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The Ghana National Union of Students (NUGS) has formed a five-member committee to critically review the controversial draft law on public universities.
According to NUGS, the committee would bring together the views of students and student leaders from across the country to ensure that concerns, views and suggestions are formally communicated to the Ministry of Education.
Committee members include John Mark Bekui, a lawyer and past chair of the University of Ghana Student Representative Council; Courage Kwasi Nobi, former secretary general of NUGS; Pius Nimako, law student at Central University College; Kobby Otchere Marfo, a former student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and Knollis Delle, currently president of the University's Parliament of Development Studies.
In a statement signed by its chairman and press officer, Tinkaro Asaro Osei and Kobby Otchere Marfo, respectively, with a copy to thepressradio.com, NUGS explained that "the committee should complete its work and report to the President of the Union for transmission to the NUGS Central Committee for action."
The Ministry of Education explained that the draft law on public universities aimed to harmonize the management of public universities.
Explaining the rationale for the bill during an exclusive interview in Accra yesterday, the State Minister for Higher Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, said that this project The purpose of the Act was not to restrict academic freedom and the autonomy of public universities.
But the union says, "Academic development is about improving student governance and development, so the union needs to pay a lot of attention to this bill." The statement added.
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