The aircraft, Aermacchi MB-339 jet trainer, is expected to help the school offer practical training to its students as well as promote aviation engineering in the country.

Speaking on behalf of the Chief of Defence Staff at the ceremony on Thursday [November 10], the Air Vice Marshall Maxwell Mantsebi Teye Naggi said the partnership between the School and the Air Force will help equip students with the necessary experience for careers and other opportunities in the Air Force.

“There are many benefits that will accrue to both the University of Ghana and the Ghana Air Force based on the MOU that we have established. These include the availability of Ghana Air Force facilities at the school of trade training in Accra for the practical training of the College’s engineering students. The exchange of faculty resource persons between the University and school of trade training of the Air Force to build relevant capacities and to enrich course content of both schools,” he said.

He also indicated that the agreement between the two institutions will enhance professionalism of the Engineering Corps of the Ghana Air Force through internationally recognized but locally-available certification programmes.

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ebenezer Oduro-Owusu said the school will enroll the first batch of students to pursue courses in Aeronautics and Space Technology studies in the 2017/2018 academic year.

He said with the arrival of the aircraft to the university, the School of Engineering Sciences will fast-track ongoing discussions with relevant stakeholders in the aviation industry to ensure a successful running of the program.

He also said the school was working assiduously to obtain government approval and accreditation to run the programs.

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He said most universities still grapple with high student-to-teacher ratio which keeps increasing every year.

He expressed worry government’s moratorium on the recruitment of teachers by public universities  continue to cause a strain on the activities of the Universities.

Speaking to Citi News,  he noted that admission of fresh students at the University of Ghana had increased by almost 20%, increasing the worrying on the high rates of student-to-teacher ratio.

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), earlier hinted it may be compelled to suspend its services if the situation continues.

Government recently approved the recruitment of about one thousand teachers to the various tertiary institutions in the country but Professor Oduro Owusu said government must give universities the free hands to employ more staff.

“Basically in the universities, people are employed based on their expertise. So if someone who teaches algebra retires or passes on, you don’t expect me, an entomologist to go and teach algebra. It will demand that we have an algebraist to go and teach algebra. This is the understanding that people in authority would have to get and grant us some leverage to be able to employ,” he said. 

He noted that “If things continue like this for some time, I am afraid our system might grand to a halt. Because if you have very high student-lecture ratios, what it means is that you are reducing the contact hours and the implication of all this is that we will be having less quality products coming out.”

So it has an effect on the quality. So I am hoping that people in authority will understand this simple logic and grant the universities the free hand to employ to fill the gap,” he concluded.

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