Ghanas public universities
are facing a boom in applications, but do not have sufficient
facilities to meet growing demand that has been exacerbated by an influx
of students from neighbouring countries and a double cohort leaving
school this year.
As a result, admission to universities
is no longer based on obtaining the required grades some qualified
candidates have been turned down or made to sit additional selection tests.
The situation has been compounded by
students from neighbouring countries especially Nigeria competing with
Ghanaians for admission. Nigerians have been seeking out Ghanaian
institutions because of the frequent strikes that have bedevilled their
public university campuses.
Over the past four months, Nigerian universities have been on strike and students have been forced to stay at home so it is better for some of us to look elsewhere to educate our children, a Nigerian parent, Folu Agbeniran, told University World News in Accra.
Agbeniran said he had spent a month in Ghana looking at institutions that could admit his child as a first-year political science student………
