Felix Gyamfi, NSA Boss
The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has identified approximately 50 unaccredited universities that will not be accepted for national service, according to Felix Gyamfi, Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA).
In an interview on TV3’s Hot Issues, Mr. Gyamfi explained that these universities are excluded due to expired accreditations or lack of accreditation altogether.
“Already the GTEC approval process has mentioned or identified about 50 schools that will not be allowed to do national service”.
Mr. Gyamfi stated that the universities, 18 of them whose accreditations have expired yet were permitted to have their students engage in national service under the previous administration.
“The reason is either their accreditation has expired. For about 18 of them, they have never had accreditation at all but in the past, they were doing national service,” he revealed.
Mr. Gyamfi noted that the Authority has instituted transparent measures to prevent corrupt activities at the NSA following the infamous ‘Ghost names’ scandal.
As part of these measures, he explained that henceforth GTEC will be permitted to approve and verify accredited universities both public and private before graduates will be accepted for national service.
He said universities which are not approved by GTEC will not be allowed for national service.
“From now we are going to be very transparent about it. Whereas in the past they had not involved GTEC to approve the list of the universities and all that.
“I have sent every list of schools that we have received including the private people to GTEC. If GTEC says you are not in the list of their accredited universities, there’s no way you will be allowed to do national service either as a school or individual and then I will make the list available in the coming days,” he stated.