Ghanaian PhD Students in UK Withdraw Over Unpaid Fees (Mass Protests, Visa Fears Mount)
Ghanaian PhD students in the UK are in a major crisis because the government has not been able to pay their tuition and stipends through the Ghana Scholarship Secretariat for a long time. Some of these students have even dropped out of their programs. Students are now facing more and more debts, threats of eviction, blocked access to university facilities, and final warnings from UK institutions that they must pay up or lose their visas. The Executive Body of the PhD Cohort-UK has called for protests and demonstrations in major UK cities and at the Ghana High Commission in London. This is because their petitions to Jubilee House and the Ministry of Finance were not successful. The students have also asked UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for humanitarian help and a break from visa cancellations, saying that the Ghanaian government is to blame. This is something that has never happened before. As tensions rise, affected scholars warn that years of hard work in school could be wasted, with some facing deportation soon and long-term financial problems.
