More private universities stand the risk of losing out of the ‘market’ should they fail to meet the basic requirements specified by the National Accreditation Board (NAB).
The NAB has communicated to all private universities to streamline their admission procedures as well as the quality of their staff to meet the standard of a higher institution of learning.
Some of the institutions, according to sources, admit students who do not meet the minimum requirement to enroll in a university.
However, these students are absorbed into the university apparently because they have the ability to pay.
Though the NAB has punished some institutions in the past, the situation still persists. There is the belief that entry into a university in Ghana is more flexible hence compelling nationals from neighbouring Nigeria, Congo, Ivory Coast and Equatorial Guinea to enroll in our universities.
Allegations are rife that some of these students do not meet the basic requirement but have the money to pay and somehow manage to enroll.
The quality of staffs of some of these universities is also on the radii of the NAB and investigations reveal that the board is working assiduously to arrest the situation completely in no time.
The NAB per its regulations expects that all academic staff must have their post graduate degrees with greater emphasis on Master of Philosophy and PhD degrees. This, many of the schools, understandably, have flouted because they are unwilling to absolve the wage bill of graduate lecturers in that category.
The NAB, however, has intensified its monitoring and evaluation function and is resolved to close down any institution that does not comply with the accreditation rules and regulations of the country.
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