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Lifeline for MUC students

The intervention of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) and the National Accreditation Board (NAB) has given students of the Meridian University College (MUC) a lifeline to their academic pursuits in the face of the dissolution of the college.

After a meeting at Kasoa last Wednesday, officials of NAB, which is the regulatory body; the UCC, which is the mentoring institution, and MUC agreed on a number of measures that would ensure that the students would continue their academic pursuits.

The meeting, which lasted more than two hours,  was a swift response by NAB and UCC after the authorities of MUC had officially informed the two institutions about the dissolution of the college per a letter delivered to them last Tuesday.

The Deputy Registrar of UCC in charge of Institutional Affiliation, Dr Sena Kpeglo, told the Daily Graphic after the meeting that “our obligation is for the welfare of the students.”

Decisions of meeting

Dr Kpeglo said the meeting decided that, tentatively, the students, numbering 46, should be transferred to the West End University College (WEUC), also at Kasoa, to continue their academic programmes.

She said WEUC was required to confirm its approval of the transfer and submit a proposal on how it would absorb the students and those who needed to complete their semester programmes by the next scheduled meeting of the three institutions on September 1, 2014.

Dr Kpeglo also stated that UCC had also undertaken to organise the resit examinations for the students and ensure that those who had completed Level 400 would graduate with their counterparts at UCC.

She, however, noted that those who had a backlog of resit examinations to write would have to do so at WEUC, which is also affiliated to UCC, and that they would not be part of the graduating class.

Dissolution

The Chancellor of the MUC has decided to dissolve the college, citing low enrolment and financial challenges as the bases for the action described by education experts as unprecedented.

A ‘Special Notice’ posted on the college’s notice board reads in part: “Students are hereby informed that it has become necessary for the Chancellor to dissolve the college due to low patronage; resulting in low enrolment, inability of the college to raise funds to support the Chancellor and the precarious current financial position of the Chancellor.”

Until the intervention of NAB and UCC, some of the affected students were considering legal action against the authorities of the college to safeguard their academic interest.

 

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