The German Ambassador to Ghana, H.E. Mr Peter Linder, has handed over scholarship certificates to three Ghanaian students.

They are the first students to have successfully passed the rigorous selection process in 2006 and to be awarded scholarships by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to pursue various studies in Germany.

According to a press release from the offices of the embassy, DAAD is a major German organisation responsible for government-sponsored programmes in support of academic co-operation and exchange between Germany and abroad.

It explains that worldwide, every year about 50.000 students and over 100 Ghanaian students and scientists are sponsored by the DAAD.

Majority of Ghanaian scholarship holders wouid be following international postgraduate courses with specific relevance to developing countries and unpon completion of their programs they are expected to return to Ghana so that they could make the expertise acquired available to their home country.

The three receipients are from the University of Ghana and theKwamw Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) they include Mr. Edward Nketiah-Amponsah who has been granted an international doctoral studies program for development research at Bonn University and Ms. Adelaide Asantewaa Asante an International Master program in “Resources Engineering” at the University of Karlsruhe.

The third scholarship has been received by Mr Kwame Nkrumah Hope to pursue a M.Sc course in Tropical Forestry and Management at the Technical University of Dresden also a graduate of KNUST. All scholarship holders would attend a German language course starting from August 2006.

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