Conference on Funding Public Universities in Africa is underway at UG

A Conference on Funding of Public Universities in Africa is underway at the University of Ghana. 

While the Vice Chancellors are asking government to commit to paying the 70 percent funding as agreed in an Accord at Akosombo, government is in turn asking public universities to change from a receiving mindset to outputs of what they churn out.

The Chairman of Vice Chancellors Ghana, Professor Gabriel Teye said the funding of universities became an issue from the mid-1980s and measures to address this have not been successful not even the Akosombo Accord which asks government to fund public Universities by 70 percent.
 
He said in the next three years when the first batch of SHS students will be entering, tertiary institutions the government is calling for retaining about 34 percent of   Internally Generated Funds, IGF, from the Universities.
 
This, Professor Teye, who is also the Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies, Tamale describe as a blow to quality tertiary education.  

A Minister of State, in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwasi Yankah asked the Vice Chancellors to take a critical look at the output of public universities and come out with alternative ways of funding instead of depending on government for a major funding.


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