Achievements & Future Plans

Some of the achievements of the board in reccent times include:

  1. The Board has 86 State Foreign students in various fields of discipline out of which 30 students are coming back as a result of completion of their academic programmes. 12 are PhD graduants while 18 are Masters holders. Whereas 1225 undergraduates  students, 28 masters degree students, 32 doctorate degree students are studying on State Government Scholarships within Nigeria.
  2. About 672 (Six hundred and seventy two) students of physically challenged students have benefited from the State Government Scholarship awards of N100,000 each in each academic session from the period of award commencement to the completion of their programmes.
  3.  Also the State Scholarship Board facilitates awards of scholarships to Ebonyi State indigenes by other scholarship agencies such as oil companies or Federal Government by disseminating information appropriately to enable intending applicants access them.
  4. The State Scholarship Board sponsors French Language Immersion Programmes in which over 100 students have benefited since 2007 to 2014.
  5. Before the present Government under the leadership of His Excellency Chief Martin Elechi CON which the above achievements were recorded from 2007 to 2015, records from 2003 to 2004 under the leadership of His Excellency Dr. Sam O. Egwu indicate a total number of beneficiaries as thus: 132 students being 3 undergraduates, 118 Master students and 11 PhD students through the State Government sponsored HIPACT overseas programmes.  

Future Plans

Over the next few years, the board intends to accomplish the following objectives:

  •  There is need to disseminate information concerning the State scholarship scheme of the Board to a larger audience electronically.
  •  To constantly showcase the achievements of the Ebonyi State Government in the area of human capital development.
  •  To create a platform for agencies to easily partner with the State Government on its Scholarship Scheme which is operational annually
  •  Above all, the need to effectively monitor the academic progress of the state scholarship beneficiaries both locally and international

Challenges

EBSSB has enjoyed tremendous support from the Ebonyi State Governemnt. However, going forward, the board is confronted with numerous challenges as follows:

  •  Quality education is capital intensive and therefore requires a collaborative effort of both private and public sectors in providing access of education to the team population of youths in the state.
  •  Also sound vehicles are required in order to have effective running around of the boards’ statutory functions.

Despite these challenges however, Ebonyi State remains commited to sponsor briliant but indigent students of Ebonyi State extraction and also ready to partner with any private or public sector both locally and internationally that are willing to foster the educational development of the citizenry. Beneath are our State Foreign Students as indicated