The Challenge Season Three Audition Begins

ALL is set for the much awaited auditions of the recently launched season three of the most prized educating and entertaining reality show on Ghanaian television, �The Challenge�. Scheduled for Sunday, July 31, 2011, the premises of IPMC (Ring Road branch) will host the hundreds of applicants hoping to make it into the 13-week reality game show to run on GTV and GH One Entertainment Television. The auditions will commence at 8am and will see applicants undergo a combination of aptitude and psychographic tests, demonstrations of academic excellence, leadership competencies, as well as character and creativity. Twenty five (25) candidates will be selected as semi-finalists to undergo a series of interviews by a panel which includes representatives of the partner universities from the United Kingdom � Robert Gordon University and University of Westminster. From there, 12 finalists will be shortlisted to participate in the 13-week reality TV show. The 12 finalists will receive extensive personal and professional development training, then compete against each other in a series of weekly tests, debates, tasks and quizzes in management, leadership, creativity and UK-Ghana trivia. Seven (7) out of the 12 contestants will be evicted over a 12-week period. The five (5) remaining contestants will go head-to-head in a final contest to determine the winner of the grand prize, who on completion of the post-graduate course will return to Ghana well prepared for the job market. Season three of �The Challenge� has at stake full board postgraduate scholarships worth �70,000, with the top two candidates guaranteed a postgraduate admission at the Robert Gordon University and University of Westminster, accompanied by a fully paid accommodation in an international students� hostel and a monthly living allowance.