GTEC directs universities to cease SHS satellite campus operations

The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has ordered universities to cease operating satellite campuses in senior high schools (SHSs) and on unapproved premises. The Director-General of GTEC, Professor Ahmed Abdulai Jinapor, said the proliferation of satellite campuses of most universities with charters was negatively affecting the growth and development of technical universities. “It is of […]

TEWU Ghana suspends two-week strike

The Tertiary Education Workers Union of Ghana (TEWU-GH) has suspended its two-week strike after engagements with the National Labour Commission, GTEC, and the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission.  The Union suspended work on February 1 over non-payment of their vehicle maintenance allowances and other conditions of service. It was a back-and-forth between the Union and […]

Halt Medical Physics programme at CK Tedam University – Society for Medical Physics charges GTEC, others

The Ghana Society for Medical Physics (GSMP) has raised concerns and objected to the introduction of a Bachelor of Science (BSc) programme in Medical Physics at the CK Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences (CKT-UTAS). It said Medical Physics, by convention, was run as a postgraduate academic programme globally due to the complex physics […]