Parliament’s Education Committee clears UG over fee increment

The Education Committee of Parliament believes that the University of Ghana management’s decision to increase fees was right.

This comes after the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) and the Students Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Ghana petitioned the committee, accusing management of the school and other public universities of defying a directive from Parliament instructing them to raise fees by 15%.

Management of the school has justified its decision to raise the fees.

Speaking to Citi News following a stakeholder meeting, Parliament’s Ranking Member on the Education Committee, Peter Nortsu Kotoe, stated that the University of Ghana acted legally.

“We received a petition from the SRC and NUGS that the fees that the University of Ghana was charging were high and that it was contrary to what was approved by Parliament. So we invited them based on that petition. The University of Ghana by our observation has not done anything contrary to the law. They worked within the remits of the law. That has been established.”

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