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General News of Sunday, April 14, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-04-14
Kwesi Yankah
The state minister for higher education, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has put up a fierce defense against the government's decision to rename higher education institutions after remarkable national figures.
Speaking on TV3, based in Accra, Professor Yankah said that naming public institutions after national figures was an honorable thing to do.
"We have reached a point where I think we should honor our heroes in a way that is very different from what we have done in the past: identify universities at the top of academic law and name them according to individuals and notable society significant feat in the country and that's when universities are named after personalities have come in. We have not done it well enough. "
Four public universities in the country will be renamed after the adoption and adoption by Parliament of the draft law on public universities, without any amendments.
The selected institutions include the University of Development Studies, the University of Accra's Professional Studies, the University of Health and Allied Sciences, as well as the University of Hawaii. Energy and natural resources.
Rawlings in Gov't: "Thanks but do not rename UDS after me"
The former president, Jerry John Rawlings, has already asked the Department of Education not to rename the University of Development Studies (UDS) in his honor.
According to him, he does not want the institution to be renamed after him because he does not want a monument bearing his name.
"When the Minister of Education drew the attention of the former president on the proposal to nominate the UDS in 2017, he thanked the president and the government for this honor, but politely declined the offer because it had a longstanding tenet: having national monuments and facilities bearing his name. "
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