He said at the forum that the major challenge will be funding the programme Therefore, he propose a budget of GH¢9,000 per student annually for the programme. “That is only 50 per cent of what the German system spends on the technical university students. GH¢9,000 is not much to ask for.”
“That is why we must go slowly. That is why we must have a phased programme where the few polytechnics that become technical universities can benefit from adequate funding and then their products can then show that this is what you get from a good technical university.”
Dr Afeti also presented 10 key recommendations of the committee, among which was the proposal that the universities should not “mimic the traditional or conventional universities in their course offerings”.
Rather, the committee recommended that the new universities “carve a niche for themselves as vocational-oriented, career- focused higher educational institutions contributing to the training of a highly skilled workforce to support economic growth and national development”.
The Chairman of the Conference of Rectors of Polytechnics, Professor Nicholas Nsowah-Nuamah stated that “We have what it takes to get to that technical university level, and as I speak now some of us are already at that level.”
The forum brought together stakeholders to brainstorm on the Technical Universities Bill and the report of the technical committee on the conversion of the polytechnics to technical universities.
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