Provide KNUST financial clearance to recruit more staff

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has appealed to the authorities to assistance other fiscal clearance to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to enlistee much world and administrative staff.

A caller five-year cyclical reappraisal of the assemblage by the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) brought to fore the unfavourable lecturer-student ratio successful the university.

The Asantehene said the existent concern had placed a strain connected the university’s dedicated lecturers, threatening the prime of teaching and learning provided to thousands of students by KNUST.

Congregation

Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who is the Chancellor of the university, made the telephone past Saturday, November 29, 2025, portion addressing the 59th Congregation of KNUST during which 17,132 students, made up of 14,764 undergraduates and 2,338 postgraduate students, graduated.

As portion of the ceremony, immoderate distinguished personalities were conferred with honorary doctorate degrees, others with distinguished chap awards and peculiar awards to immoderate firm institutions and individuals.

The Vice-President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, was the impermanent of honour.

“I telephone connected the authorities to dainty this substance with urgency and arsenic a motivation obligation, for it is not simply a question of numbers but of the precise aboriginal of our younker and the nation,” helium pointed out.

Empowerment

Otumfuo stated that the nation’s universities indispensable beryllium empowered to supply not lone instruction, but besides the adjacent guidance of mentorship that moulded leaders, innovators and custodians of Ghana’s destiny, saying “only past tin we prolong the prime of acquisition that prepares our graduates to conscionable the demands of a rapidly changing world”.

“Unemployment among the younker is simply a nationalist concern, and I, therefore, telephone connected President John Dramani Mahama to instrumentality keen involvement successful this captious contented and instrumentality the indispensable efforts to code it,” helium said.

Encroachment

He utilized the juncture to contented a solemn and unequivocal informing against immoderate encroachment connected KNUST lands, saying “however, I person received reports indicating that immoderate recalcitrant radical proceed to trial our resolve”.

“Let me, therefore, accidental again with implicit clarity and without equivocation that immoderate encroachment upon KNUST onshore volition not beryllium tolerated,” helium stressed, adding that the lands were ineffable legacies entrusted to them by their forebears and reserved for the acquisition of unborn generations.

“Any effort to prey connected the lands is an onslaught connected that ineffable trust, and volition beryllium met with decisive action. I hereby bid each who person specified intentions to desist and support distant from these ineffable KNUST lands,” the Asantehene emphasised.

KNUST teaching hospital

Otumfuo Osei Tutu expressed excitement astir caller authorities committedness towards completing the 18-year-old KNUST Teaching Hospital with the merchandise of GH¢46 cardinal for the enactment and an further $38 cardinal to equip the facility.

Similarly, helium mentioned the government’s committedness to conception lecture theatres astatine a outgo of $10 million, and said “I spot that this is not a specified committedness and I cognize that the authorities volition deliver”.

Otumfuo told the students that arsenic they stepped into the wider world, they should fto innovation usher them, ideas and integrity should anchor their actions and compassion signifier their leadership.

Research fund

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Rita Akosua Dickson, said successful enactment with the university’s committedness to impactful probe that addressed nationalist and planetary challenges, the assemblage awarded implicit GH¢1.5 cardinal to 29 elder members from the KNUST probe money to undertake assorted research.

That, she said, brought the full of probe grants awarded to unit since the constitution of the money successful 2016 to GH¢7 million.

Similarly, immoderate module members during the play worked hard to get outer grants totalling $8.9 million.

Prof. Mrs Dickson besides congratulated immoderate module members of the assemblage who were precocious appointed arsenic ambassadors and assembly chairmen of sister universities, among different appointments.

Further, the Vice-Chancellor advised the students not to underestimate the powerfulness of starting small, adjacent if the prospects of the occupation interrogation looked high, saying “grow and nurture your resilience and ever retrieve that giving up tin ne'er beryllium an option”.

Writer’s email: gilbert.agbey@graphic.com.gh