{"id":259388,"date":"2016-10-18T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=259388"},"modified":"2016-10-18T13:48:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:48:16","slug":"lift-ban-on-recruitment-of-teachers-poly-rector-tells-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/lift-ban-on-recruitment-of-teachers-poly-rector-tells-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lift ban on recruitment of teachers \u2013 Poly rector tells gov\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rector of Cape Coast Polytechnic, Professor Lawrence Kojo Atepor has called on the\u00a0government to lift the moratorium on employment of <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/25\/review-ban-on-recruitment-of-lecturers-utag-to-govt\/\">new lecturers<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to tertiary institutions.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this will help increase the lecturer-student ratio on the various campuses especially polytechnics that are being upgraded to technical universities.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;eMQSkzuJ2GI2t6DDmMvuFyMZU2AvKCK5&#8243;]Addressing the academic community during a visit of the Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur to the school on Monday, Professor Atepor noted that, upgrading the status of the school requires an expansion of facilities and teaching staff to guarantee quality education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCape Coast Polytechnic in a few weeks to come will be known as a technical University. This means that more teaching and administrative staff will be required, we are therefore appealing to you to use your good office to assist us to get financial clearance to employ more staff to support our technical University,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that \u201cin addition to staffing we also require additional hostel facilities to accommodate the growing number of students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cape Coast Polytechnic is among six institutions named by the government to be converted to technical universities.<\/p>\n<p>The government recently approved the recruitment of some <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/27\/no-freeze-on-recruitment-of-lecturers-govt-denies-utag-claim\/\">1,200 lecturers<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for the various tertiary institutions across the country but the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) described the number is woefully inadequate, saying that the various tertiary institutions require far more than the number granted by government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Universities in Ghana face collapse of lecturer recruitment ban\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu also warned that administration of public universities in Ghana will <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/10\/14\/universities-in-ghana-face-collapse-if-ug-vice-chancellor\/\">grind to a halt<\/a><\/strong><\/span> if the government fails to permit universities to employ more lecturers.<\/p>\n<p>He said most universities still grapple with high student-to-teacher ratio which keeps increasing every year.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed worry government\u2019s moratorium on the recruitment of teachers by public universities continue to cause a strain on the activities of the Universities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rector of Cape Coast Polytechnic, Professor Lawrence Kojo Atepor has called on the\u00a0government to lift the moratorium on employment of new lecturers to tertiary institutions. 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