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Capacity Building Grants/Scholarships
Commonwealth Scholaships/Fellowships
Learning from each other:
Professor Frank Nyame, Beneficiary of the 2011/2012
Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship
Each year, the Commonwealth Scholarships Secretariat
in the UK (CSCUK) invites the University of Ghana to
nominate candidates for
consideration for several
types of commonwealth
scholarships and
fellowships which are
all tenable in the United
Kingdom.
For the 2011/2012
cohort of awards, Prof.
Frank K. Nyame of the Department of Earth Science spent
three months on a faculty exchange programme at the
University of Surrey as a Commonwealth Fellow under the
Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship Programme of
the CSCUK where he analyzed data from Ghana’s mining
sector as part of his research work on “Mining and Gold
Markets” an area that forms part of a much wider research
conducted over the years on the interface between Mining
and Sustainable Development in sub-Saharan Africa.
Prof. Nyame, expressed great satisfaction on how the
Fellowship has contributed to his on-going research activities
and, even more especially, the opportunity to network with
colleagues from the Universities of Surrey, Reading and
Leeds, all in UK. He again intimated that the fellowship had,
indeed, helped enhance and update his knowledge and skills
in his academic disciplines and responsibilities.
Institutional nominations for the Commonwealth
Scholarships are normally made when the UG receives the
invitation from the CSCUK. The nomination process usually
runs between September and November of each academic
year and nominations are requested from each Faculty Dean
after which candidates are shortlisted and selected - the
information is passed on to the CSCUK for consideration.
Results from the CSCUK are usually received by August of the
following year.
Building Stronger Universities In Developing
Countries (BSU) Initiative
A major boost to capacity development for UG Faculty
members is the Building Stronger Universities in Developing
Countries Initiative (BSU), a partnership between research
and higher education institutions in developing countries
and Danish universities. The project, which is funded by
the Danish government, aims at strengthening research
and educational capacities; dissemination knowledge
management/sharing capacities; university management and
governance; and infrastructural improvement.
The project is organized around four thematic platforms of
which UG is involved in the following three: Environment and
Climate (BSU-EC), Growth and Employment (BSU-GE) and
Human Health (BSU-HH).
The project is to be rolled out in four phases, the first of
which covers a two-year period from August 2011 to July
2013, with the Human Health and Growth & Employment
Platforms receiving 20 million DKK (≈GH¢ 5.9 million) each,
and the Environment & Climate Platform receiving 8 million
DKK (≈GH¢ 2.3 million).
Increasing the Number of Academic Staff with
PhDs
An important activity in Phase one is to boost the faculty
profile of UG’s academic staff through the award of 10 PhD
scholarships with co-supervision between University of
Ghana and Danish Universities. The table below outlines the
scholarship beneficiaries:
Prof. Frank Nyame
