Kumasi Poly to relocate to Kuntenase
Kumasi Polytechnic (K-Poly) has completed discussions with a Canadian firm to relocate its current campus to a 300-acre land at Kuntenase in the Bosomtwe District within the next two years.
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Briefing the media just after talks with the Canadian team and government officials in charge of Public Private Partnership (PPP) policy, the Rector of K-Poly, Professor Nicholas N. N. Nsowah-Nuamah, noted that under the plan, the new campus would have 10 faculties.
Other facilities
Other facilities are hostels that would accommodate 10,000 students on campus, a shopping mall, an administration block, offices for financial institutions and health and other facilities that would position the campus as a complete modern hi-tech village.
The media visited Pease where K-Poly, in partnership with a Chinese electronic engineering firm, SONTECH, has built and furnished structures to initially assemble desktop computers, electronic tablets, cellular phones, and later work on Liquid-crystal-display television (LCD TV) and digital radio.
Under the partnership, SONTECH is providing 60 per cent of the finances, with the K-Poly providing the remaining 40 per cent.
Currently, work on the first phase of the assembling plant has been completed and the team of Chinese experts is waiting to take delivery of the remaining fittings.
Practical training
The project is geared towards providing practical training for students of
K-Poly’s Institute of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development.
It also has large fish ponds for the rearing of tilapia to be managed and used by the Agro-preneurship Department for teaching and practical training.
According to the rector, the institution is sourcing for GH¢3 million from the Export and Development Investment Fund (EDIF) to meet its part of the deal which is 40 per cent.
Three-star hotel
Under the same PPP, the polytechnic has an agreement with a South African hospitality firm to build a three-star hotel on its 1.5 acres at Asokwa in the Kumasi metropolis to serve as a first– class hospitality centre, and which will also provide an avenue for practical training for students studying at the Department of Hotel Catering and Institutional Management of the polytechnic.
