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Acting Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, a professor at Ghana Technology University College (GTUC), last Saturday called on the government to speed up the adoption of the GTUC Bill to allow this institution to become a full-fledged public university. .
This request is not misplaced because the adoption of the bill will allow the GTUC to grant its own certificates, diplomas and degrees, and will allow the institution to better train the human resource needs of the country.
The Daily Graphic believes that it is important that the government takes a critical look at the request of the GTUC, because the institution can be the pivot around which Ghana can develop its human resources, so that we do not let's not be left behind as the world evolves in the digital world. and technology direction.
Although we believe that the collaboration between the GTUC and Aalborg University, Denmark, as well as the University of Coventry in the United Kingdom, to organize courses is not a bad thing, we believe that when the GTUC is awarded the Presidential Charter, collaboration with other universities will be on an equal footing.
A major concern is also the fact that many private universities, which are doing very well, have been waiting for many years for the issuance of a presidential charter. Indeed, it took 18 years for the Central University, accredited in 1998 as a private university, to receive a presidential charter in 2016.
Central University thus became the fourth private university, after Valley View University, the Trinidad Theological Seminary and the Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Research Institute, to receive the Presidential Charter.
The Ashesi University has become the fifth to benefit from autonomy after receiving President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's presidential charter last year.
After having worked for at least 10 years, each university college must apply to the National Accreditation Council (NAB) for a full badessment of the institution, its programs, facilities and facilities. after which a report will be presented to the Minister of Education for later recommendation to the President.
We are not asking at all costs for all university colleges that have 10 years of existence to be accredited to award their own degrees. On the contrary, we urge the NAB to be rigorous in its processes, but we ask that we must be careful not to prematurely kill the universities in the making.
The process of affiliation of new universities to established universities is a good learning curve, but we encourage investigation of an allegation by the Council of Independent Universities of Ghana that the affiliation system has become a major source of income for the home universities, in the form of exorbitant fees. are loaded.
The 10 public mentoring universities in the country alone can not meet the higher education needs of the growing student population, and we therefore need more higher education institutions, especially in the wake of the policy of free tuition fees. SHS, which can only increase. students eligible for the university.
We congratulate the President for setting up the Higher Education Commission last year to regulate all higher education institutions in the country and speed up the processing of presidential charter applications from public universities and private.
President Akufo-Addo said the government was taking steps to speed up the granting of presidential charters to private universities because of their contribution to education and learning in the country. We hold him to his word.
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