{"id":39117,"date":"2019-04-07T14:29:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T14:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandans-invited-to-join-ashesi-university\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T15:06:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:06:14","slug":"rwandans-invited-to-join-ashesi-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandans-invited-to-join-ashesi-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandans invited to join Ashesi University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of Ashesi University are in Rwanda since Friday to meet interested applicants and to assess the progress of alumnus in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>Ashesi University was founded in 2002 by Patrick Awuah, an expert and entrepreneur from the USA with Ghanaian origin. <\/p>\n<p>Araba Botchway, director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Ashesi University said the university is unique as it integrates courses with leadership skills. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that individual intellectual capacity, self-determination established screening examination are among considerations to admit candidates. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some students having no projections of what they can do. When you talk to them you discover hidden potential they didn\u2019t know,\u201d said Botchway. <\/p>\n<p>He unveiled that the university acquaints students with moral values and entrepreneurial skills. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know that our continent has a large number of unemployed people. 94% of graduates at our university within four years are employed; while 96% of graduates in the previous two years also have jobs. This gives us confidence and pride that our investment is meeting goals,\u201d said Botchway. <\/p>\n<p>{{Competence in the labor market<br \/>\n}}<\/p>\n<p>Araba Botchway explained that graduates from this university have been getting employed worldwide in giant corporate firms like Microsoft, Google and American Bank among others. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiant corporates usually come to recruit employees at our university. This means our students are not solely meant to work on this continent but can compete at the international labor market,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>On the support of MasterCard Foundation, Ashesi has been paying tuition fees for vulnerable brighter students on the African continent since 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Talking to IGIHE; Patrick Ndabarasa Tumusime highlighted that he is among five Rwandans who graduated at the university in 2018 and have been already hired. The latter joined the university for a course in Finance and Administration after completing secondary education at Lycee de Kigali in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter applying to study at Ashesi and passing the entrance exam, I was admitted at the university. From my experience, it is unique for its competent education sharpening skills needed in the labor market. Two Rwandans we went together with have been hired; One is in charge of human resource at Red Cross, and I work at RwandAir while the 5th one continued for a Masters at Carnegie Mellon University. \u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Ashesi began with 30 students but currently has 1008 students from over 20 countries.<br \/>\nFor more details on application and registration visit: [www.ashesi.edu.gh->www.ashesi.edu.gh]<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28762 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/d3vcnxfwaaejybz-8703a.jpg\" alt=\"The management of Ashesi University based in Accra, Ghana, has taken Rwandans through education programmes offered by the University\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28764 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/d3veyl0w0ae6be8-adb98.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28723 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/d3vduolwwaavalf-52fa9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28722 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/d3u5w3-wkaitgtq-77068.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The management of Ashesi University based in Accra, Ghana, has taken Rwandans through education programmes offered by the University of which 90% graduates have been employed in decent positions including posts in reputable institutions like Microsoft and Google among others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39117"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39117"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}