The French Ambassador to Ghana, Her Excellency Anne-Sophie Avé has revealed the willingness of the French Embassy to offer scholarships to more Ghanaian students to study in France.
She says there are scholarship opportunities for students to study in France which is not many but there is also an agreement with the Scholarship Secretariat to ensure that students get an opportunity.
Her Excellency Anne-Sophie Avé made this known when she paid a courtesy call on the Vice Chancellor, Professor Johnson Nyarko Boampong and management members of the University of Cape Coast.
She said “we can do joint scholarships with the Ghanaian scholarship secretariat which enables us to send more students and welcome them for a Master’s, PhD, also any level of education through the joint scholarships.”
The French Ambassador also stressed the need for a devoted attaché in light of strengthening the partnerships between the French Embassy and universities in Ghana.
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“I believe that the partnerships we have with several universities in Ghana and the ones we have with Cape Coast University and the ones I want to strengthen with Cape Coast University deserved a dedicated attaché and we are very happy to welcome him, and he will be the contact to move forward with the agreements and the partnerships we have,” she said.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong speaking to ATLFMNEWS after the engagement with the French delegation highlighted the significance of the meeting.
“University of Cape Coast has got longstanding partnership with France and I think this visit will reinforce what has already been established. As a university, we are also happy to rejuvenate our relationship and to ensure that we get exchange of students and staff and also collaborate for research so that in the end we will be able to achieve our goals as a university in Ghana and then the mandate that government has given to us. So we deem this visit very important and we expect to see more of this interaction,” he stated.
He was also optimistic that the interaction between the University of Cape Coast and the French Ambassador will go a long way not to benefit only universities in Ghana but universities in France as well.
Present at the meeting included the registrar, the Public Affairs Director of UCC, the Dean and Vice Dean of the office of International Relations, the Director of Internal Audit, Provost of College of Humanities and Legal Services, Provost of College of Education Studies, the Director of Consular and General Services, Provost of College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences and Lecturers from the French Department among others.
The visit of the French Ambassador to UCC is the first in three and half years since she was posted to Ghana and she used the visit to introduced the newly appointed attaché for research and higher education, Dr. Florent Engelmann to the university.
Her call on Cape Coast was also to visit the Cape Coast Branch of the Alliance Française to help address some of its needs.
She also met some students of the university for academic and career centered interactions at the New Examination Centre, UCC after her call on the Vice Chancellor.
SOURCE: Rosemond Asmah/ATLFM NEWS
