The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has announced that it has approved over 1000 courses to be studied in various tertiary institutions.
GTEC said it will begin receiving applications from various tertiary institutions for the new programmes in February 2024.
The Acting Director-General, Prof. Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai disclosed this in a media briefing in Kumasi on Monday, January 22.
According to Prof. Jinapor Abdulai, the Commission before approval of these new programmes will ensure that a new body for policy approval will be set up to ensure that tertiary institutions stay within their mandates.
“Beginning February 1, the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission will be receiving new applications from public institutions. However, as we accept these new programmes there is something that is going to inform the whole practice.
“We are going to set up a new body that will be dealing with policy approval. We want institutions to stay in their mandate. Institutions cannot be doing anything and everything,” he stated.
Prof. Jinapor Abdulai explained that the policy approval body which will be set up will oversee that the programmes align with the country’s developmental aspirations and does not add up to the saturated market of some ‘irrelevant’ programmes.