UDS Vice Chancellor kicks against conversion of polytechnics into universities


Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies (UDS) Prof. Gabriel Ayum Teye has made a case against the planned conversion of polytechnics into universities.

According to him, the move will only increase the graduate unemployment population which currently stands at 300,000.

This is according to data from the Institute of Statistical and Economic Research (ISSER).

“Now we have 10 public universities that produce graduates and by next month we will have 16 public universities in Ghana.

“So if you’re having problems with 10 and you add another 6 to it making 16 are you solving the problem or compounding it,” he queried.

Prof Ayum Teye was speaking at the 22nd National Delegates’ Congress of the Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) in Tamale.

He said government is therefore better off supporting the growth of industry to be able to absorb the large number of unemployed graduates.

“Government must support industry to grow in order to absorb the huge numbers that are churned out from the universities.

“If the jobs are not there there’s no way the person can be employed,” he said.

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  1. Very brilliant observation. This is a fact about Ghana

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