Forty students use one toilet

...Fresh Students Will Be Non-Resident

The University of Ghana, Legon would not admit fresh students into residence this academic year, Dr Valdemir Antwi Danso, Dean of Students, told the Ghana News Agency on Wednesday.

He said admission of students into residence had become a near impossibility as 15,800 students are now vying for residential accommodation meant for 3,000 students.

"Forty students use one toilet. The facilities that we used about 30 years ago are still virtually the same showing the lack of planning within the educational system, which is in a mess."

The GNA sought the interview following an advert in a national daily that said fresh and final year students would be given preference in the allocation of residence in the 2003/2004 academic year.

When GNA visited Akuafo Hall fresh students were being made to sign an undertaking: "I do hereby agree to remain an attached but non-resident student of Akuafo Hall for at least two academic years of my stay at the University of Ghana. I promise that under no circumstance will I worry the Senior Tutor for accommodation during my first two years stay in the University."

Students need to be attached to a hall of residence before being admitted into the various faculties.