UG: Student leaders approved ‘double-track’ model for 20/21 academic year – Management
It has come to light that student leaders of the University of Ghana gave their approval to a proposal by the management of the University to adopt a ‘double-track’ system for the 2020/2021 academic year.
Mrs Lydia Nyarko-Danquah, who is the head of the teaching and examinations unit of the Academic Affairs Directorate of the University stated that leaders of the Students Representative Council and the Graduate Students Association were in a meeting where the academic calendar was discussed.
Contrary to claims by some students that management of the university took an individual decision, Mrs Nyarko-Danquah told UniversNews that there was proper consultation with student leaders on the model it wants to run for the 2020/2021 academic year.
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The leadership of the Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) has denied reports that its President, Samuel Sagoe has been suspended together with the Association’s Financial Controller, Yusif Sulemana.
According to GRASAG, the said publication is false, urging the public to treat it with contempt.
In a statement signed by General Secretary of the Association, Kwasi Frimpong, he said, “The attention of the leadership of GRASAG National has been brought to a malicious publication circulating on social media and a section of the traditional media purporting that Mr. Samuel Sagoe and Yussif Suleman have been suspended as President and Financial Controller of GRASAG respectively.
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Cancel Public Universities Bill entirely – Govt told
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has been commended for acting swiftly to quell the seeming tension in the academic circles over the Public Universities Bill (PUB).
A United States-based Ghanaian Professor Kweku Asare said the intervention was timely. He however, said the suspension is not enough but what is needed is total cancellation.
“I commend Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for his timely intervention to stop this needless desire for presidential control of the universities.
“His intervention is not too surprising since he himself is an academic and was a professor in the US (Go Bears) for many years. If government wants to fix higher education, it should look no further than the School of Law and its out of control, unaccountable regulator.
Farmers call for intervention to improve yield - GTLC
Farmers in five regions in Northern Ghana have appealed to government and other stakeholders to design more effective interventions to enable them to improve on crop yields.
The farmers further called for a ban on tomato importation and revisit initial plans to revamp tomato factories in the country, subsidise the cost of farm inputs and extend the Planting for Food and Jobs programme to cover all year round.
The farmers needs were contained in the Agro Policy Performance Barometer Report (APPBR 2019) of the Ghana Trade and Livelihood Coalition (GTLC), and was presented at a policy dialogue on gender responsiveness to the Planting for Food and Job programme in Tamale.