PROF. ADDEI INSTIGATES PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES AGAINST GOV'T.

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Prof. Addei addressing the gathering
A former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, GIMPA Professor Stephen Addei has urged private universities and their students to rise up against what he considers to be discrimination against them by government in the management of tertiary education in the country. 


According to him, it is indiscernible for government to grant newly established public universities such as the University of Allied Health Sciences as well as the University for Energy and Renewable Natural Resources autonomy while 


certain private tertiary universities which have proven their worth have persistently been denied Presidential Charter. 

Professor Addei therefore entreated staff and students of private universities to vote out the government if it continues to disregard them and their real contribution to the national development agenda. 


The former GIMPA boss was addressing the graduation ceremony of the Christian Service University College, in Kumasi. 


The ceremony served also as the climax of the 40th anniversary of the school on the theme: “40 Years and Growing; Renewing Our Identity”.

'As far as i know, those so called universities are just Departments and not universities so i don't understand why they should be granted university status while Central University College and other private University colleges have been refuse Presidential Charter', the former GIMPA boss fumed.


 Professor Adei said Ghana now requires leaders of character, competence and care for the people to speed up transformation of the country. 


He expressed serious concern about sexual perversion, corruption and illusion that are negatively affecting the social values of the state.


 He therefore charged the Christian Service University College to remain focused on their vision, mission and motto, which is “To Know Christ Better and Make Him Better Known and to Make Him better Known”, without compromising on the production of well prepared graduates for the society. 


A representative of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Reverend Professor Cephas Domenyo, assured the CSUC that its application for a Presidential Charter is being given serious consideration, adding that the University of Ghana will be very much satisfied to wean off one of its affiliated schools. 



A total of 514 students passed out with Certificates in Communication Studies, Business Administration, Nursing, Computer Science and Theology.

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