General News of Monday, 15 October 2018Source: 3news.comUTAG president berates government for laying off retired university professorsDr. Harry Agbanu, national president of UTAGThe national president of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Dr. Harry Agbanu has expressed disappointment in government, accusing it of making senior lecturers above retiring age redundant. Speaking with Winston Amoah, host of Sunrise on 3FM, Dr. Agbanu pointed out that professors are assets to university education, condemning government’s directive laying off retiring lecturers. “The same government has written, demanding that 34 percent of all internally generated fund should be deposited in the consolidated account,” he noted. He lamented that, in most part of the world, it is unusual for universities to be barred from engaging the services of retired senior members. He noted that the way universities are being treated like public institutions is not the best.

Source: GhanaWeb October 15, 2018 18:33 UTC