The National Service Authority (NSA) has blocked the deployment of graduates from 13 tertiary institutions for national service after the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) confirmed that the institutions do not currently have accredited status.
The affected institutions include the Multimedia Institute of Ghana, Abbeam Institute of Technology, Star College of Communication, Standard College of Technology, Institute of Commercial Management (UK) and Christ Apostolic University College.
Others are the Oxford Institute of Business and Journalism, Heaf Professional Colleges, NIIT Open Labs Ghana, Community University College (Takoradi), SS Peter and Paul Pastoral and Social Institute, Adonai University College of Research and Entrepreneurship and the College of Tropical Agriculture.
The development means graduates submitted by the affected institutions will not be deployed for national service until their accreditation status is regularised and confirmed by GTEC.
In a statement dated August, 11, 2026, the Director-General of the NSA, Ms Ruth Dela Seddoh, said the authority engaged GTEC to verify the accreditation status of tertiary institutions following requests from schools seeking to deploy their graduating students for national service.
Ms Seddoh said the NSA was “unable to deploy graduates submitted by these institutions for national service at this time”.
She said the decision was based solely on accreditation information supplied by GTEC, the statutory body responsible for regulating and accrediting tertiary education institutions in Ghana.
The NSA said graduates from the affected institutions could still be considered for national service after their schools resolved outstanding accreditation issues with GTEC.
It said deployment would proceed after GTEC formally communicated confirmation of the institutions’ accredited status to the NSA and the graduates met the applicable national service requirements.
The authority has asked the affected institutions to engage directly with GTEC to address and regularise their accreditation status.
Prospective national service personnel from the affected schools have also been advised to contact their institutions to establish the status of their accreditation.
They have been asked to await official communication from the NSA after GTEC confirms the accreditation status of their institutions.
The NSA said its verification and deployment processes were guided by regulatory requirements and were intended “to safeguard the integrity, credibility and transparency of the National Service Programme”.
Ms Seddoh said the NSA would continue to work with GTEC and other relevant stakeholders to ensure that only graduates from duly accredited tertiary institutions were mobilised for national service.
She said graduates whose institutions subsequently regularised their accreditation status would be given the opportunity to be considered for deployment, subject to the applicable requirements.
