Research fund for academia needed - Ashigbey

The Managing Director of the Graphic Communicationss Group Limited (GCGL), Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, has called for the establishment of a research fund for academia to assist lecturers interested in conducting research.

According to him, the present situation where lecturers in public tertiary institutions have to fight for research allowance must not be encouraged.

Mr Ashigbey made the call when the executive board of the Dominion University College (DUC), led by Dr Ekow Spio-Garbrah, paid a courtesy call on him in Accra yesterday.

Mr Ashigbey was also worried that many graduates, even at the master’s degree level, pursued academic programmes not necessarily to add to their knowledge  but did so to earn