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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Cancel Public Universities Bill entirely – Govt told
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has been commended for acting swiftly to quell the seeming tension in the academic circles over the Public Universities Bill (PUB).
A United States-based Ghanaian Professor Kweku Asare said the intervention was timely. He however, said the suspension is not enough but what is needed is total cancellation.
“I commend Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for his timely intervention to stop this needless desire for presidential control of the universities.
“His intervention is not too surprising since he himself is an academic and was a professor in the US (Go Bears) for many years. If government wants to fix higher education, it should look no further than the School of Law and its out of control, unaccountable regulator.
Prof Atuguba objects Napo’s ‘misinformation and disinformation’ on Public Universities Bill
Associate Professor and Dean of School of Law at the University of Ghana, Professor Raymond Atuguba, has described as ‘misinformation and disinformation’ assertions by the Minister of Education, Dr Mattew Opoku Prempeh in a recent media interview on the controversial Public Universities Bill (PUB).
The law professor has been very critical of the infamous bill which has now been suspended after it had been read for the second time on the floor of parliament.
In his critique, he described the bill as being ‘glaringly and patently unconstitutional’ and called on colleague members of University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) to find ways of stopping it before it is passed.
Farmers call for intervention to improve yield - GTLC
Farmers in five regions in Northern Ghana have appealed to government and other stakeholders to design more effective interventions to enable them to improve on crop yields.
The farmers further called for a ban on tomato importation and revisit initial plans to revamp tomato factories in the country, subsidise the cost of farm inputs and extend the Planting for Food and Jobs programme to cover all year round.
The farmers needs were contained in the Agro Policy Performance Barometer Report (APPBR 2019) of the Ghana Trade and Livelihood Coalition (GTLC), and was presented at a policy dialogue on gender responsiveness to the Planting for Food and Job programme in Tamale.