Stick to high academic standards - KNUST tells affiliate institutions
The Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. W. O. Ellis, has advised institutions affiliated to the KNUST to stick to high academic standards and deliver quality education in line with national goals.
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He said maintaining quality assurance standards would also enable them to acquire full recognition to receive a charter to operate as autonomous institutions to award their own certificates.
Prof. Ellis gave the advice when the KNUST signed four-year memorandums of understanding (MoU) with four different educational institutions in the country for collaboration in research and training of students from those institutions. The pact were signed at separate ceremonies at the university in Kumasi.
The Institutions are the Medicare College of Applied Sciences at Pankorono in Kumasi, the St Margaret College at Feyease near Kumasi, the Institute of Development and Technology Management (IDTM) in Cape Coast and the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology in Accra.
Strengthening capacities
The pact, which is renewable, would enable the KNUST to strengthen the capacities of the institutions in the areas of quality training of students, monitoring of examinations, research and exchange of lecturers. It would also enable the institutions to receive support from the KNUST to effectively run some selected programmes including graphic designing, purchasing and supplying, management and medical laboratory technology.
Mr Gilbert Osei Agyedu, the Principal of the Medicare College of Applied Sciences, signed for the college, while Madam Margaret Oteng, Proprietress of the St. Margaret College, initialled for the college. Prof. John A. Micah, Rector of the Institute of Development and Technology Management, and Rev. Jonathan Ankrah, President of the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology, signed for their respective institutes.
Prof. Ellis signed for the KNUST at the ceremony which was witnessed by Mr Kobby Yebo-Okrah, Registrar of the university.
Essence of affiliation
According to the Vice Chancellor, the university’s affiliation to the colleges was not only to strengthen their capacities for quality training, but also to enhance research works, and exchange academic staff and ideas for the benefit of the institutions and the KNUST.
The Vice Chancellor warned that the university would not hesitate to withdraw its affiliation to any institution that did not meet its standards.
In their separate remarks, the representatives of the colleges made statements to the effect that they chose to affiliate with the KNUST because of its quality and high academic standards.They pledged to adhere to their rules and guidelines in order not to draw the image of the university into disrepute.
