The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has instructed the University of Ghana (UG) to adhere strictly to the fees approved by the Ministry of Education for the 2025/2026 academic year, cautioning that non-compliance will attract sanctions. In a statement released on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the Commission stated that the approved fee structure, which had […]
The University of Ghana has pushed back against the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission’s (GTEC) published fees for the upcoming academic year, stating they contradict agreements reached at a high-level stakeholder meeting chaired by the Deputy Minister of Education. According to GTEC, publicly funded universities cannot review student fees without adhering to proper procedures, including seeking […]
The University of Ghana, Legon, has held a congregation for graduates of the School of Law, Medical School and the School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences. In all, 310 students were awarded certificates following the successful completion of their respective courses during the 2022/2023 academic year at the Great Hall of the university last […]
The Old Vandals Association in North America (OVA-NA), has condemned the University of Ghana authorities for applying a “kangaroo court” process to deal with the recent disturbances on campus between some students of Commonwealth and Mensah Sarbah halls. In a communiqué issued by the Old Vandals Association in North America (OVA-NA) at the end of their […]
Forty one lecturers of Ghana’s two oldest public universities and a new entrant dominate the list of top 50 lecturers in Ghana. In its latest monitoring work, the World Scientist and University Rankings 2021 ranked the lecturers for their research work and impact of their various universities. The University of Ghana has 25 lecturers in […]
Zara and Abigail, the two ladies who were captured in the Sex for Grades scandal that rocked the University of Ghana in the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary are not students or members of the University Community. The fact finding committee instituted to look into the matter in its final report indicated that evidence available […]
A BBC Africa Eye undercover investigation at the University of Ghana has exposed a lecturer from the College of Education, Dr Paul Kwame Butakor, pleading to a ‘female’ student to become her side guy. He said repeatedly, “Let me be your side boy, side guy…men have side chicks…I will not give you trouble…seriously I will […]
A student at the University of Ghana Medical School is reported to have taken his own life on Wednesday. Joseph Obeng Opuni’s lifeless body found in his hostel room in the early hours of September 4, campus-based UniversNews reports. A source at the University told JoyNews that the deceased might have taken some pills to […]
The Bureau of National Investigations, BNI, has commenced investigations into an alleged hoarding of rooms by some students and authorities at the University of Ghana, Legon. This, according to the Head of Halls at the university, Dr. Wiafe-Akenten Brenya, has been necessary following series of reports that some nine thousand newly admitted students have been […]
