Project ID: 85703

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

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

China Ministry of Education [Government Agency]

Recipient

Ghana

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Scholarships/training in the donor country

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2018-01-01

Actual start

2018-08-20

Actual complete

2018-08-20

Description

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.

Additional details

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

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

4

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Ghana [Government Agency]