{"id":774832,"date":"2022-02-01T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T10:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/01\/i-made-more-money-as-a-student-in-the-united-states-than-i-did-as-a-lecturer-in-ghana-dr-sule\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T10:12:20","slug":"i-made-more-money-as-a-student-in-the-united-states-than-i-did-as-a-lecturer-in-ghana-dr-sule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/01\/i-made-more-money-as-a-student-in-the-united-states-than-i-did-as-a-lecturer-in-ghana-dr-sule\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Made More Money As A Student In The United States Than I Did As A Lecturer in Ghana&#8221; &#8211; Dr. Sule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/25c17bfbd70240f990f6c4f483af370f\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sulemana was born in Tuna, a small hamlet in the Savanna region.<\/p>\n<p>He joined the university of Ghana before moving to the University of Missouri in 2008 to pursue his studies and eventually a PhD in Economics. He returned to Ghana in 2014 to teach at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At GIMPA, there was no air conditioning in my office.&#8221; &#8220;I complained to everyone I could, and they thought having air conditioning in a lecturer&#8217;s office was a luxury,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>That pretty much sums up his dissatisfaction. He left GIMPA two years later for a position at the University of Ghana, where he stated things improved but not enough.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ca7e845ec0924bfb9ca4cecc6595ad67\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the time I arrived in Legon, my monthly pay was less than $5,000.&#8221; &#8220;This implies I made a lot more money as a graduate student in the United States than I did as a full-time instructor in Ghana,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He left the University of Ghana after only two years and returned to the United States to work as a banker.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/9cc8709bab734d5db4c76ee58a512552\"\/><\/p>\n<p>University professors, like Dr. Sulemaana, continue to leave in droves. Many others, like Dr. Annor, are simply biding their time till their turn comes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we could just make workers&#8217; lives a little simpler.&#8221; Just a smidgeon. That way, we could tackle a lot of problems in our country,&#8221; adds Dr. Sulemaana.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: MrBenevolent (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nGIMPA<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nSavanna<br \/>\nSule<br \/>\nSulemana<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sulemana was born in Tuna, a small hamlet in the Savanna region. He joined the university of Ghana before moving to the University of Missouri in 2008 to pursue his studies and eventually a PhD in Economics. He returned to Ghana in 2014 to teach at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774832","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=774832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}