GTEC makes special arrangements to accredit KNUST, UG courses
An assurance has been made by the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) to liaise with the tertiary institutions to accredit their courses.
Director General of the Commission, Mohammed Salifu gave this assurance during an interview on Citi FM. “We have arranged with the universities for a special arrangement to get them off our books,” he said.
This arrangement is due to some backlash from certain quarters over the recent publication by the Auditor General pointing out that some programs numbering about 600 being offered in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and the University of Ghana are yet to be accredited since 2021.
KNUST on the other hand disagreed with the finding pointing accusing fingers at GTEC for not being able to carry out its mandate to accredit courses.
Prof Salifu also in response insisted that the said institutions were rather to be faulted, revealing that it is recently they submitted the programs for accreditation.
He absolved the commission of every blame saying “Those applications that recently came here are applications that within a month or two have flooded our system because we discovered they were programmes whose accreditation had expired”.
