Help at last for Aziz, Owusu
Arku Jasmine
Junior News
Help has finally come to Messrs Adams Abdul Aziz, formerly of Navrongo SHS and Mr Godfred Owusu, formerly of Koforidua Sec/Tech, to pursue tertiary education abroad.
The two were part of the nine Ghanaian students who won the 2012 West African Examinations Council Merit Awards for their outstanding performance in the exams.
Messrs Aziz and Owusu, who won the Overall Best in the Agriculture and Technical programmes respectively, and were the first candidates in the history of the awards to have met the criteria in the two programmes, but could not gain admission to the university due to financial difficulties.
Now the two can heave a sigh of relief, following the decision by Education Abroad, an International Students Placement Agency that helps students to further their education abroad, to seek admission for them in foreign universities.
Mr Owusu, who picked the award in the technical programme, will be pursing architecture, while Mr Aziz, who won the award in the agriculture programme, will be pursuing medicine in two separate universities in Canada.
While Mr Aziz still awaits the outcome of the medical examination conducted on him to enable him secure a Canadian visa, Mr Owusu has already gone through it and has obtained his Canadian visa.
The plight of the two came to light at the 2012 West African Examinations Council Merit Awards ceremony when the Principal Public Relations Officer of the West African Examinations Council, Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, appealed for financial support for the two to enable them continue their tertiary education.
The Junior Graphic on its March 20 — 26, 2013 edition, carried a story headlined; “Two WAEC awardees in financial distress”, which attracted the attention of individuals and organisations out of which Study Abroad decided to offer them the scholarship.
Explaining why his agency decided to help the two, Mr Kwabena Nyame, the Chief Executive Officer of Education Abroad, said it had been his desire to support brilliant students struggling to further their education.
He said he wanted to study abroad when he was a student but could not do so because of financial difficulties. “That is why now that I think am in a position to help others, I decided to set up this agency to help students who are brilliant but needy, and also those with similar vision.”
By Severious Kale-Dery/Junior Graphic/Ghana
The two were part of the nine Ghanaian students who won the 2012 West African Examinations Council Merit Awards for their outstanding performance in the exams.
Messrs Aziz and Owusu, who won the Overall Best in the Agriculture and Technical programmes respectively, and were the first candidates in the history of the awards to have met the criteria in the two programmes, but could not gain admission to the university due to financial difficulties.
Now the two can heave a sigh of relief, following the decision by Education Abroad, an International Students Placement Agency that helps students to further their education abroad, to seek admission for them in foreign universities.
Mr Owusu, who picked the award in the technical programme, will be pursing architecture, while Mr Aziz, who won the award in the agriculture programme, will be pursuing medicine in two separate universities in Canada.
While Mr Aziz still awaits the outcome of the medical examination conducted on him to enable him secure a Canadian visa, Mr Owusu has already gone through it and has obtained his Canadian visa.
The plight of the two came to light at the 2012 West African Examinations Council Merit Awards ceremony when the Principal Public Relations Officer of the West African Examinations Council, Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, appealed for financial support for the two to enable them continue their tertiary education.
The Junior Graphic on its March 20 — 26, 2013 edition, carried a story headlined; “Two WAEC awardees in financial distress”, which attracted the attention of individuals and organisations out of which Study Abroad decided to offer them the scholarship.
Explaining why his agency decided to help the two, Mr Kwabena Nyame, the Chief Executive Officer of Education Abroad, said it had been his desire to support brilliant students struggling to further their education.
He said he wanted to study abroad when he was a student but could not do so because of financial difficulties. “That is why now that I think am in a position to help others, I decided to set up this agency to help students who are brilliant but needy, and also those with similar vision.”
By Severious Kale-Dery/Junior Graphic/Ghana