JEC Moves To Set Up Scholarship Scheme For Its Students

Prof. Ebenezer A .Jackson Co-Chair, The Jackson Foundation

Jackson Educational Complex (JEC), Ghana's leading private College of education is taking steps to institute a scholarship scheme to support its underprivileged students.

As part of efforts to achieve this laudable objective, management intends to launch the Jackson Foundation which is expected to mobilize financial resources for the project.

The principal goal of this project is to create equal opportunities for all students to pursue their programs without financial hindrances.

A statement issued by the College ahead of the launch indicated that over 50 per cent of its student population were from rural and deprived communities and were struggling to bail themselves out of their financial insolvency as they owed the College a lot of fees.

It said since the inception of the school in 2009, the authorities had on several occasions waived part of the fees of some students before they could complete their programmes. In consequence of this, on humanitarian grounds , the foundation is yet to be launched to support such students.

The launching which is scheduled for April 6, 2017 at the Golden Tulip Hotel, Kumasi would have the Ashanti Regional Representative on the Council of State as the special guest of honour.

Also expected to grace the occasion as guest speaker is Lawyer Maurice Ampaw, a renowned legal practitioner.