President of the privately owned Ghana Technology University College (GTUC), Mr Emmanuel Afoakwa has given insights on his readiness to sale the innovative institution to the Government
Business Hilights recalls that frantic efforts of Nigerian former Minister of Communications, Barr Adebayo Shittu to create Nigerian ICT University failed at the Senate when the lawmakers rubbished the project, saying every University in Nigeria offers courses in ICT hence no need for special tertiary institution for the industry.
Revealing more during a courtesy visit to Reverend Johnson Avuletey, the Deputy Volta Regional Minister as part of his tour of the Ho campus of GTUC, Afoakwa noted that the decision had been taken awaiting parliamentary approval for the private technology university to be made a public university.
He said his visit was to see at first hand, the progress of the University and to appeal to the Volta Regional Coordinating Council (VRCC) to help the institution acquire a land for the construction of a permanent campus in Ho.
The GTUC President added that Ghana was going digital, thus, the need to position the country to embrace digitisation, saying, the University was poised to produce the needed human resource in terms of information technology to meet that challenge.
Rev. Avuletey pledged VRCC’s support and tasked the Regional Lands Commission Department to help secure a land as soon as possible, noting, the current campus did not provide conducive environment for studies.
Mr Frank Senyo Loglo, Acting Registrar, Ho campus of GTUC asked students to use their expertise and the networks to help augment government and management’s efforts to build a formidable GTUC.
A statement made available to Business Hilights Ghana Bureau chief reports that the former Ghana Telecom University College founded in 2005 by the then Ghana Telecom, the national telecommunications company, is an academically comprehensive and globally inclined urban and rural technology university, dedicated to advancing knowledge and providing students with a valuable, rigorous, experiential, technology-infused education.
