ITS TIME FOR THE BIG UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA TO CHARGE FEES:

 ITS TIME FOR THE BIG UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA TO CHARGE FEES:

And for government to support students by paying bursary.

Tying the fortunes of the universities to the government’s economic management incompetence is a double jeopardy for the nation.

As a strategy for national development some state institutions should be empowered to pursue autonomous systems to advance national objectives. And not run the entire nation under one political administration.

Autonomous Universities will have the power to pursue projects that will make them globally competitive and develop ways of generating higher returns on investment to fund their ambitious projects for the good of the nation.

As it is now, Universities are tied down to the limited resources that the political administrations can provide. The revenue generation systems are already bankrupt, government use of public funds is bedeviled with corruption and mismanagement. At this pace, public universities are never going to develop properly.

By providing bursaries, the performance or failure of government will only affect the number of students on bursary, while the University can continue to operate at a higher level by recruiting those ready to pay the right fees to maintain a globally competitive system.

We cannot continue to operate the way we have been doing since 1948 where we are perpetually starved of the needed resources in addition to faculty being poorly paid. We can no longer argue that people are poor so the current model should be maintained even if it continues to waste the potential of many people. Why should some people's ability and desire to pay appropriate fees at the university be the only reason for operating a system that soffocate the life of many people.

Its not elitist but pragmatic drive for the much needed progress.

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