Project: AIMS-Ghana
Decsription: AIMS Ghana is part of a pan-African network of centres of excellence for postgraduate education, research and public engagement in mathematical sciences. AIMS presently has five centres in Africa; South Africa, Sénégal, Ghana, Cameroon, and Tanzania.
Country Results:
To date, AIMS Ghana has produced 106 graduates,
twelve females and Twenty-eight males drawn from sixteen African countries,
Project Results:
AIMS-Ghana is a center for education, research and outreach in Biriwa, Ghana. AIMS-Ghana is a partnership project of the University of Cape Coast, University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Herriot Watt University, Durham University, and Nanyang Technological University. The Centre was launched in August, 2012 as part of the AIMS-Next Einstein Initiative, a coordinated programme to launch 15 AIMS centres across the continent; an ambitious plan which has won support from the Governments of Ghana, Senegal, Cameroon, Tanzania and Canada; international companies such as Google, Mastercard, and Blackberry, and recently won the Project 10^100 competition, selected as one of 5 winners out of 150,000 entries.
AIMS is already making a big difference: since 2003, 731 students – 30% of them women – from 41 African countries have graduated from AIMS. Over 80% have gone into Master's and PhD programs directly after AIMS at excellent universities in Africa and abroad. AIMS graduates are now strengthening African universities, research centers, government and industry. For example, many of the mathematics lecturers at the Universities of Zambia and Khartoum are AIMS graduates and are now in turn educating hundreds of students each year. Among the AIMS graduates: 55 have completed PhDs, 233 completed Research Master’s, and many more are in the process of completing similar post-graduate programs".
