We’re not to blame for GTEC’s failure to do its work – KNUST responds to Auditor General’s report
A report by the Auditor General indicated that only 61 courses out of the 360 being offered by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are not accredited have sharply been rejected by the university.
Dr Norriss Bekoe said KNUST as an institution strives to meet the required standards of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission.
He stated that the university is not to be held accountable if the body responsible for accrediting such courses has not done its work.
“We have submitted over 468 applications for existing programs, so when the documents are with GTEC, and they haven’t been worked on, there is a little delay. That is not to say, the university is running unaccredited programs. KNUST existed long ago before the setting up of the National Accreditation Board and GTEC so most of these programs we are talking about have been running for over 70 years. So how can one say that these programs that have trained some of the finest brains in this country are unaccredited?”
KNUST’s response came up after the Auditor General sounded the alarm that some of the courses run by the school needed accreditation.
The University of Ghana is faced with a similar situation with the auditor general report indicating that some 374 programs were not accredited.
The universities were then admonished by the Auditor General to see to it that their programs are properly accredited lest they be sanctioned by the National Accreditations Board.
