News:
June 15, 2017
The Honnorable Member of Parliament (MP) for the South Dayi constituency, Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwame Dafiamekpor has called on public universities and colleges in the country to put an immediate stop to the sale of admission forms to prospective students.
He described the sale of admission forms mostly at every exorbitant cost as an illegality which has continuously deterred brilliant but needy students from being able to access higher education and has therefore called upon Parliament to intervene as a matter of urgency.
He also argued that most of the public universities are State subvention hence the need for Parliament to ensure that admission forms sales are scrapped.
The South Dayi lawmaker who is also the deputy ranking member on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, expressed these concerns in a statement on the floor of Parliament observed that universities extort monies from potential students as a result of the sale of the forms since more forms are sold that the universities can admit.
The unfortunate situation of selling forms at very high cost of 250 Ghc on average he noted has denied most students the opportunity of attending university education.
Mr Dafeamekpor stated that the charges for admission forms by these universities is a breach of Article (25)1a and (38)1 of the 1992 constitution because the development denies potential students the right to enjoy education.
He also called for the full disclosure of qualification and disqualification details of universities ahead of sale of admission forms to better inform prospective students because the sale of admission forms seems to be a deliberate strategy to extort from the unsuspecting public.
By Christian Kpesese/ghanamps.com