The Graduate Students’ Association of Ghana (GRASAG) is calling for at least, 50 per cent increment in bursary and thesis grant.
The annual bursary and thesis grant ranges from 450 to 900 per graduate student depending on one’s programme of study.
But the leadership of the association says the money is woefully inadequate to support graduate students to produce quality research work.
In a statement signed by National Secretary, Jacob Apibilla Ayembilla and National President, Kwame Bonah Osafo-Ampomah, the association appealed to government to take a look at the arrangement.
“We plead with government to come to the aide of the graduate student by seeing to at least a 50 per cent increment in our bursary and thesis grand across board.”
It further suggests that government should take a second look at the application process for the bursary and thesis grant.
According to them, the current manual process is too cumbersome and stressful.
“In this age of technological advancement we wish to be migrated from the cumbersome manual process to an electronic platform to ease the stress on graduate students,” the statement said.
As a result of the situation, the bursary and thesis grant for the 2016/2017 academic year is also yet to be released.
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