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Reverend Prof. Emmanuel Adow Obeng, president of Presbyterian University College, reiterated Saturday the call launched at the country's technical universities to avoid the "temptation" to offer non-technical courses.

He said that Ghana's future depended on technical education and that the only way to contribute significantly to national development was to remain focused on providing technical and vocational skills to young people.

The teacher. Obeng, who was addressing the 19th congregation of Ho Technical University, noted that after the conversion of polytechnics into technical universities, some were tempted to introduce non-technical courses to compete with traditional universities and warned against this practice.

He added that technical universities needed to play a complementary and non-competitive role compared to traditional universities and had asked them to focus on providing qualified human resources for national development.

Professor Obeng asked technical universities to address emerging governance issues after the conversion, especially misunderstandings between unions and administrative staff, as such confusion could affect their purpose.

It called on universities to organize regular management training sessions, develop succession plans, and guide both teaching and non-teaching staff in their new roles.

The Reverend Prof. Obeng urged technical university management boards to set up monitoring systems for speakers and seek support from government and other sources to develop faculties and universities.

In a speech read on his behalf, Professor Kwasi Yankah, Minister of State for Higher Education, stated that transitional issues, including the migration of university staff salaries, were being addressed and that the Government reaffirmed its commitment to for technical and vocational education.

He commissioned technical universities to design programs that would prepare students to take advantage of government intervention programs, such as One District, One Farm, to work on their own.

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