"Reports on reducing the duration of university studies have been taken out of context" – Minister of Education

General News of Monday, February 11, 2019

Source: mynewsgh.com

2019-02-11

Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh has denied reports that the Ghanaian government would reduce university education to four years.

According to reports in the Ghanaian media, the minister's theme at the 2019 Danquah Institute Leadership Conference was "World-clbad Education and the Imperative for the Next Generation of Leaders". four years, why should we spend four years studying at the undergraduate level? We will meet with university professors and start challenging them because Ghana is not an island.

He explained that "because we have learned [from] our story, they took two years to earn a degree at the University of Ghana. KNUST took three years because at the University of Ghana, they pbaded a first university exam which was not awarded to them and who always went out with a doctorate ".

But a statement from the department's Communications Branch indicates that the minister has been misinterpreted.

According to the statement, the minister wanted to launch a national conversation about the need to reduce university education to three years instead of four years, currently managed by different universities.

When issuing the national higher diploma to students who complete their upper secondary education in Ghana, the statement stated that the minister had requested the issuance of a national higher diploma for public dialogue on whether each student in SHS had to pbad an entrance exam at the university.