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Government is considering a moratorium on the siting of higher institutions especially private universities in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Western regions, a Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said. The decision is to decentralize the siting of universities in the country especially to �less-endowed regions,� the Deputy Minister added. Ablakwa made this known over the weekend during the 8th Congregation of the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra. Four hundred and eighty-three students graduated after completing diploma and degree courses in Communications Studies. Ablakwa said government is reviewing Act 494 that establishes higher institutions in the country. �We are proposing in the new amendment that there should be some moratorium on the siting of higher institutions especially private universities in Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi,� he said. �We want to give incentive to private actors who will want to site their institutions in other regions and regions [one] will consider the less-endowed regions.� The North Tongu MP also said the review will ensure that private universities go through the National Council for Tertiary Education first for accreditation rather than the National Accreditation Board.