With respect to securing Scholarships for postgraduate degree studies, what opportunities do you thing have not been fully utilized in achieving this by African graduates.
One area where I will like to see a possible change in is getting more young African scholars who have received education from universities in developed countries, investing their knowledge and wealth of experience to improve our education system. While one might be quick to mention the bureaucracies with effecting change in Africa as a young person, organisations and philanthropists could commit to creating systems that support this. I am particularly excited about the Aig Imoukhuede (AIG) Foundation Scholarship programme in Partnership with the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
The scholarship scheme is designed to identify a few Africans each year who have demonstrated a significant commitment to development in their given sectors in years of experience and with a background in the public sector, selected scholars are granted a one-year scholarship to learn about public policy and mandated to return to their home countries where required policies in their given sectors are pushed for the right way.
While it is easy to chase the popular and highly competitive scholarship opportunities there are today, young Africans could explore less popular routes of seeking school-based funding opportunities or reaching out to professors working in their areas of interest to seek sector-specific funding opportunities which may not be too popular.
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