General News of Saturday, 29 September 2018Source: Starrfmonline.comMass withdrawal of lecturers hit Bolga Poly over conversion delayMinister of Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh said the delay is due to upgrade of some polytechnicsA mass withdrawal of lecturers is reported to have hit the Bolgatanga Polytechnic owing to an unexplained delay on the part of government to convert the institution into a technical university. “Besides, the delay in the conversion has triggered an exodus of lecturers migrating to other public universities and if the polytechnic is not converted within the shortest time, it will exacerbate the situation,” the association stated. “Hitherto, because they were all polytechnics, the institution was able to compete for its fair share of students. But now that eight out of ten polytechnics have been elevated to technical universities, it has become very difficult to get students to enroll,” a visibly peeved TUTAG noted in the statement. Apart from that, the provision of additional facilities in the polytechnic and the conversion are not mutually exclusive (not different from each other)”.

Source: GhanaWeb September 29, 2018 13:41 UTC