An education think tank, Africa Education Watch (EduWatch), has called on government to consider shutting down all public universities in the country until the University Teachers Association (UTAG) resolve their impasse with the Ghana Education Service (GES).
According to the education think tank, this decision would inure to the benefit of the students as the cost incurred by their continuous stay on campus with no academic activity would be reduced.
“The strike was declared on January 10, 2022. Majority of students on campus are freshmen who have not even been matriculated. These freshmen have had no academic direction since they arrived in the universities to meet a university community without academic activity or supervision by their lecturers and counselors due to the strike.”, Eduwatch said.
The statement added that “their continuous stay on campus without academic activity has economic and social consequences on them and their families back home, as they continue to incur expenditure they otherwise wouldn’t have incurred if they were home.”
Africa Education Watch therefore appealed to all Vice-Chancellors to close down all public universities until UTAG calls off its strike action.
