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BY: Shirley Asiedu-Addo
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The Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA) has called for the discontinuation of the consideration and the passage of the Public University Bill currently before Parliament. We strongly state that the consideration and the passage of the bill must be discontinued,” it said.
A statement signed and issued by the President and the General Secretary of GAUA, Messrs Kwabena Antwi Konadu and Felix Adu-Poku, respectively, said the association was disturbed about the recent rhetorics and public discourse on the bill by the Education Minister, Dr Mathew Opoku Prempeh, some members of Parliament and a section of the media.
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The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) says it is impossible for the Public Universities Bill (PUB) to be considered by the seventh Parliament.
The Bill was suspended at the consideration stage to allow for input from members of academia who criticized the document claiming it infringes on academic freedom.
However, the association says it is unable to complete its consultations before the dissolution of the current Parliament.
In an interview with
Citi News, the National President of UTAG, Prof. Charles Marfo hinted that his members will not hesitate to lay down their tools if the consideration of the Bill continues.
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Public University Bill: UTAG-UG Circulating fake document?
By Danny Columbus
DEC 17, 2020
The University of Ghana branch of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UG-UTAG) has been caught in deceitful agenda bordering on the suspended Public University Bill, 2020.
The UG-UTAG, which has been at the forefront in moves to thwart the Bill, which has been crafted to inure to the benefit of all public universities, has been caught circulating a fake document, claiming it is the revised edition of the Bill.
Interestingly, the document that the UG-UTAG is floating is starkly different from the one that has been worked on by the Attorney-General after all the necessary inputs had been done by stakeholders.
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