Government, will from the beginning of the next academic year –2017/2018, increase the amount of loans that tertiary students are eligible to take for a period of two semesters, by 50 percent. Currently, students are eligible to take a loan amount of a minimum of GH¢650 to GH¢1,000, and a maximum of GH¢ 1,600 to … Read more
Dean of Center for International Education and Collaboration (CIEC) at the University of Professional Studies (UPS), Professor Goski Alabi has questioned the affiliation system practiced in Ghana where private Universities are placed under the auspices of government Universities. Speaking at her maiden inaugural lecture at the UPS in Accra, Prof Goski Alabi described the affiliation … Read more
By Frederick K. Kofi Tse “Our political class introduced something they call free education that is free indeed?free of knowledge. It is because they are so suspicious of those institutions that the typical African politicians will not dare take their children to those schools”?P. L.O. Lumumba The debate about the appropriate funding model for the … Read more
Shortage of lecturers in the country’s major public universities is adversely affecting teaching and learning, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana has said. Central government’s freeze on employment in the public sector, including public universities, was part of the conditionalities for the three-year International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme designed to … Read more
Former President of the Private University Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG), Benjamin Panlogo-Logodam, has urged government to withdraw the 25 percent tax imposed on private universities. He wants the old regime where private universities did not pay tax to be brought back, saying a return to the tax-free system would help the institutions to grow. … Read more