Parliamentary Select Committee on Education worries over exorbitant distance education fees
Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah, a member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education, expressed concern about the exorbitant fees charged by universities running distance education programmes during a working visit to the GTEC Headquarters in Accra. He stated, "This issue of disparity between the distance programmes and the regular programmes is way expensive, while in other jurisdictions, it is the other way round," and asked what the Commission was doing about that. He called on the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission to look into the matter.
The committee, led by Chairman Peter Nortsu-Kotoe, Vice Chairman Joseph Kwame Kumah, and Ranking Member Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, included Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah, Edem R.K. Kpolosu, Professor Nyako, and Abdul-Fatawu Alhassan as members. Other members shared concerns that universities were taking undue advantage under the pretence of expanding tertiary education. Dr. Adutwum also expressed concern that some university programmes did not guarantee jobs for graduates and advised GTEC to seek funding from development partners for programme ranking.
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