What research or books have these university teachers produced that they want monthly allowance? I wonder if they are indeed academia or they bought their way through. Can any of them tell all Ghanaians if their demands could ... read full comment
What research or books have these university teachers produced that they want monthly allowance? I wonder if they are indeed academia or they bought their way through. Can any of them tell all Ghanaians if their demands could be done in any civilized and western countries? Or they are just using their political backing to push for something they don't deserve. This nonsense will never happen in the US. We are all have our doctorate degrees and teaching but you don't get monthly research and book allowance. It is even hard to obtain Tenure let alone get free money. People are abusing the system to dupe Ghana. What is IMANI and organized labour saying or doing about this? Ghanaians must wake up against the academia and the so-called intellectuals who are destroying the country. It's a shame. This is robbery.
Ghanaba, USA 9 years ago
If the government invest in programs that are irrelevant for the economic development of the country the country will be at a loss, irrespective of the amount of resources allocated. If we invest in programs or courses which ... read full comment
If the government invest in programs that are irrelevant for the economic development of the country the country will be at a loss, irrespective of the amount of resources allocated. If we invest in programs or courses which do not impart skills and knowledge which can be used in the country we will still be in the dark. Secondly there is lot of redundancy or duplication of programs, e.g. each of the country’s old universities have business administration programs; how many business graduates can be absorbed by the economy, The government universities churn out over 15,000 graduates each year with varying skills and knowledge from mediocre to fair. Who is going to waste his/her money on employing graduates who cannot fairly communicate verbally or in writing, graduates who lack analytical and problem solving skills; some of these graduates don’t even possess the basic knowledge of their major fields of study. What are we teaching the children at elementary and secondary schools? How is knowledge being imparted? If college students can purchase some old photo-copied notes of their lecturers, chew and pour them without understanding the course material how do you expect them to perform in the real world.
The government should set up a committee to revamp education at each level; emphasizing on quality relevant education instead of mass production of illiterate (excuse me to say “not very uselful”) graduates and school children. We may need more technical and two-year colleges instead of 4-year useless programs.
OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago
Author:kalakuta
Date:2014-07-17 10:33:59
Comment to:Mahama needed Spio but not at Trade - IMANI
I consider Spio as MR FIX IT. Ato Ahwoi sometime in the pass swore that over his dead body would Spio be considered as ... read full comment
Author:kalakuta
Date:2014-07-17 10:33:59
Comment to:Mahama needed Spio but not at Trade - IMANI
I consider Spio as MR FIX IT. Ato Ahwoi sometime in the pass swore that over his dead body would Spio be considered as a govt appointee. What has changed since then. The NDC has failed to offer concrete solutions to the numerous challenges facing the country with the too known Ahwoi. Reality check has lead them to eat humble pie and go for the guy who is an effective performer, a man who has expertise in diagnosing and solving insurmountable challenges. GO SPIO GO NO CHALLENGER.
moyo 9 years ago
UTAG has to blame itself on govt's position. Over the years,UTAH take the Research and Book allowance for free. Only less than 20% of them actually research. The University Journal will attest to the fact that most lecturers ... read full comment
UTAG has to blame itself on govt's position. Over the years,UTAH take the Research and Book allowance for free. Only less than 20% of them actually research. The University Journal will attest to the fact that most lecturers do not do anything so the govt is right to change the policy. There should be a National Body set up to pay those who do the research with evidence. The rest can work for their salary.
KOJOVIE 9 years ago
Obourmaa, Keep your ignorance to yourself.
Obourmaa, Keep your ignorance to yourself.
Boateng 9 years ago
You said nothing useful!
You said nothing useful!
Nyansba 9 years ago
IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN PROPERLY EDUCATED, YOU WOULDN'T TALK LIKE THIS. NO WONDER ONLY BRAINLESS AND INCURABLY STUPID PEOPLE LIKE YOU SUPPORT THE NDC. THAT IS WHY WE ARE ALL SUFFERING TODAY.
IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN PROPERLY EDUCATED, YOU WOULDN'T TALK LIKE THIS. NO WONDER ONLY BRAINLESS AND INCURABLY STUPID PEOPLE LIKE YOU SUPPORT THE NDC. THAT IS WHY WE ARE ALL SUFFERING TODAY.
