GTEC to block some tertiary graduates from doing national service

Tertiary institution graduates who studied programmes that have not been duly accredited by the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission would be barred from doing national service, the Director of GTEC, Jinapor Abdulai has said.

The Acting Director General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) at a meeting with the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) also said tertiary graduates with certificates of unaccredited programmes would not be employed.

Professor Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai commended Members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for bringing to the fore the problem of delay in issuing accreditation to new programmes in various tertiary institutions in the country.

This comes after he told Daily Graphic in an interview that GTEC would submit the list of unaccredited programmes and institutions to all government agencies so that they would not employ university graduates who had a certificate for a programme that was not accredited.

The Acting Director-General of GTEC, Prof Ahmed Abdulai Jinapor advised the public, particularly students to always visit the commission’s website to ensure they do not accept to pursue programmes that had not been accredited.

“We are going to put a moratorium on acceptance of new applications until all the accreditation environment is sanitised, and the caveat is that not all institutions are culpable,” the GTEC Director-General told Graphic newspaper.

The Professor said some of such universities had been invited for a discussion after the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission under the auspices of the Ministry of Education met with its council to discuss the proposal to that effect.

The Tertiary Commissions Director-General said his outfit was making a strong case for individuals who sought employment in the public sector, in particular, to provide evidence that their certificates were evaluated by GTEC.

“You will agree with me that there is a proliferation of fake certificates by virtue of computerisation and digitalisation; people are able to generate certificates,” Professor Ahmed Abdulai Jinapor said in the discussion with Daily Graphic.