd visited Stakeholders in Cape Coast, Wa and Tamale. Valuable visits were also made to Girls Secondary High Schools in Tamale, Bolgatanga and Wa to announce the Scholarships and to encourage those bright yet needy girls from these schools to who would not normally consider undertaking tertiary education to realise their potential with financial support from TEST for GHANA. TEST for GHANA has committed to work directly with these schools to create a awareness programmes and to identify potential candidates at an early stage in their Secondary High School education.