{"id":1195896,"date":"2022-08-31T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/knust-running-299-unaccredited-courses-auditor-general-reveals\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:49:00","slug":"knust-running-299-unaccredited-courses-auditor-general-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/31\/knust-running-299-unaccredited-courses-auditor-general-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"KNUST running 299 unaccredited courses \u2013 Auditor General reveals \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>There are 299-degree programs offered by Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology that have not been approved by the National Accreditation Board.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The report for 2021 from the Auditor General has been posted on their website, revealing this data.<\/p>\n<p>According to the country\u2019s top auditor, only 61 of the University\u2019s 360 programs are recognized by the appropriate accrediting bodies; 190 of these programs have been submitted to the National Accreditation Board (NAB) for accreditation and reaccreditation, while the remaining 109 have not yet been submitted.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0Yes, he was my mate at KNUST \u2013 Blakk Rasta defends Dr. UN<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>In light of this information, the Auditor-General has suggested that the University\u2019s Administration stop offering courses that are either not certified or for which the accreditation has expired in order to prevent fines from the relevant accrediting body.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read below excerpts of the Auditory General\u2019s Report<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF ScIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KNUST)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Main Administration<\/p>\n<ol start=\"100\">\n<li><strong>We noted that out of the 360 programmes running by the university, only 61 have been accredited and 190 sent to National Accreditation Board (NAB) for accreditation and reaccreditation, with 109 yet to be sent to NAB for accreditation. We recommended to Management to cease running programmes that are not accredited or having their accredited certificates expire until they are accredited or renewed, to avoid sanctions by NAB.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<figure id=\"attachment_277865\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-277865\" style=\"width: 826px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" class=\"size-full wp-image-277865\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"379\"  data-lazy- src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-31-at-6.07.06-PM.png\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"5\" class=\"size-full wp-image-277865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screenshot-2022-08-31-at-6.07.06-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"379\"  \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-277865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KNUST running 299 unaccredited Courses \u2013 Auditor General reveals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; There are 299-degree programs offered by Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology that have not been approved by the National Accreditation Board. The report for 2021 from the Auditor General has been posted on their website, revealing this data. According to the country\u2019s top auditor, only 61 of the University\u2019s 360 programs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13784,7009,1413,8907,51,8377,24854],"class_list":["post-1195896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-auditor","tag-courses","tag-general","tag-knust","tag-reveals","tag-running","tag-unaccredited"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}