The hullabaloo surrounding the newly drafted Public University Bill has been described by the Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper as premature.
Kweku Baako said there is the need for one to take time in reading the drafted document before drawing any conclusion.
"It is too early; the truth is that there is too much premature ejaculation . . . there is no cause for alarm," he indicated.
The Minority in Parliament has urged lecturers of the various public universities to rise up against the Public Universities Bill aimed at diffusing their autonomy.
According to the Minority, the Public Universities Bill is an attempt to kill academic freedom at the various public universities.
Some of the proposals in the Bill grant; a) the President power to dissolve the university Council; b) Allow the university Council to appoint a Chancellor and c) Allow unions to appoint only one representative on a rotational system to serve on the Council at each cycle.
The minority has described the proposals as worrisome.
According to them, the bill, which is yet to be laid in Parliament has severe consequences as far as academic freedom and the autonomy of universities are concerned.
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Your insincerity is at apogee. You are so blind you cannot see this bill is inimical to our public University system. You defend good and bad.
you would know wouldn't you? lol
Kweku Baako and his ilks are the bane of the democracy of Ghana. Their stomachs are more important to them than the welfare of the state and that of the future generation. If we have old men who hate the nation to such an extent that their allegiance to NPP is more important to them than Ghana, then we have a problem.
How many people have read the draftbill to comment effectively? If what the opposition and the lecturers are saying is true, let them copy the bill for all of us to see and read it.I agree with Kwaku Baako. It is much-ado about nothing, premature ejaculation for that matter. The minority should go to parliament to debate the issues and our lecturers should also send their comments to the appropriate quarters for consideration. It is too bad for so-called academics to use social media and radio to argue their case out. They are supposed to be learned, pragmatic and discerning. I don't think lecturers want to follow politicians blindly.
Kweku, leave the NDC alone to devaste the healing of their wounds. That is their understanding of doing politics. Then, issue-based argumentation is in its blantant nature of expressing opposing and alternative better Policy-approaches of solving national Problems, devoid of personal attacks and defamation, this, in terms of good multi-Party democratic practices is sadly alien to the NDC. And I stress, it's notoriously becoming the trade mark of the NDC.
THE BEST THINGS TO HAVE HAPPENED TP PUBLIC UNIS AFTER INDEPENDENCE. PUBLIC UNIS WILL NO MORE BE BUYING THE LATEST EXPENSIVE 4-WHHELED V 12, 18 VEHICLES AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR POOR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT EVEN HAVE ACCESS TO PENTIUM 1 DESKTOPS/LAPTOPS. DO YOU REMEMBER THE SHOCK AND CRY OF THE CANADIAN ADJUNCT PROFESSOR IN UCC AGAINST THE NUMBER OF CARS IN UCC AGAINST THE NUMBER OF COMPUTERS FOR STUDENT STUDIES? UEW HAVE MORE CARS THAN COMPUTERS. WHY? DO YOU REMEMBER THE CHASING OF THE WA POLYTECHNIC RECTOR OVER A MERCEDES BENZ CAR? PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA DO HAVE MORE REGISTRARS, ADMINISTRATORS, SECRETARIES AND NON-TEACHING STAFF PARADING ON THEIR VARIOUS CAMPUSES THAN ARE LECTURERS, ACADEMICS AND PROFESSORS.REGISTRARS, ADMINISTRATORS, SECRETARIES AND NON-TEACHING STAFF NUMBERED 27,098, WHILE LECTURERS, ACADEMICS AND PROFESSORS NUMBERED 6,017 NCTE(2018). ARE THESE SO CALLED PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES UNIS? SANITY MUST PREVAIL, AND IT IS NOW!
a bill is a draft. the minority and others who have concern should debate it and stop this premature ejaculation. no better term than Mr Baako putted it
Mr know all
It is increasingly becoming difficult to understand kwaku Baako lately. Where is the pre-matured ejaculation. Most of the provisions in the draft bill, is that the standard processes/procedures in most public funded universities in the US and UK. Why is it that when we are aiming at reducing the absolute power of the presidency to appoint every senior public officer by further decentralisation and election of MMDCs, this bill seeks to give more powers to the government in public universities whose formation is by specific individual bills passed by parliament? We know that more often than not, these individuals are beholden to the president and cannot take public interest decisions. So the minority should wait until the bill is shrewdly laid before parliament so that NPP with its massive majority to rubber stamp it