The government is collaborating with the authorities of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to open a second School of Law in Kumasi.
This is to ease the pressure on the Ghana School of Law at Makola in Accra which continues to be the only one for training law graduates in the Barrister at Law programme. Vice-President John Dramani Mahama made this known at the first congregation of the Pentecost University College (PUC) in Accra last Saturday.
The PUC is affiliated to the University of Ghana, Legon, and the first batch of students was enrolled in February 2005. A total of 271 students graduated and obtained degrees in Accounting, Human Resource Management, Marketing, Banking and Finance, Information Technology and Theology.
Mr Mahama said the government also intended to open a Bachelor of Law programme at the University for Development Studies (UDS) to serve students desirous of pursuing the course in the northern sector of the country. �These measures are intended to train more lawyers to contribute to the administration of justice in the country,� he said.
Mr Mahama said the government �is also on course� in the extension of assistance and bursaries to science and engineering students, especially girls. He said the policy, which was contained in the manifesto of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), �would roll out shortly.�
He again charged private universities to introduce programmes in science and technology, since those fields of study �provided the basis for accelerated industrial development in development economies and Ghana cannot be left out�.
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