Private universities appeal to government for support
The President of JAYEE University, Professor Emmanuel Nicholas Abakah, has appealed to the government to support private universities in the country as a practical demonstration of the high value it has placed on the quality performance of that segment of the education sector.
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At the 8th graduation ceremony of the school last Saturday, Prof. Abakah said some private universities had encountered difficulties that had caused some of them to fold down, pointing out that such support was essential to enable private universities to develop.
The graduation was on the theme, “The role of the private university in national capacity building.”
Prof. Abakah said they were operating under exploitative tax regimes, adding that: “Those of us that are in operation can hardly raise our hands above the water as the pool of insolvency in which we are drowning is terribly deep.”
Despite these, he said, they were still committed to the training and development of quality manpower for the nation and, therefore, called on the government to set up a committee to look into their predicaments and come out with the best strategies to help resolve them.
Graduating student
Three hundred and sixty-four students from the 2015 and 2016 batches, made up of 112 males and 252 females, graduated, with 175 students (138 graduates and 37 diploma students) forming the 2015 batch, while the 2016 batch saw 189 students graduating (138 graduates and 51 diploma students).
One hundred and ninety-four students out of the 364 graduated in Business Administration, while the remaining 170 graduated in Communication Science.
The Chairman of the Governing Council of the university, Prof. Jophus Anamuah-Mensa, said national development could not take place without the participation of the private sector.
He said the private sector opened its doors to Ghanaian youth who could not gain access to public institutions because of inadequate infrastructural facilities and staffing.
At the tertiary level, there are 202 accredited tertiary institutions, out of which 107 are privately owned in the country.
According to Prof. Anamuah-Mensa, the private institutions enrol 20 per cent of tertiary students; and that, he said, was a big savings for the government.
