Emeritus Professor Kwasi Adarkwa, former Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called for increased funding to help universities effectively accommodate the growing number of students from the Free Senior High School (SHS) programme.
Speaking on the challenges faced by tertiary institutions, Prof. Adarkwa stressed the importance of financial support to ensure the smooth implementation of the policy.
“We will support or we need to support the free SHS policy, but let’s also provide some funding for the institutions to get them to begin to react to what is happening,” he stated on The Point of View on Channel One TV on Monday.
He also underscored the urgent need for universities to recruit additional faculty members to manage the increasing student population.
“The first thing will be to hire a few more faculty members. I think in most of the colleges what they do is that they have broken—computer science, for example, a year ago or something, they had about 600 students, so what they do is that they have broken into two.
“…So today the lecturer will teach the first group, the first batch, tomorrow [he] teaches the next batch. If you don’t do this, you see the kids standing out of the windows taking notes, and if a pressman picks this, we are dead,” he explained.
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