Former Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwasi Yankah has said that he is worried about the integrity of some of the programmes in the various public universities in Ghana.
He said the universities submit budgetary allocations to the government without making reference to the programmes.
The government, he said, may not have money to fund these programmes hence, may not be accredited.
He was commenting on the Auditor-General’s report which uncovered that the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Ghana public universities are running unaccredited programmes.
“We are running a very haphazard budget, at the end if the year you submit your budgetary needs to government without making reference to the programme that you have instituted which have budgetary implications because the government may not have money for the for the programme,
“So, for as long as these propgrammes have not been recognized and accredited by byGhana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), it probably means we are probably over shifting the budget with the expenditure that the government has no idea.
“So I am worried particularly about the the integrity of the programmes and the readiness of budgetary considerations by government. So we are just running haywire haphazardly without any regulation.”
At the University of Ghana, out of the 374 courses not accredited, 14 were Diploma programmes, 80 were Undergraduate courses, 213 were Post-Graduate courses, and 67 were PhD courses.
At KNUST, out of the 360 programmes run by the University, only 61 were accredited, 190 were sent to National Accreditation Board (NAB) for accreditation and re-accreditation with 109 yet to be sent to NAB for accreditation.
Following this revelation, Africa Education Watch called for court actions to be instituted against educational institutions that run courses and programmes that have not been accredited by the National Accreditation Board (NAB) or GTEC.
By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana