General News of Wednesday, 2 June 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.com• GTEC has cautioned tertiary schools against running unaccredited courses• The penalties include either paying a fine of not more than GH¢240,000• Rector of the institution could be jailed for up to 20 yearsThe Commission of the Ghana Tertiary Education (GTEC) has warned vice-chancellors of universities against running unaccredited programmes. The Commissioner of GTEC Professor Mohammed Salifu made this known in an interview with the Daily Graphic. According to him, the Education Regulatory Body Act, 2020 (Act 1023) makes it is an offence for a tertiary institution to advertise or run a programme for which it has no accreditation. He explained that the new act has scrapped the affiliation policy and requires all existing private university colleges currently under affiliation to expedite action towards chartering. "They must bring all the programmes they run for us to see if we can give them amnesty so that they go and sin no more".

Source: GhanaWeb June 02, 2021 14:26 UTC