According to a professor at the University of Ghana (UG), Ransford Gyampo, the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Adutwum, lacks the authority to compel universities to lower the cost of their tuition.
The only minister with such authority, according to Professor Ransford Gyampo, is the finance minister. Act 1080, which oversees public universities, he claimed, established this.
“It is important for us to point out the fact that in Act 1080, the only minister that is given the authority over fees is the Minister of Finance and not the Education Minister,” he said in an interview with Citi FM.
Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Minister of Education, issued a directive on January 5 ordering Management of the University of Ghana (UG) to abide by the 15 percent increase in tertiary fees.
His instruction came after a meeting over the tertiary fees kerfuffle with all public universities.
Recall that the Ghana Tertiary Education Council (GTEC) ordered all public tertiary institutions to increase fees for the upcoming academic year by no more than 15%.
However, some University of Ghana students claim that the school’s administration is charging more than the permitted rates for the upcoming academic year.