{"id":667087,"date":"2019-07-29T15:43:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Former President Kufuor (seated left) congratulating some of the graduates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former President John Agyekum\nKufuor has called on the government to make it possible for universities to\nretain the services of teaching"},"modified":"2019-07-29T15:43:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T15:43:56","slug":"kufuor-fights-for-university-lecturers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/29\/kufuor-fights-for-university-lecturers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kufuor Fights For University Lecturers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Former President Kufuor (seated left) congratulating some of the graduates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former President John Agyekum<br \/>\nKufuor has called on the government to make it possible for universities to<br \/>\nretain the services of teaching personnel at least at the age of 70 years as<br \/>\npertained in many other countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge the government to take a<br \/>\ncritical look at university teachers who are retained on contract to work in<br \/>\nthe public universities after attaining the retirement age of 60 years. These<br \/>\nteachers tend to be \u2018<em>la cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me\u2019\u00a0<\/em>in our universities and<br \/>\nare mostly the ones handling postgraduate programmes and supervising PhD<br \/>\nstudents due to their experience and expertise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Kufuor who is also<br \/>\nthe Chancellor of the University of Science and Technology (UMaT) in Tarkwa in<br \/>\nthe Western Region made the appeal at the 11th Congregation of the university<br \/>\non Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He also called on the government to<br \/>\nprioritize increment in the Academic Facility User fees to enable public<br \/>\nuniversities to continue to deliver on their mandate of providing quality<br \/>\neducation.<\/p>\n<p>He said for Ghana to realize the<br \/>\nlaudable \u201cGhana Beyond Aid\u201d agenda there was the need for massive<br \/>\ninvestment in the institutions to carry out quality scientific research and<br \/>\ntraining.<\/p>\n<p>The investment, he indicated, would<br \/>\nalso improve the universities\u2019 capacity for innovation and<br \/>\npromote university-industry\u00a0collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>He praised the administrators and<br \/>\nstaff of UMaT for working assiduously to achieve the vision of becoming the<br \/>\npremiere institute of technology in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded with the Board of the<br \/>\nMineral Development Fund to urgently consider releasing the necessary funds to<br \/>\nspeed up the completion of the legacy projects on campus.<\/p>\n<p>A Deputy Minister of Education,<br \/>\nGifty Twum Ampofo, said that the government appreciates the need for some staff<br \/>\nbeyond the age of 65 to be retained but added that \u201cwe are advised that there<br \/>\nare constitutional implications of maintaining such staff on government<br \/>\npayroll, and that rather, they should be paid from Internally Generated Funds<br \/>\n(IGF).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that there would have to<br \/>\nbe a constitutional amendment to increase the age of retirement to bring such<br \/>\nfaculty members within the constitutional framework, and that\u00a0Parliament<br \/>\nwas in the process of considering that.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice-Chancellor, Prof Jerry<br \/>\nKuma, mentioned that the university through a series of innovative processes in<br \/>\nteaching had produced graduates whose quality outmatched their competitors<br \/>\ntrained elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 494 students graduated at<br \/>\nvarious levels. Out of the number, five were awarded Doctor of Philosophy<br \/>\nDegrees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-nine of\u00a0them were awarded Master of Science or Master of Philosophy Degrees. Four hundred and forty-seven (447) were awarded\u00a0Bachelor of Science Degrees in their respective engineering programmes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Tarkwa <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Kufuor (seated left) congratulating some of the graduates Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has called on the government to make it possible for universities to retain the services of teaching personnel at least at the age of 70 years as pertained in many other countries. \u201cI urge the government to take a critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":667088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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