Any tertiary institution that continues to run programmes at unaccredited centres will have its accreditation for those programmes revoked, the Director-General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC), Professor Abdulai Jinapor, has said.
The move has become necessary following the proliferation of unaccredited centres for some of the traditional universities dotted across the country.
Prof. Jinapor, who issued the warning in an exclusive interview with the Daily Graphic, explained that accredited programmes were institution specific and could, therefore, not be taught at different unaccredited centres.
Unaccredited centres
Currently, the GTEC has directed three public universities to desist from enrolling fresh students at 160 study centres being run as satellite centres.The affected public universities are the University of Cape Coast (UCC), University for Development Studies (UDS), and University of Education, Winneba (UEW).
The UCC has the highest number of 91 centres, followed by the UEW with 48 centres, while the UDS has 21 of such centres.
Majority of these centres used by the universities are either senior high schools (SHSs), colleges of education, church premises and social centres, with some of them on companies’ premises.