Government urged to pay salaries of private university lecturers
The Executive Chairman of the Radford University College in Accra, Nana Dwomo Sarpong, has made a passionate appeal to the government to pay the salaries of lecturers and staff of private universities in the country to enable such institutions to reduce their fees.
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Nana Sarpong also appealed to the government to provide adequate financial support to students pursuing programmes in private tertiary institutions to enable them to focus on building their capacities to acquire employable skills.
Making the appeal when authorities of the college signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with their counterparts at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Nana Sarpong said the government’s support to private tertiary institutions would enhance their expansion and growth .
This, he noted ,would enable such institutions to absorb the youth who had the ability of building their capacity more meaningfully but had no access to public tertiary institutions in spite of having better grades
The MoU which covered a four-year period provides avenues for the KNUST to appoint representatives to the Faculties of Radford University College to moderate their programmes.
It also, among others, offers a platform for the KNUST to audit the college and vet their administration with the view to ensuring sanity that would enhance academic work in the college.
With the signing of the MoU, the KNUST will have keen interest in the programmes being offered by the Radford University College, including B.A. in Business Administration, Geological Environmental Studies, B.A. Graphic Design and B.A. Fashion Design.
For his part, the Vice Chancellor of the KNUST, Prof. William Oto-Ellis, commended the authorities of private tertiary institutions for complementing the efforts of public universities in providing quality education to the youth.
He said it was their efforts that had reduced pressure on public universities.
“Many of our candidates have very good grades but because of inadequate space and logistics, we cannot admit all such candidates,” he explained.
He said it was for this reason that private tertiary institutions should be supported and properly groomed for them to have the capacity of providing the requisite education that could build the capacity of students admitted.
Professor Oto-Ellis said the rationale behind their affiliation with private tertiary institutions was also to support them to grow and assert their independence in the near future.
By George Ernest Asare/Daily Graphic/Ghana