At the 6th session of the 56th Congregation, the Students’ Financial Support Office under the Office of the Vice Chancellor took the opportunity to honor the overall best graduating awardee. This award was presented to Ms. Abigail Cudjoe, a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) student. Ms.
The Newmont Akyem Development Foundation (NAkDeF) is a charitable organization
established to plan and implement sustainable community development projects in communities
surrounding the Newmont Akyem Mines. Their host communities includes; Adausena, Yaw
Tano, Old Abirem, New Abirem, Hweakwae, Tano, Afosu, Mamanso, Ntronang and Yayaaso. In
furtherance to their mandate, NAkDeF has established a scholarship scheme to fund the
education of students from its environs.
The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Foundation scholarship provides full financial support to brilliant but financially needy undergraduate and postgraduate Ghanaian students offering academic programmes in STEM (Agricultural Sciences, Special Education, Environment).
It gives me great joy to welcome and appreciate you for your interest in the welfare of needy but brilliant students. The University of Cape Coast is passionate about providing equal opportunity to all students and desires that every student should succeed.
The Students’ Financial Support Office presented a cash prize of GH¢1,000 and a plaque to
Ms. Grace Mensah for emerging as the overall best-graduating awardee during the 1st Session
of 55th Congregation. With so much pride and enthusiasm, the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the
University of Cape Coast who is also the Chairperson of the Students’ Financial Support
The committee presented the plaque and a cheque for Gh¢1000 to the Awardee. Speaking after
the ceremony, Ms Mensah expressed her profound gratitude to the Students’ Financial
On the 22nd August, 2022 the Students’ Financial Support Office in collaboration with the Design Thinking and Innovative Hub (D-HUB) organized an Awardees’ Symposium for its beneficiaries. The purpose of the symposium was to provide students with the requisite soft skills for life. The programme also made a call on them to be innovative and venture into entrepreneurship and create more employment opportunities after school. Topics treated were developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset, Spotting Opportunities in the University Ecosystem, Goal Setting and Milestones in Life, Time and Financial Management. These topics were facilitated by experts from the University.
The Students’ Financial Support Office is an office that was established and inaugurated under the Office of the Vice-Chancellor on 19th December 2019 to provide financial assistance to needy but brilliant /promising regular and distance students at the University of Cape Coast and also coordinate all other scholarship from external and internal sources. Since the Office is in charge of coordinating all financial assistance for Students, the Office from 26th April 2022 to 6th May 2022 liaised with the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Foundation to help with the Scholar’s verification and renewal of scholarships.
The University has instituted a centralised fund to support brilliant but needy students to complete their education.
Needy but brilliant students in the University of Cape Coast can now access scholarship packages to complete their studies.
This opportunity has been made possible with the official opening of the Students Financial Support Office (StuFSO) with the mandate to provide financial support to students to pursue their education.