I’ll Initiate ‘Free Tertiary Education Scholarships’ For Persons With Disabilities – Bawumia Pledges
NPP presidential candidate, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has promised to introduce initiatives to hugely benefit the youth of Ghana if elected President.
At a televised engagement with the youth on Sunday, Dr. Bawumia pledged to empower the youth in three thematic areas, mentioning in education, skills training and creating a friendly economic environment for more job creation.
In order to make his policies more understood and simplistically defined by the youth as he implores them to vote for him to become Ghana’s President in 2025, the Vice President highlighted 12 “bold steps” he intends to activate to make education which is key to the Ghana’s development more accessible to all and sundry.
Dr. Bawumia was keen on making education easier and affordably beneficial to particularly Persons With Disabilities.
He said, should he become President, he will “introduce a free tertiary education scholarship for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) to remove their financial barriers to pursuing educational goals”.
Also, with about 5.7 million children benefitting from Free SHS and the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia’s remarkable investment in TVET, Dr. Bawumia pledged the following as part of approach to expanding educational opportunities in the country.
He stated he will:
1. Increase the stock of student accommodation in our public Universities and other public tertiary institutions to address the housing deficit on our campuses and make them affordable.
2. Introduce a free tertiary education scholarship for Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) to remove their financial barriers to pursuing educational goals.
3. Integrate scholarship databases across all the public sector institutions managing such schemes to ensure full visibility.
4. Expand eligibility for the Student Loan Scheme to include all post-secondary students including certificate and diploma programmes.
5. Prioritize and direct a significant proportion of national scholarship schemes towards training and skills development in STEM.
6. Implement, in full, the Centralised Applications Processing Service (CAPS) for tertiary institutions: “You apply once, and pay once”.
7. Establish an Open University.
8. Protect and enhance the free SHS/TVET which is truly transforming lives and changing life outcomes for millions with more financial support.
9. Recruit more teachers at all levels with improved conditions of service.
10. We will continue to develop additional infrastructure for our educational institutions to meet the increased numbers.
11. Offer incentives for teachers to buy one vehicle each with engine capacity of up to 1,800 cubic centimetres.
12. Continue to support teacher trainees with the payment of the teacher trainee allowance.
Source: Ghmessenger.com
