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Overview

Chinese Embassy in Ghana awards 70 Ghanaian students with Chinese Government Scholarship Awards.

Commitment Year•2018Country of Activity•GhanaDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•GhanaSector•EducationFlow Type•Scholarships/training in the donor country

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2018
Start (actual)
Aug 20, 2018
End (actual)
Aug 20, 2018

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • China Ministry of Education

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Ghana

Loan desecription

Chinese Embassy in Ghana awards 70 Ghanaian students with Chinese Government Scholarship Awards.

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On August 20, 2018 the Chinese Embassy in Ghana hosted the Chinese Scholarship Award Ceremony alongside a briefing on the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), where according to Ghana's Graphic Online media agency 70 students were awarded scholarships to study in China. At the award ceremony was Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Shi Ting Wang, Chief Director of the Education Ministry in Ghana Enoch Cobbinah, alongside representatives from registrar of the Ghana scholarship secretariat, the Confucus Institute at the University of Ghana, and media outlets such as Ghana News Agency, Daily Graphic, Ghanaian Times, and Financial Times. According to a media release from the Daily Graphic Online which covered the event, the 70 students will study Medicine, Economics, International Trade, Business Management, Software Development, Agricultural Science, Oil Engineering, Education and Tourism.

Staff comments

Most of the sources indicate there are only about 200 attendants and 70 awardees.