Prof. Ayamga-Adongo
A Deputy Chief Executive Officer at the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) of Ghana, Prof. Michael Ayamga-Adongo, has condemned the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) for granting accreditations to what he called “very poor universities.”
Speaking in an interview with Accra-based Channel One TV monitored by Africa Publicity, Prof. Ayamga-Adongo says GTEC was accrediting poorly equipped universities across Ghana.
He described some of the universities he has seen as “sickening”.
He said “They [GTEC] are the very ones that are giving accreditation to very poor universities, and when you enter some universities, it is sickening to think of what they come to do in our universities in the name of accreditation. These get through, and that is where they should be policing.”
Meanwhile, he accused GTEC of overreaching its cm mandate and behaving like “headmasters of tertiary education” instead of focusing on its core responsibility of regulating quality in Ghana’s universities.
According to him, GTEC has shifted its focus from quality assurance to policing individuals, especially politicians, while at the same time granting accreditations to institutions that fall short of acceptable academic standards.