Professor Kwesi Yankah (with mic) addressing a press conference in Accra. Those with him are Rev. Dr Peter Ohene Kyei (left), Rector, Pentecost University; Prof. Kofi Oduro-Afriyie (2nd left), Vice-Chancellor Winsconsin International University; Dr Osei K. Darkwa (2nd right), President of the Ghana Telecom University College, and Professor Partrick Awuah, President of the Ashesi University College.

Phase out affiliation of private varsities to public ones

Severious Kale-Dery Dec - 10 - 2014 , 00:19 0 minutes read

THE Council of Independent Universities (CIU) has called on the government to initiate a process to gradually phase out the system of affiliating private universities to public ones and restructure the National Accreditation Board (NAB) to make it more effective.

It said private universities were often subjected to long processes of approval by mentoring institutions before they were taken through a similar approval process by the NAB.

The Chairman of the CIU, Professor Kwesi Yankah, made the call at a news conference in Accra yesterday.

The conference provided a platform for the CIU to vent out the frustrations its members go through at the hands of their mentoring institutions and the NAB.

Bureaucracy

Flanked by the executives of the CIU, Prof Yankah said over the years the process of affiliation, which originally was intended as a service to support new universities, had posed problems, particularly to the private universities, sometime