The KNUST Management Need No Reminder About the Current Economic Difficulties and Its Impact On Household Income
Over 6000 students of the “Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology” (KNUST) have been deferred due to their inability to meet the minimum requirements of the KNUST fees Credit and Debt Management Policy.
To this effect, The Executive Director, Kofi Asare of the Africa Education Watch (Eduwatch), an Education Policy Research and Advocacy Organisation took this to his Official Facebook Page yesterday that the KNUST Management need to understand the difficulties some students are facing in paying their fees.
He stated; “KNUST should be aware that the current L100 & L200 students have not had access to student’s loan since admission. Some of their seniors are in a similar situation, as the Student Loan Trust Fund struggles to meet its obligations due to GETFund’s liquidity challenges.
Demanding that a fee paying student settles GHC 7,000 out of their GHC 10,000 fees before being allowed to continue schooling or in default, defer is insensitive to the economic plight of the ordinary man. The fact that 6,000 students are involved suggests this is uncommon.
Some media houses sensationalizing the matter must stop the joke. This is serious business! About 6,000 students will not spend their fees betting and doing Uber. We play too much.
We know KNUST need the cash to run the school. The Minister of Education must intervene and find some cash for KNUST to chill.
Our Government is more than capable of supporting our future engineers and doctors to complete their study in times of economic difficulty.
Moving forward, lets fix our student loan system to disburse loans at the beginning of the academic year and in amounts relevant to paying fees, and not GH 2,500 which cannot pay 70% of a science student’s fees.
Our students must demand from their government that, the culture of loans arriving after the academic year be made history.
I know this is a small problem for main man Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum.”
By: Michael Djan
French Tutor and Digital Marketing Blogger/Content Writer and GhanaWeb Professional Reporter/ frencheducationgh.com