Chief of Staff advises varsities not to overburden lecturers… as MUCG holds Congregation & Matriculation

The government has called on the management of both private and public universities in Ghana, not to overburden lecturers with extra-teaching assignments to jeopardize their levels of efficiency, as well as the future of their students.

Speaking at the Congregation and Matriculation of the Methodist University College Ghana (MUCG) held in Accra over the weekend, the Chief of Staff, Mr. John Henry Martey Newman, stressed that lecturers must endeavour to balance their work load, to ensure that they give off their best to the students who look up to them.

He pointed out that the private tertiary institutions should not operate with purely profit motives, but ensure the basic roles of universities, and the positive impact they should make on society.

Mr. Martey Newman noted that the emergence of private tertiary institutions to partner the government in shouldering the responsibility has been a welcome relief. With the commercial discovery of oil in Ghana, the Chief of Staff was hopeful that “Government is looking forward to tertiary institutions introducing relevant programmes of study that would help meet challenges in the petro-chemical industry.”

Mr. Martey Newman welcomed the school's efforts at putting in place plans to set up a character and moral department centre, to train, not only its own regular students, but other students as well.

“The government, being truly interested in the moral development of the Ghanaian people, will follow this project with keen interest, and urges you to bring it to an early realisation,” he added.

Mr. Martey Newman commended the MUCG for being a trail-blazer in the establishment of a Faculty of Agriculture in the country.

He therefore assured students that the government was doing everything in its power and more, to ensure job opportunities would be created for Ghanaians, both graduates and non-graduates.

He commended the private tertiary institutions for their timely interventions in the promotion of tertiary education in the country.

The Principal of MUCG, Professor Samuel Adjepong, advised the matriculants to set themselves high academic and moral standards, adding “you should aim at obtaining a first class honours degree.”

He assured them that the lecturers would give all the support needed to be able to excel academically, and mould character, in accordance with sound Christian principles.

“At MUCG, you have the opportunity to lay a good foundation for future academic pursuits. Whether you are continuing with your studies or entering straight into a career, after here, your success will depend a lot on the ethical values you learnt and internalized while you were here. You have been actively cultivated to be leaders in all walks of life. We therefore expect that you will help build a tradition of leadership that will distinguish you as graduates of MUCG. You must be shining examples of moral uprightness, discipline, decent dressing and leadership,” Professor Agyepong told the students.