KNUST TO REVOKE AFFILIATION OF INSTITUTIONS - which louts regulations, DAILY GRAPHIC, FRI FEB 5, 10 (PAGE 11)

THE Registrar of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Mr Kobby Yebo-Okrah has warned institutions affiliated to the university that the KNUST would not hesitate to revoke the affiliation of such institutions that flout its set regulations.
Speaking at the 5th matriculation ceremony of Data Link University College in Tema, he said KNUST was a reputable institution and would not allow any educational establishment to dent its image.
He challenged the students to study diligently and be worthy ambassadors of the institute.
Mr Yebo-Okrah pointed out that the KNUST has put in place stringent requirements to be complied by its affiliated accredited institutions and that made it difficult for the growing number of higher institutions of learning seeking to be affiliated.
This according to him was to ensure that institutions that applied to be affiliated to the KNUST have the needed facilities in place for an effective teaching and learning to warrant their association.
Mr Yebo-Okrah noted that non compliance on the part of some young institutions to meet the university’s requirements has witnessed massive withdrawal of some applications while these applicant institutions use the acknowledgement of application letter heads from the university into deceiving prospective students and the general public of being affiliated to the KNUST.
The President of the College, Professor Rose Joshua, said Data Link as an institution is making strides to maintain leadership in higher education through the introduction of courses that are driven by national needs.
‘Our focus this year is to collaborate with the nurses and midwives council to introduce a programme in nursing with special emphasis in palliative, neonatal, midwifery and critical nursing care’, she remarked.
The programme according to her when introduced would aim towards building capacity at the local level so as to minimise the dependence on importation of human resources into the country’s health sector.
She challenged students to avail themselves as the institute made strides to shape a future for themselves and their families.
Out of the 625 students who were matriculated for the 2009/10 academic year, 360 were males while 265 of them were females including 14 foreign students.
Data Link Institute founded by a Ghanaian businessman, Mr Ernest Ansah started as a charitable organisation in 1993 through the distributions of computer and its accessories to less endowed schools across the country and later evolved into a computer training institute in 1996.
The institution in its quest to provide quality information technology education to citizens in 2006 received an accreditation from the National Accreditation Board to run degree programmes in computer science and business administration.
The institute which currently has a total students population of 1268 and runs a combine programme in computer science and information studies is affiliated KNUST.