FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, February 9, 2012
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY HAS NOT ACTED
IN A TRANSPARENT MANNER
[Issued by the National
Union of Ghana Students - NUGS]
Concerning the dismissal of close
to seven hundred (700) first year students of the Central University College
(CUC), the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) wishes to inform the general
public that the University has not acted fairly and failed to disclose vital
information to the students as at the time of entering a conditional arrangement
to admit the affected students.
The
CUC knew as at the time of the admission that the entry requirements into all
tertiary institutions were as follows:
For
SSCE Candidates: Passes (A – D)in six subjects comprising three (3) core subjects,
including English and
Mathematics, and three (3) elective subjects.
For
WASSCE Candidates: Passes (A1 – C6)in six subjects comprising three (3) core
subjects, including English and
Mathematics, and three (3) elective subjects.
The above directive from the
National Accreditation Board (NAB) was communicated to all tertiary
institutions on 10th January, 2011. (Find the circular from the NAB attached for
your perusal). The CUC
cannot deny knowledge of this directive and that it did not have to admit
students who had anything more than the stipulated grades above. The CUC
entered that arrangement with the students fully aware what the repercussions
were. The attempt to shift the post and make it seem like the students are at
fault and should therefore face the brunt of a directive which was not new to
the CUC, is largely unfair to the students.
If CUC had disclosed the
directive to the students earlier, they wouldn’t have entered into that
arrangement with the school, thereby averting to this bizarre episode.
The position of NUGS is a
two-pronged approach to solving the matter;
1. NUGS is engaging the NCTE to review its earlier decision on the admission
criteria to include D7 and E8. If this agreement is reached, NAB will communicate
to the institution to revoke its earlier decision.
2. The other way will be to seek the intervention of the court to compel CUC to go
according to the terms of the agreement they reached with the students.
We must do
this to ensure that students are not made to suffer even when they have entered
a contract and have fulfilled their part of the bargain. The law requires that
when a party to a contract fulfills his obligations in the contractual
agreement he/she must be entitled to his rights. That is the position of the
law!
Finally, NUGS wishes to call on
the Ministry of Education to intervene in the matter with the urgency it
deserves.
Signed.
Peter
Kwasi
Kodjie
Courage Kwasi Nobi
(President-NUGS)
(Gen.
Secretary-NUGS)
(0242879028)
(0206497320)
Email: president@nugsgh.org
freekodjie@yahoo.com
Tel:
+233 242879028
+233 209207555
Address:
P. O. Box TN 1293,
Accra, Ghana.
E-mail:
president@nugsgh.org
freekodjie@yahoo.com
freekodjie@gmail.com
Website:
http://www.nugsgh.org
http://www.peterkodjie4nugspresident.o
