A special arrangement has been made between the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy for the public universities to benefit from the limited load-shedding, reports Albert Salia.
The institutions are the University of Ghana, Legon; the University of Education, Winneba; the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi; the University of Cape Coast and the University for Development Studies.
The rest are the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), the University of Professional Studies, Accra, the University of Mines and Technology, the University of Energy and Natural Resources, the University of Health and Allied Sciences and the Ghana Institute of Journalism.
It is estimated that there are 135,000 students in the public tertiary universities in the country.
A Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary Education, Mr Sam Okudjeto Ablakwa, who disclosed this in an interview, said the exercise would be extended to the polytechnics and the private universities when their examinations were due.
He also said the Control Room of the ECG had been duly informed.
He explained that even when a power cut was necessary, it would be done during the day and restored in the evening to enable the students to study at night.
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