Why do the University of Ghana and KNUST offer unaccredited programs?
The University of Ghana, Legon, and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology have been refered to in the Auditor General's most recent report for running many unaccredited projects.
As per the report, the college of Ghana is as of now running 374 unaccredited projects while KNUST is running 299 unaccredited projects.
With disarray emerging from different fronts after this disclosure, many have considered how two of the highest tertiary organizations in the nation have pulled off this training such a long time.
In any case, addressing Samson Lardy Anyenini on JoyNews' Newsfile on Saturday, September 3, 2022, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor accountable for Academic and Students Affairs at the University of Ghana, Prof Gordon Awandare, made sense of why the circumstance is so.
He expressed that the regulatory course of acquiring authorizations for college programs in Ghana makes the cycle extremely lengthy, accordingly, tertiary establishments can't get them in time.
"You ought to find an example of a program and take a gander at its lifecycle of certification, from when it started to when it got license. You'll see that it requires a long time for these action items."
Prof Awandare uncovered that authorizations for college programs are just legitimate for three years and because of the long course of getting one, the college is generally unfit to reestablish them following they terminate.
"At the point when you get the principal certification for a program it's for just three years which truly intends that when you get the license, fundamentally, you need to begin the interaction all once again to get reaccreditation or recharging.
"There's a rush of projects that are going through this and the failures come to bear and afterward you have these breaches in light of the fact that the program has not accomplished the reestablishment in time before the past license has lapsed," he added.
Prof Awandare anyway noticed that the University of Ghana is working with the Ghana Tertiary Commission (GTEC) to restore the terminated certification of a portion of its courses.
"Assuming you take a gander at a large number of the projects that have been recorded for UG specifically, the vast majority of them lapsed around 2018, 2019 and assuming you check a considerable lot of them are currently being recharged so they've submitted reports to GTEC and they are at different phases of restoration.
"We've been working intimately with GTEC, we have had a few gatherings with them and we have acknowledged the holes and we're attempting to carry everything to ordinary. As opposed to us allotting faults, we ought to share the obligation and get ourselves out from underneath this rubble," He expressed.
The Pro-Vice-Chancellor expressed specialists of UG have set up measures to stay away from such events in future.
"We have now made a license work area at the workplace of the recorder who works with my office to quick track the cycle and guarantee that correspondences are not lost simultaneously. There were occurrences where letters will come from GTEC and they are shipped off the divisions, others are shipped off the library, some are shipped off the Vice Chancellor's office and afterward a while go by and the letter doesn't get to its legitimate objective for the required move to be initiated."
Talking on similar show, the University Relations Officer of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Norris Bekoe, who concurred with Prof Awandare, required the decentralization and digitalisation of the license cycle to make it simpler for all.
"There the requirement for us to digitize these projects. To make it very simple for us to achieve. In any case, consistently the Auditor General will hail projects and we will have a similar conversation," he focused.
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