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
I think, in the face of collapse of Reason in Ghana, some of us must stake up our claims for leadership to bring back the march of progress and civilisation which have been stymied since the overthrow of the Nkrumah regime. T ... read full comment
I think, in the face of collapse of Reason in Ghana, some of us must stake up our claims for leadership to bring back the march of progress and civilisation which have been stymied since the overthrow of the Nkrumah regime. This claim for book and research allowances is simply a grotesque display of the bankruptcy that permeates the so-called academia in Ghana. And the Mahama regime is handling it so pathetically!
Govt has every right to change what it thinks is not in the national interest. And this research and book allowances are simply non-starters in any civilised academic and research you'd find in the West. Pure madness to introduce them in the first place.
This Dr Bekoe and his cohorts are just backward savages with univ. degrees. They are not fit for purpose in bring devt about.
Andy-K
Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago
What have the so called ministers and their forest of incompetent deputies done to deserve free accommodations, fat salaries and allowances, fleet of cars fuel daily at the cost of the taxpayer, government paid watchmen, hou ... read full comment
What have the so called ministers and their forest of incompetent deputies done to deserve free accommodations, fat salaries and allowances, fleet of cars fuel daily at the cost of the taxpayer, government paid watchmen, housemaids and garden boys, and above all, a police escort even when they are visiting their concubines? The behavior of the greedy president and his incompetent lieutenants is the root course of those civil strikes and agitations because they have taken us for fools for far too long. They take what they want from the national kitty without consulting the taxpayer, the pay masters on whose sweat they have everything virtually free. Come again Obournana for we the ordinary too deserve better.
Boateng 9 years ago
Is that what your demand for research allowance about? The politicians don't deserve what they take so you want to take what you don't deserve? Way to go then! "God Bless our homeland Ghana and make our nation great and ... read full comment
Is that what your demand for research allowance about? The politicians don't deserve what they take so you want to take what you don't deserve? Way to go then! "God Bless our homeland Ghana and make our nation great and strong"!
Yeahhhh. Ghana is on its way to become GREAT and STRONG with such demands!
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
I think a few quotes from previous articles should draw attention on these "astigmatised" lecturers and their ideational bankruptcy.
Prof. George Ayittey wrote in his Moon Shines Brightly piece:
From: George Ayittey ay ... read full comment
I think a few quotes from previous articles should draw attention on these "astigmatised" lecturers and their ideational bankruptcy.
Prof. George Ayittey wrote in his Moon Shines Brightly piece:
From: George Ayittey ayittey@american.edu
To: okyeame@AfricaOnline.com, africa_think_tank@databack.com,
Subject: THE MOON SHINES BRIGHTLY .......
At 19:07 25.06.97 -0700
THE MOON SHINES BRIGHTLY . . .
Sierra Leoneans have a proverb which goes like this: "The moon shines brightly but it is still dark in some places." A village elder might use this proverb in a situation like this. After scrounging under their mattresses, pots and pans for enough of their life savings to send a child to school, he returns to the village a disaster. He can't do anything right, making a mess of everything he touches. Whereupon an elder may look steely at him, shake his head and say, "The moon shines brightly but it is still dark in some places."
Indeed, for these lecturers, in spite of the fact that they "went to school plenty, plenty", there is darkness and cobwebs covering their faces and brains!
I wrote in response to Prof. Ayittey:
Anyway, his post sent me back to something I had then been raising for quite some time on Okyeame. It touches the type of education which the young man in the Prof's story receives which makes him "mess" things up. In the Prof's own word in his presentation at NAROG 1 in Washington, become "astigmatised intellectual".
This problem was well captured in the response given by some “Red Indians” to the invitation sent to them by the white colonisers of America who requested for some young Indians to be "educated" in their new colleges. The Indians, of course, recognised the problem but their way of dealing with it saw them ending up in the squalid reservations they live in today, forerunners to the Bantustans those geniis of Apartheid were creating in South Africa.
The story is told of how by 1744 the colonisers of America had established the three colleges (Harvard, William and Mary, and Yale). Of course, they were all built according to the then British model; to teach young men in Greek, Latin, grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, and philosophy. The colonies of Maryland and Virginia entered into agreement with the Indians of the Six Nations, and in June 1744, invited them to send some of their young men to be educated at William and Mary. The Indians politely turned down the offer. I quote in full their response I have, courtesy of the infamous Flatin Committee's Report, "Grenselos Læring" (Borderless Learning) (NOU 1989: 24), which I have the enforced honour of being associated with as the then Chairperson of the Foreign Students Union of Trondheim (FSUT).
