The National President of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Dr. Harry Agbanu, has lamented the increasing number of students in public Universities which is having negative health implications on some lecturers, even leading to the death.
According to him, the pressures of handling large numbers of students has earned many lecturers a regular spot in hospitals.
Per regulations of the National Council of Tertiary Students, lecturer-student should be pegged at 1 to 75. However, in most public institutions, one lecturer could handle up-to 800 students – more than ten times the stipulated ratio.
Dr. Agbanu’s comments comes on the back of a recent announcement by government that some 1018 lecturers will be cleared to be employed by the various public tertiary education institutions in the country following an earlier embargo on new staff recruitments.
According to him, the association took government’s decision to back down on the moratorium “with a pinch of salt because it is unclear whether the 1018 lecturers recruited for the public universities are exclusively lecturers or other categories of workers.”
He emphasized that the Universities need more than the said 1018 lecturers to function effectively.
Speaking on Campus Exclusive, the UTAG president noted that “lecturers have endured the situation for too long but it is now becoming too difficult to cope” and it seems government is putting in very little effort to allay their burdens.
He decried government’s inability to clear the University of Ghana to recruit the requested 700 staff and instead, recruited only 200.
He further revealed that the University of Ghana had been forced to recruit over 140 lecturers who are being paid via internally generated funds.
Mr. Agbanu also disputed claims by the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Francis Gbadago that government provided the exact number of lecturers demanded by the institutions.
He noted that the association is uncertain about government’s commitment to recruiting the said 1018 lecturers across the various public Universities to augment the shortfall as the association, as well as management of the public Universities are yet to receive an official statement from government or the Ministry of Education to the effect.
By: Marie-Franz Fordjoe/ Radio Univers 105.7FM
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