Wesley College students embark on strike

Students of Wesley College in Kumasi have embarked on a sit-down strike in protest against increase in examination registration fees.

Speaking in an interview in Kumasi on Tuesday, Mr. Kingsford Osei-Boateng, a member of the Student Representative Council (SRC), said the students paid 140,000 cedis registration fee last year but this year it had been raised to 220,000 cedis.

''The increase is unbearable and we cannot accepted it,'' Osei-Boateng said, adding that students in teacher training colleges have a major role to play in the socio-economic development of the nation and appealed to the government, the Ministry of Education and stakeholders to ensure the reduction of high fees charged at the training colleges.