Ghana - Apply for a Commonwealth Scholarship Award

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Procedure

Apply In-Person:

1. To Apply for Commonwealth Scholarship Award, the applicant must go to the Scholarship Secretariat in Ghana contact link
2. Then, the applicant can get their application form.
3. Applicant has to enter all information in the application form.
4. Make sure that his/her have all the documents listed in the “Required Documents” section of this page.
5. Please refer to the fees details in the “Fees” section of this page. Pay the appropriate fees where the officials would start processing your application.
6. Completed application form must submit to the respective office.
7. Your grant proposal will contain everything about your project or what you intend to do with the funding you can avail from the government. One of the keys to learning how to apply for government grants is to learn to write a good grant proposal. Of course, your proposal will be the basis of the approval of your grant.
8. Although you are asking for funding, it can be impressive for any funding agency or, in this case, the government to see your part or your contribution in the attainment of that project. If you don't have an amount of cash as counterpart, then you can also present your labour and other resources as your budgetary counterpart in the fulfilment of the project. Of course, you don't have to everything to the funding you will receive.
9. If you lack requirements, all your efforts may be put to waste and your application denied. After you have submitted everything to the Education Trust Fund or concerned agencies, you can now then wait for the notification of approval of your grant.
10. Generally, the processing time for this procedure is 6 weeks.

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Required Documents

• Application form
• National Identification Card.
• 3 Current Passport photos.
• Academic transcript and pass slips
• A well written Research proposal
• A Study Plan
• Admission letter from the relevant University under commonwealth program.
• Application forms from Scholarships Secretariat.

Office Locations & Contacts

Location: Accra
Address: Ghana scholarship secretariat
Government office, Haile Selassie St, Accra, Ghana.
HR44+JH Accra, Ghana
Phone number: +233 30 290 7058
P.O Box. M 75, Accra, Ghana.
Telephone number- +233(0)302 662681
Fax -+233(0)302 662732
Email id – [email protected]
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Eligibility

Applicant should:

• Be Ghanaian Citizen.
• Resident in your home Country.
• Must be working in the Public Service.
• Must have First degree with 2nd Class Upper or better.
• Should not be more than 35 years for Masters Programme and 45 years for Doctorate or Ph.D.
• Must have 2 years Post National Service Working Experience.
• Course should be relevant to national development.

Fees

• A Fee for this procedure has to be paid as per authority request.

Validity

• Valid for 1 or 3 years depending on the course.

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Processing Time

• The Processing time for this procedure is 6 weeks.

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Required Information

• Name of the applicant.
• Academic papers of the previous tertiary Education.
• Transcript, pass slips
• Birth Certificate
• Sex, Age and marital status
• Nationality
• Education background
• Details of enrolling institution
• Details of applicants course to studied at the institution mentioned above
• Duration of course
• Commencement and end dates of study;
• Amount of tuition and other required payment;
• Bankers of the enrolling institution.

Need for the Document

• Commonwealth Scholarship Award in Ghana is majorly for Postgraduate studies in Commonwealth Countries in which Ghana is also a Member of Commonwealth country.

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