Justify investment in your education— Finatrade scholarship beneficiaries told

THE Director of Corporate Affairs of the Finatrade Group, Mr John Awuni, has advised students on Finatrade scholarship to justify the company's investment in their education by studying hard.
That, he said, would encourage other corporate organisations to commit their resources to help improve education in the country.
Mr Awuni gave the advice when he presented a cheque for GH¢300 to each of 15 students from the School of Agriculture of the University of Ghana, Legon.
The amount covers payment of bursary for the first semester of the 2009/2010 academic year.
Mr Awuni, who is also the Executive Secretary of Finatrade Foundation, said similar amounts would be presented to beneficiaries of the Finatrade scholarship scheme in other universities including the University for Development Studies (UDS), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Cape Coast (UCC).
He said the scheme, which started in 2004, was the company's contribution towards the development of education in the country.
In addition to the bursary, Mr Awuni said the company also offered internship to a number of students from those institutions in order to integrate them into the corporate world before graduating.
He urged the students not to focus their attention on making money alone but also making good name for themselves.
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, said funding of tertiary education had been a challenge to many stakeholders in education all over the world.
The situation, he said, continued to deprive a number of brilliant needy students from having access to quality education.
He, therefore, called on corporate organisations to channel more of their resources into the educational sector by providing scholarships and teaching and learning facilities in the schools and by building infrastructure.
Prof. Tagoe said the university on her part had initiated a student financial aid scheme to help needy students who could not pay their fees to do so.
He advised the students to work hard to commit Finatrade to increase the number of beneficiaries of its scholarship scheme.
The Vice Chancellor also commended Finatrade for the long-standing relationship between the organisation and the universities.
The Dean of the School of Agriculture, Prof. Kwame Offei, expressed worry about the number of students who could not gain admission to the universities because they did not have the wherewithal to do so.
Prof. Offei said the Finatrade Group’s contribution to the education of needy students in the school was, therefore, in the right direction and advised the students to maintain their current academic performance to remain on the scheme.
The Provost of the College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences, Prof. Ben K. Ahunu, was grateful for the gesture and asked the students not to go abroad to seek greener pastures but should "remain in the country and contribute towards it development.