{"id":48876,"date":"2014-09-18T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T10:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=48876"},"modified":"2014-09-18T10:55:18","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T10:55:18","slug":"accreditation-board-disowns-4-award-dishing-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=48876","title":{"rendered":"Accreditation Board disowns 4 \u2018award-dishing\u2019 universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Accreditation Board (NAB) has warned the public against four universities that have not been accredited, yet have gone ahead to confer honorary degrees on some individuals in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Board, some of the foreign institutions confer such honorary degrees, particularly doctorate, on prominent personalities \u201cwith the intent to legitimize and popularize the operations of the institutions in Ghana, and thereby seek to attract unsuspecting students to enroll in them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The four universities are; Day Spring Christian University of Mississippi, Pan African Clergy Council and Bible College, Global Centre for Transformational Leadership and the World Council for Evangelical Clergy.<\/p>\n

\"doctorate<\/a><\/p>\n

The Day Spring Christian University of Mississippi recently conferred honorary doctorate degrees on Ghana\u2019s Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Sherry Ayittey; National Disaster Management Organisation boss, Kofi Portuphy; Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress, Kofi Asamoah; Secretary General of the Ghana Federation of Labour, Abraham Koomson and Joy FM\u2019s international correspondent Jefferson Sackey.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”aqQJ5Eb7lD92pLpqIoMkXQgF89KQUWuf”]NAB in an earlier statement on September 8, expressed concern about the conferment of honorary degrees and emeritus professorships\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/a>by institutions which do not have the accreditation to do so.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Executive Secretary of NAB,\u00a0Kwame Dattey,\u00a0said that the situation was \u201cin contravention of the Tertiary Institutions (Establishment and Accreditation Regulations, 2010 \u2013 LI 1984, Section 13 (1&2) and Section 19 (1&2).\u201d<\/p>\n

NAB has since published the list of eligible institutions established in Ghana that can confer honorary degrees below:<\/p>\n

University of Ghana, Legon<\/p>\n

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology<\/p>\n

University of Cape Coast<\/p>\n

University of Education, Winneba<\/p>\n

University for Development Studies<\/p>\n

University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa<\/p>\n

University of Professional Studies, Accra<\/p>\n

University of Health and Allied Sciences<\/p>\n

University of Energy and Natural Resources<\/p>\n

Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration<\/p>\n

Ghana Institute of Journalism<\/p>\n

Valley View University<\/p>\n

Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Research Institute<\/p>\n

Trinity Theological College<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The National Accreditation Board (NAB) has warned the public against four universities that have not been accredited, yet have gone ahead to confer honorary degrees on some individuals in the country. According to the Board, some of the foreign institutions confer such honorary degrees, particularly doctorate, on prominent personalities \u201cwith the intent to legitimize and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":48877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,16],"class_list":["post-48876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}