Public Agenda

University fees?The poor to drop out

 

The Public Agenda says the fear that fees for tertiary education may rise beyond the reach of most students, has become a reality sooner than expected.

In a front page story, the paper reports that the new fees being considered by the University of Ghana, Legon, is only part of the actual costs students have to pay from next academic year.

The Public Agenda says the figures leaked to students by the university?s registry last week, represent only costs directly linked to their academic work and not the total cost of training a university student. Tuition, cost of utilities such as water, electricity and telephone, as well as maintenance of other infrastructure, are yet to be added to the proposed fees.

According to the proposed fees, student would pay fees ranging from 1.05 million cedis to 2.9 million cedis for freshmen and women. Continuing students would pay between 890,000 cedis and 1.8 million cedis.