The Ghana Scholarship Secretariat has published a comprehensive list of 278 beneficiaries awarded scholarships for the 2025 academic year.
The list, now accessible through the Secretariat’s scholars database, details the names of successful applicants, their courses of study, host institutions, countries and the type of scholarship awarded.
The move has been warmly received by education policy advocates, including the Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, who described the publication as a breakthrough in accountability.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday, February 2026, Mr Asare expressed surprise at the development, noting that such information had previously been difficult to obtain.
“For the first time, Scholarship Authority publishes beneficiary list on website? Eii, what was once gov’t secret requiring RTI & legal battles is now public? Eduwatch avows progress!” he wrote.
His remarks reflect a long-standing concern among civil society groups that access to scholarship data had been shrouded in opacity. In previous years, requests for details about awardees reportedly required formal Right to Information applications and, in some instances, legal intervention.
The newly published list shows beneficiaries pursuing studies across a wide range of disciplines, including medicine, engineering, economics, nursing, architecture and international relations. Host institutions span Europe, North America, Asia and Africa, under both bilateral and non-bilateral arrangements, as well as year-abroad programmes.
Mr Asare indicated that the decision signals a broader reform agenda within the Authority under its Director-General, Alex Kwaku Asafo Agyei. According to him, greater transparency is central to restoring public confidence in the allocation of state-funded scholarships.
He argued that openness is essential to ensuring fairness in the selection process and to dispelling perceptions of political patronage. By placing the full list in the public domain, the Authority has created an opportunity for scrutiny, verification and public trust-building.
The publication comes amid efforts to strengthen merit-based selection criteria and improve the overall governance of scholarship awards.
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Source:
www.graphic.com.gh
