A gaggle of Ghanaian government-sponsored PhD scholars within the United Kingdom has made an immediate attraction to British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, urging him to intrude in a prolonged revenue disaster that has left them dealing with deportation, homelessness, and educational withdrawal.

In a petition dated third December 2025, the scholars’ executives printed that regardless of guarantees of complete tuition and per thirty days stipends from the Ghana Scholarships Secretariat (GSS), bills are in arrears through as much as 48 months, plunging over 100 students into serious misery.

“Currently, 30 PhD scholars have now not had any in their 2024/2025 educational charges paid,” the petition mentioned, highlighting the quick educational paralysis. The scholars estimate that an pressing injection of roughly £3.6 million (GH¢54 million) is had to transparent exceptional charges and stipends for the PhD cohort by myself.

The scenario has ended in a minimum of 15 scholars being withdrawn from their lessons, with universities passing the money owed to the people and notifying the United Kingdom Home Office—a transfer that has already caused deportations. The disaster additionally impacts undergraduates and grasp’s scholars below the similar scheme.

“The situation is so severe that some colleagues are now facing court cases over unpaid rent,” the executives wrote.

“To survive, some have had to depend on food banks because they have no money to feed themselves.”

The scholars cited failed engagements with Ghanaian government, together with the Ghana High Commission in London, the Scholarships Secretariat, and the Ministry of Education.

Their attraction now rests on diplomatic intervention, urging PM Starmer to leverage the UK-Ghana dating and keep up a correspondence without delay with President John Dramani Mahama to expedite the discharge of finances.

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