NAB TO AUDIT CREDENTIALS OF LECTURERS

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The National Accreditation Board, NAB, says it will start an audit of the academic certificates of all lecturers in all the tertiary educational institutions from next year with an objective of eliminating the lecturers with fake credentials from the system. 

The executive secretary of the NAB, Dr. Kingsely Nyarko, disclosed this to the journalist Ashanti region. This was after leading a team of officials of the NAB to engage the management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and technology, KNUST, in an evaluation of the new academic undergraduate engineering programs proposed for introduction by the university. 

The planned academic certificate audit by the national accreditation Board would come on the heels of a nation-wide credential verification of all public service employees by the Auditor General to flush out of unqualified persons on the government, s payroll. 

The NAB executive Secretary noted with concern the quality of the knowledge lecturers with fake certificate would impart to students. ‘We think that presently, it is easier for anybody to sit behind the computer to generate a Certificate’, the NAB Executive Secretary said.

 Dr Nyarko disclosed also that the NAB plans to set a benchmark for all programmes of study at the tertiary institutions in the country towards standardization of the contents to ensure that students acquire the same level of knowledge in any given programme regardless of the institution of the study. 

Dr. Nyarko called also on the tertiary institution to develop what he calls ‘dynamic’ or a living documents’ that must not only respond to the needs of today’s industry ,but also the changing times to make their products suitable for the job market.

 The Vice Chancellor of the KNUST, Professor Kwasi Obiri Danso, appealed to the NAB to Intervene to ensure that the University get a clearance to recruit additional academic staff to meet the growing students population which he disclosed, shot up from the last year’s admission of seven thousand to 16 thousand, 800 this academic year. 

Prof Obiri Danso mentioned the new undergraduate Engineering programmes to be introduced soon as automobile Management, Marine, Railway, Medical Imaging among others.



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