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Asantehene Calls For Dialogue On Funding Higher Education
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has advocated a national dialogue that will address the nagging issue of sustainable funding for higher education.
The public universities, he noted, were at the cross-roads, adding, “The time is opportune for us as a nation to begin the process of dialogue, of assembling together in a non-partisan, open-minded and all-hands-on-deck mood to critically address the issue of mechanisms for sustainable funding for higher education.”
Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who was speaking at the 45th congregation of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi Monday, said Ghana could not always look elsewhere for answers to challenges facing tertiary education.
“So what is our choice as a nation?” he asked, and went on to provide the answer, “The choice is ours.”
In all, 775 students from the colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources and Architecture and Planning graduated in the first of the expanded graduation ceremonies, with 50 of them obtaining First Class honours.
The Asantehene, who is also the Chancellor of KNUST, stated that higher education was the engine of growth for nations that sought to advance in the world of science and technology.
“Be that as it may, access and means to higher education is a matter that should engage the attention of stakeholders in education,” he noted.
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