500 students to one computer at KNUST

One thousand five hundred students in the Engineering department of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) are facing a hard time in their academic work as 500 students, have to share one computer making teaching and learning difficult.

The department comprising the Mechanical, Electrical, Civil, Geodetic, Agriculture and Chemical engineering faculties are equipped with a few old computers which the department tried to up-grade without success.

The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) whose manpower requirements come from the university has decided to assist with some computers to enhance academic work. The GPHA has had a long-standing relationship with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology, which trains most of the Authority's engineers and also continues to receive students on attachment programmes.

The university also wants to ensure that in the next few years, all graduates would be computer literate.