Return home and serve taxpayers who funded your education – Lawyer tells scholarship beneficiaries
Beneficiaries of state-sponsored international education have been urged to prioritise national development by returning home to apply their acquired expertise.
Government scholarship recipients studying abroad on Ghanaian funds have been urged to return home after graduation and serve the nation that funded their education, according to legal practitioner and advocate Eric Adjei. At the Ghana–UK Policy Summit, Adjei urged scholarship beneficiaries to view their education as an investment in the country rather than a personal gain.
He stressed that taxpayers funded their studies and should feel a responsibility to give back through their expertise and knowledge. Adjei highlighted that graduates should bring back innovative ideas, skills and international experience to tackle Ghana's development challenges, focusing on areas like economic growth, technology and institution-building.
He called for mechanisms to motivate those trained abroad to return and integrate their talents into Ghana’s progress, addressing the issue of brain drain where skilled Ghanaians often remain overseas after state-financed programmes. The plea was made to encourage the diaspora to bring their gained capabilities back home and create opportunities for their skills to contribute to national development.
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