A major admission crisis is likely to confront the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) as the university has received a whopping number of over 40,000 applications for admission to its various programmes of study in the coming academic year.
Sadly enough, the university says it cannot admit even a quarter of the applicants (10,000) because of the inadequate facilities.
The large number of applicants was due to the three streams of students ( four-year SHS, three-year SHS and November/December ) vying for limited vacancies.
The Chancellor of the university, Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, who made this known at the special congregation for the School of Graduate Studies and Institute of Distance Learning at the Great Hall last Saturday, said the “hands of the university were tied and there was nothing it could do to save the situation now.”
“The way forward for us, as a nation, is to begin serious discussions on this whole issue of access to higher education and training,” he said.
Going further, the Asantehene suggested that a major breakthrough was the adoption of e-learning and the creation of virtual universities in Ghana.
A total of 1,902 students, made up of 1,079 from the institute of distance learning and 823 from the school of graduate studies, were presented with their degrees at the congregation.
