{"id":1265749,"date":"2022-12-15T21:29:06","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/tension-brews-as-legon-makes-changes-to-students-residence\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T21:29:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T21:29:06","slug":"tension-brews-as-legon-makes-changes-to-students-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/15\/tension-brews-as-legon-makes-changes-to-students-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension brews as Legon makes changes to students&#8217; residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Legon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1671139746_533_Legon-696x391.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/1671139746_533_Legon-696x391.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Legon\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>The University of Ghana, Legon (UG) has announced a review of students\u2019 residence arrangements, beginning the 2022\/23 academic year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to a circular issued by the Registrar on Wednesday, December 14, all continuing students of Commonwealth Hall will not return to their rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing male students of Mensah Sarbah Hall will also be affected by this directive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\">They are to be randomly assigned to available rooms in any of the UGEL and private hostels,\u201d the circular said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cContinuing female students of Mensah <\/span>Sarbah Hall and students with special needs in both halls will not be affected by this measure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The circular further instructed that only Level 100 and graduate students will be assigned to these halls while measures are put in place to ensure that only freshers and graduate students occupy traditional halls.<\/p>\n<p>This will, therefore, see the implementation of a full \u2018in-out-out-out\u2019 policy by 2025\/2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span xml:lang=\"EN-GB\" data-contrast=\"auto\">Subsequently,\u00a0<\/span>undergraduate students will vacate the halls at the end of Level 100 and may secure accommodation in the private hostels from Level 200 until completion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The University is also installing CCTV cameras and electronic access control systems in all halls \u201cto improve upon security\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"607\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Commonwealth-Hall-legon.jpg\" data- class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-258847 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-258847\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Commonwealth-Hall-legon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"607\"  \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>All these arrangements have been made as a result of the violence that erupted between students of Commonwealth Hall and Mensah Sarbah Hall on Friday, August 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Ghana, Legon (UG) has announced a review of students\u2019 residence arrangements, beginning the 2022\/23 academic year. According to a circular issued by the Registrar on Wednesday, December 14, all continuing students of Commonwealth Hall will not return to their rooms. Continuing male students of Mensah Sarbah Hall will also be affected by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265749","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=1265749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}