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You’re Hired!! – Aberdeen is the destination for Ghana’s Apprentice Style Reality Show

The Challenge, an Apprentice style reality TV show in Ghana, will have a decidedly Aberdonian slant in the forthcoming series as participants compete against each other to win an all expenses scholarship to study for a postgraduate degree at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Europe’s oil capital.

The programme, which is sponsored by the British Council, has become a firm favourite in prime time viewing in Ghana attracting 4.5 million viewers during each of the 12 weeks of the show. Robert Gordon University was given the opportunity to participate given its international reputation in oil and gas and business education, areas of particular interest given Ghana’s buoyant oil sector.

Julie Deighton of RGU’s Directorate for Marketing, Communications and Student Recruitment said, “We were delighted when we were approached by the British Council to participate in The Challenge. The University already has links with oil companies in Ghana but this allows us to directly provide an opportunity to a young person who may well become one of Ghana’s future captains of industry.”

The scholarship at RGU will include all tuition fees, accommodation and living expenses while in Aberdeen and travel from Ghana to Aberdeen. The winner will be able to choose from any of the one-year postgraduate masters courses offered by the University although business and engineering are expected to be particularly popular.

Twelve individuals will battle it out for the top prize on seven key tasks including a sales challenge, charity task, and pitching a product. Each week one of the contestants is evicted by a panel of judges and by public vote. As the show progresses to the final it’s expected that staff from Robert Gordon University will participate directly in some of the tasks which the participants are set.

Diana Yanney, Corporate Affairs Manager at the British Council in Ghana said, “The Challenge reality TV show represents opportunity, celebrates academic excellence and provides a window into everything the British Council stands for as a leader in international education and managing the growth of UK international education delivered both in the UK and Ghana.”

The selection process for the 12 contestants begins in August and they will live together in a house until the winner is announced in January 2012.

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