IPS Dismisses 50 Students

The Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) has expelled 50 students this year for poor performance. Their expulsion is in line with the policy instituted last year by the academic board of the IPS of monitoring students? performance and making their continued enrolment in the IPS conditional on their progress.

The Director of the IPS, Reverend Father J.J. Martey, disclosed this in Accra on Friday at a matriculation ceremony for 525 freshmen of the institute. He said that last year, the board expelled 45 students for failing to make the grade. The Director said that it had been possible in the past for students to attend classes for as long as three years without passing even their first-level examinations. Rev. Fr. Martey added that the IPS administration was undertaking a screening exercise to expose those students who gained admission with fake certificates.

He declared that as a professional institution, the IPS would do all it could to ensure that it offered effective training to only students who would ?take care of the nation?s resources? after they qualified. He said that the IPS administration could only meet the needs of students and the national if student leaders chose to see themselves as a part of the administrative machinery of the IPS. Rev. Fr. Martey said the problem of inadequate lecture theatre space would be overcome after the completion of a new academic block that is being built with money from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).

He disclosed that the administration was working hard to get the IPS hooked up to the Internet. This would enable the students to reap the maximum benefit from being citizens of the ?global village?.

The Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Mr Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu, who was the guest of honour at the matriculation, urged students of tertiary institutions to desist from the kind of behaviour that left in its wake a trail of destruction of vital property. He said the nation?s funds and resources were already over-stretched and that there was very little money to spare for the repair of vandalised equipment. T

he Minister noted that the IPS had not been associated with acts of vandalism in the past and he expressed regret that the current generation of students was gaining a reputation for this. The Executive Director of FC Skin and Beauty Klinik, Mrs Grace Amey-Obeng, who chaired the function, advised matriculants to see the new policy as a challenge to them to raise their standards