The Ghana Tertiary Education Committee (GTEC) has instructed all universities to stop operating satellite campuses located on Senior High School (SHS) premises and other unauthorized sites.
This directive comes as GTEC deems such activities unlawful, as these universities are operating beyond their accredited facilities.
Head of GTEC’s Institutional Accreditation Department, Harry Kwame Opoku, revealed in an interview with Citi News that several universities, including the University of Cape Coast, have begun to comply with the directive.
“It has come to the attention of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission that public institutions are operating campuses at the premises of senior high schools, junior high schools, and non-tertiary centres, non-tertiary institutions, the centres of non-tertiary institutions, which we thought was bringing out the quality of education.
“So when this came to our attention we invited the vice-chancellors of these institutions to talk and find a way out of this problem.
They have done so by signing a memorandum of understanding to ensure they adhere to the order.
“So what we did was to give some MoU for the vice-chancellors to come over and sign toward cessation of this activity. So what we have done is that for students who have already been admitted to these centres, they will be sorted out.”
Harry Kwame Opoku added that “We are going to give them a four-year plan to teach the students. We have directed that these institutions do not admit or do not engage in fresh admission of students. We are also going to conduct an academic audit based on all the expenses.”