The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu has warned that administration of public universities in Ghana will grind to a halt if government fails to permit universities to employ more lecturers.<\/p>\n
He said most universities still grapple with high student-to-teacher ratio which keeps increasing every year.<\/p>\n
He expressed worry government’s moratorium on the recruitment of teachers by public universities \u00a0continue to cause a strain on the activities of the Universities.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News, <\/strong>\u00a0he 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.<\/p>\n The University Teachers Association\u00a0of Ghana (UTAG), earlier hinted it may be compelled to suspend its services if the situation continues.<\/p>\n Government recently approved the recruitment of about one thousand teachers to\u00a0the various tertiary institutions in the country but Professor Oduro Owusu said government must give universities the free hands to employ more staff.<\/p>\n \u201cBasically in the universities, people are employed based on their expertise. So if someone who teaches algebra retires or passes on, you don\u2019t expect me, an entomologist to go and teach algebra.\u00a0It 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.”<\/span><\/p>\n 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,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Caleb Kudah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu has warned that administration of public universities in Ghana will grind to a halt if government fails to permit universities to employ more lecturers. He said most universities still grapple with high student-to-teacher ratio which keeps increasing every year. He expressed worry government’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":257985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[12621,273,42,619,1061,1301],"yoast_head":"\n