The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has authorized more than a thousand programs for study at public institutions around the nation.
According to GTEC, the programs would aid in streamlining tertiary institutions’ academic schedules.
Dr. Ahmed Abdulai Jinapor, the Director-General of GTEC, clarified that a new organization would be set up to oversee these public university courses.
“We want institutions to stay in their niche, institutions should stay in their mandate areas. Institutions cannot be doing anything and everything. The system whereby you have technology institutions that are mandated to do technology-oriented programmes, but today doing Akan, Twi, Dagbani, I think should be something of the past. “Hence, this body will ensure that you fall within your niche, the programmes must have relevance to the developmental aspirations of this country. And such programmes should not feed into saturated markets of this economy,” the GTEC Director-General declared.
