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The Graduate Students Association of Ghana is threatening to hit the streets to protest government’s delay in releasing thesis and bursary grant to members.
GRASSAG says the development puts students in undue financial hardships and stifles their project work.
President of the association, Dr. Samuel Bert Boadi-Kusi, told Luv Fm government’s own timeline for paying the money has elapsed amid continued promises in the media.
He says after all diplomatic channels of resolving the matter have failed, GRASAG is left with no option but to publicly demonstrate the frustration of its members.
The thesis and bursary grant to cover part of graduate students research work cost has increased by 100 percent to 460 cedis per head this year.
Dr. Boadi-Kusi says with the academic year almost ended, students are still waiting.
“Some of us go to the extent of borrowing money to collect data on the field and so if we say that we are interested in nation building, then we should be ready to invest in the graduate student”, he stated.
According to him, government has not advanced any tangible reason for the delay in payment. Even though approval has been given at the castle, documents GRASAG is told, are still with the finance Ministry which has so far failed to pay.
Dr. Boadi-Kusi says in most cases, the funds have been paid back to government chest because they are released when students are unavailable to receive them.
He cited for instance, the University of Cape Coast returned GHC32,000 of student bursaries back to government because students had long completed and left the school before the grants were released.
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