The Presbyterian University College is to establish a Medical School at its Agogo campus in the Asante-Akim North District, Professor Kofi Sraku Lartey, its President, has announced.
The Presbyterian University College is to establish a Medical School at its Agogo campus in the Asante-Akim North District, Professor Kofi Sraku Lartey, its President, has announced.
Private Universities in Kenya receive no funding from the government for running expenses. They rely on tuition fees to meet recurrent and developmental costs.
The minister of Higher Education, Adao do Nascimetno today in Kuito, Bie, hailed the initiative and efforts of institutions that want to boost higher education in the province, as they will contribute to local development.
The minister of Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento, exhorted on Saturday in the central Huambo province the private higher education institutions of this region to increase their performance, aiming to promote the quality of scientific and technology training.
The President of the Central University College and the newly elected Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Private Universities in Ghana, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has emphasised the significance of private universities in national development.
A private Indian university has been barred from recruiting Ghanaian students for its distance learning programmes since it is not accredited in this country. The university is under a cloud back home with a federal probe likely into its affairs - particularly the awarding of an extraordinarily high number of degrees - and its chancellor-promoter is on the run.
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has set up a Liaison Committee to monitor and coordinate activities of its affiliate private universities to help maintain high academic standards, the Vice Chancellor, Professor William Otoo Ellis, has announced.
The minister of Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento, last Wednesday in Lubango City, southern Huila Province, said that in some local private higher education institutions there are serious concerns about their functioning and organisation, which need to be dealt with in due time.
The minister of Higher Education, Adão do Nascimento, on Wednesday in Lubango City, Huila Province, said that infrastructures related to private higher education institutions must be adjusted to the functioning of the public ones, aimed for a quality academic training.
The Tanzania Commission for Universities, or TCU, has finally acted against a branch campus of Uganda’s Kampala International University, ordering the Dar es Salaam-based institution to stop offering masters and doctoral courses.