{"id":320655,"date":"2016-02-29T10:50:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/eyes-on-sotn-private-universities-unhappy-with-mahama\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T10:50:56","slug":"eyes-on-sotn-private-universities-unhappy-with-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/02\/29\/eyes-on-sotn-private-universities-unhappy-with-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyes on SOTN: Private universities unhappy with Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mahama-speaking-in-parliament-sotn-2016.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div readability=\"73\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The national President of Private University Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG), Richard Odame, has expressed disappointment in President\u00a0John Dramani Mahama\u2019s government, saying it is insensitive to the plight of private students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This follows the President\u2019s non-mention of private tertiary education in his\u00a0State of the Nation Address last week.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Odame expressed his disappointment saying, \u201cWe feel very disappointed and we ask ourselves that are we really in a country where our needs as private university students are considered or we even considered in the first place as private university students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOver the years, we\u2019ve been channeling our grievances, petitioning the presidency through the Ministry of Education, although there are certain assurances certain promises that we\u2019ve received, from the State of the Nation\u2019s Address, it seems to be a lip service, one of the mere promises made, to assure us that there is hope or there\u2019s light at the end of the tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard Odame was however optimistic that subsequent Governments, other than this Mahama led administration, will adequately address the plight of private students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe ruling government really does not consider the private institutions as part of its plans, but I know that private institutions have a future, because it was during a particular administration that private universities started and these universities were excelling very well and receiving numerous benefits, but there is this new government where we do not receive these benefits, so we have a future but it depends on the administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Lauretta Timah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quicksense.net\/ --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The national President of Private University Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG), Richard Odame, has expressed disappointment in President\u00a0John Dramani Mahama\u2019s government, saying it is insensitive to the plight of private students. 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Mr Odame expressed his disappointment saying, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eyes on SOTN: Private universities unhappy with Mahama - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2016\/02\/29\/eyes-on-sotn-private-universities-unhappy-with-mahama\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Eyes on SOTN: Private universities unhappy with Mahama - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"[ad_1] The national President of Private University Students Association of Ghana (PUSAG), Richard Odame, has expressed disappointment in President\u00a0John Dramani Mahama\u2019s government, saying it is insensitive to the plight of private students. 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