{"id":1269161,"date":"2022-12-22T22:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T22:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/22\/abolish-fees-increment-in-public-universities-for-2022-2023-academic-year-tein-demands\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T22:48:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T22:48:50","slug":"abolish-fees-increment-in-public-universities-for-2022-2023-academic-year-tein-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/22\/abolish-fees-increment-in-public-universities-for-2022-2023-academic-year-tein-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Abolish fees increment in public universities for 2022\/2023 academic year &#8211; TEIN demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the NDC has called for the abolishment of the 15% increment in public university fees considering the current economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p>The KNUST branch of TEIN has petitioned the Parliamentary Committee on Education and the Ministry of Education to call on public universities to reconsider their decision to increase fees.<\/p>\n<p>The President of TEIN KNUST, Selma Yoda, in a press release, says the 15% increment will impose risks to the basic right to education considering the difficulty parents are going through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this case, students of various public universities risk a denial of their basic right to education as a result of the 15% approved increase by parliament,\u201d said the statement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/NDC-TEIN-1-720x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Abolish fees increment in public universities for 2022\/2023 academic year - TEIN demands\" class=\"wp-image-10032233357 lazy\"  data- title=\"Abolish fees increment in public universities for 2022\/2023 academic year - TEIN demands\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>TEIN says the increase in fees coupled with the inability of public universities to provide adequate accommodation for students result in worsening woes of parents as education becomes more of a privilege than a right.<\/p>\n<p>The petition called on opinion leaders to help voice out this most urgent plea.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/NDC-TEIN-2-736x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Abolish fees increment in public universities for 2022\/2023 academic year - TEIN demands\" class=\"wp-image-10032233359 lazy\"  data- title=\"Abolish fees increment in public universities for 2022\/2023 academic year - TEIN demands\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tertiary Education Institutions Network (TEIN) of the NDC has called for the abolishment of the 15% increment in public university fees considering the current economic hardship. The KNUST branch of TEIN has petitioned the Parliamentary Committee on Education and the Ministry of Education to call on public universities to reconsider their decision to increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1269162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269161","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=1269161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}