{"id":1197237,"date":"2022-09-02T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/stop-the-blame-game-and-get-your-programmes-accredited-gtec-to-ug-and-knust\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T13:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T13:31:13","slug":"stop-the-blame-game-and-get-your-programmes-accredited-gtec-to-ug-and-knust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/02\/stop-the-blame-game-and-get-your-programmes-accredited-gtec-to-ug-and-knust\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stop the blame game and get your programmes accredited&#8217; &#8211; GTEC to UG and KNUST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"'Stop the blame game and get your programmes accredited' - GTEC to UG and KNUST\" title=\"'Stop the blame game and get your programmes accredited' - GTEC to UG and KNUST\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has advised authorities of the University of Ghana (UG) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to stop blaming them for the non-accredited status of some of the programmes they run.<\/p>\n<p>The two schools were cited by the Auditor-General for running programmes without accreditation and were advised to do the needful. <\/p>\n<p>Out of 360 programmes run by the KNUST, only 61 are accredited, while the University of Ghana has 374 of its programmes unaccredited.<\/p>\n<p>However, the two educational institutions claim they have applied for renewal but GTEC\u2019s administration lapses have delayed the accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to these claims, GTEC\u2019s Director General, Professor Mohammed Salifu stressed that his outfit is not to blame.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-02-at-13.19.28.jpeg\" alt=\"'Stop the blame game and get your programmes accredited' - GTEC to UG and KNUST\" class=\"wp-image-10032164019\" width=\"836\" height=\"585\"   title=\"'Stop the blame game and get your programmes accredited' - GTEC to UG and KNUST\"\/><figcaption>Photo Credit: GTEC\u2019s website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe universities have been summoned to the Accreditation Committee of the Commission. The excuses that are being given are not the excuses that were given here. Some of the programmes, the accreditation elapsed as far back as 2014\/2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not acceptable, how is it that you can blame issues on GTEC. They should stop the blame game, we have engaged them several times. So let\u2019s stop the blame game and deal with the issues,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1336386910&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Professor Mohammed Salifu has meanwhile explained that although the two public universities have taken steps to rectify the situation, there will still be sanctions for the schools.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has advised authorities of the University of Ghana (UG) and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to stop blaming them for the non-accredited status of some of the programmes they run. The two schools were cited by the Auditor-General for running programmes without accreditation and were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1197240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[24785,441,281,25043,8907,6426,534],"class_list":["post-1197237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-accredited","tag-blame","tag-game","tag-gtec","tag-knust","tag-programmes","tag-stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197237","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=1197237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}