Support Private University Education

Unlike years back when students, who completed their secondary education, had to go through hell to gain admission into the nation’s public universities, the situation today is entirely different.

Today, with the upbringing of various private tertiary institutions, parents do not have to worry again when their wards complete their secondary education.

Today institutions like, the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), the Central University College, the Pentecost University College, the Presbyterian University College, Valley View University, Wisconsin University College and the Catholic University amongst many others, are offering the same level of education for the benefit of the under-privileged ones who could not gain admission into the public universities such as the University of Ghana, Cape Coast University, the University College of Education or the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

These universities have not only been of tremendous assistance to secondary school graduates, but also to workers who would want to further their education. Interestingly, they have even come up with wonderful courses and programmes, which in effect, save the present day students from all those courses university students in the public universities had to go through.

These private universities are unnoticeably pushing the public universities to look again at their very cumbersome criteria for admission and to also reconsider their curricula. We on The Independent are worried that, even though these private universities become institutions of national importance, government has turned its back on them. Even though, they have struggled to put strategic facilities in place for the benefit of the students, government in spite of various calls to support them, has not yielded to this plea.