The Ministry of Education has granted permission to all tertiary institutions in the country to re-open the 2014 /2015 academic year.
The decision was taken after a meeting by the inter-ministerial team on Ebola.
Tertiary institutions were asked to suspend their re-opening dates due to fears of a possible spread of the disease by students who may come from the affected West African countries.
But a press statement signed by the Minister of Education, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman, indicated that “government through the inter-ministerial team on Ebola Viral Disease has assessed the agreed cooperation with government and the preparedness measures of public and private tertiary institutions in Ghana and wishes to convey to you that the 2014/2015 academic year can now commence from the 27th of August 2014”.
The Minister further promised to provide universities with health professionals and the requisite protective equipment in “due course.”
Meanwhile the Acting Registrar of the University of Ghana, Enoch Amartey says the university will not re-open on the proposed date given by the Ministry of Education because of the strike by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG).
“Whether they say there is Ebola or not, the University of Ghana is still maintaining its position that it is not because of Ebola that they have not reopen but because of UTAG strike,” he said.
He stated that the University of Ghana will only resume if government takes measures to resolve the strike.
By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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