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"We know that you highly esteem the kind of learning taught in those colleges, and that the Maintenance of our Young Men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinced, therefore, that you mean to do us good by your Proposal; and we thank you heartily. But you, who are wise, must know different nations have different conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of Education happen not to be same with yours. We have some Experience of it. Several of our Young People were formerly brought up at the colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences; but when they came back to us, they were bad Runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either Cold or Hunger, knew neither how to build a Cabin, take a Deer, or kill an Enemy, spoke our Language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for Hunters, Warriors nor Councellors; they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less oblig'd by your kind offer, tho' we decline accepting it; and to show our Grateful Sense of it; if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a Dozen of their sons, we will take care of their Education, instruct them in all we know, and make Men of them."
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Indeed, hidden in the above quote is the root for explaining what causes "educated" Africans to "mess up", become designated as bankrupt or "astigmatised" intellectuals. I do not intend to delve into the processes here and now, as it is a major issue why the kind of education we have in Africa is failing to deliver development to the continent. I only consider it fit to bring it to the attention of the learned Prof. and sundry, since it appears to me that that realisation seems to lack in his (Prof's) and a great many others' world view of why we Africans are what we are - the chickens are simply coming home to roost!
It is simply a question of whether the "young men" and now young women are receiving the right type of education in the first place – an education largely devoid of any practical training and experience in the skills required to cope with and transform their respective environment and societies.
With some ignorantly calling for the return of former missionary established schools to the churches in order to purportedly instill discipline in pupils and students - which missionary education is at the core of the problem - I’d recommend that such ignoramuses go and read at least the book, “The Missionaries” by Monkhouse as the first step in enlightening themselves. And then we can take a look at the much talked about failure of educated Africans to behave and perform just like their European (and now Asian) counterparts.
Unquote
Yes, some of these Ghanaian Profs had attended those Ivy League insts. in America and Europe, but they have been proving over the decades that, they are also not good for nothing!
Tweah! We MUST declare war on them too if Ghana is to move from the quagmire it is in.
Andy-K
gffhhhc 9 years ago
Ablakwa should announce a library card program for these teachers to get access to e-books and e-journals. Don't give them cash. Respect the Ghanaian taxpayers.
Ablakwa should announce a library card program for these teachers to get access to e-books and e-journals. Don't give them cash. Respect the Ghanaian taxpayers.
IDRIS PACAS 9 years ago
Book and research allowances are
meant for books and research and not for merely reading through other person's work.
Book and research allowances are
meant for books and research and not for merely reading through other person's work.
Boateng 9 years ago
hahahahahaha! Reading through other person's work!
hahahahahaha! Reading through other person's work!
Obournana 9 years ago
Dr. Bekoe should come again. What tools is he talking about? Research and book allowance? Has he ever been to any university abroad to make this irresponsible comment. Is he not ashamed that his colleagues in the US or Europ ... read full comment
Dr. Bekoe should come again. What tools is he talking about? Research and book allowance? Has he ever been to any university abroad to make this irresponsible comment. Is he not ashamed that his colleagues in the US or Europe will read and see him as useless? What book has Dr. Bekoe wrote? We need innovation in the country. What research has he done to warrant allowance? How is research allowance provided in other countries? Do you receive money for not doing anything? Dr. Bekoe is a criminal as per his irresponsible attitude. Or he is doing it for his paymasters, a political party that want Ghana to collapse?
Boateng 9 years ago
My friend, tell it to that DUMBASS! I am sorry to use that word but he is a criminal.
How is research funded elsewhere? If he does not know or understand these basics then he should not even utter the word research!
... read full comment
My friend, tell it to that DUMBASS! I am sorry to use that word but he is a criminal.
How is research funded elsewhere? If he does not know or understand these basics then he should not even utter the word research!
If he is good enough he can get money from many organizations or corporations that have Billions of dollars of research funds. He should rather educate his peers in Ghana on how to obtain research funds from other sources and stop being a fool. Sorry again.
I suggest the Government sell off all these Tertiary Institutions to Private entities and let us see how many of these lecturers can keep their jobs!
C.Y. ANDY-K 9 years ago
This was written and published prior to the start of the POTAG strike.Isn't it amazing that lecturers in Ghana should be agitating for book allowance in this age of Kindles and e-books? Another BIG TWEEAAH TO THEM!
THE BOO ... read full comment
This was written and published prior to the start of the POTAG strike.Isn't it amazing that lecturers in Ghana should be agitating for book allowance in this age of Kindles and e-books? Another BIG TWEEAAH TO THEM!
THE BOOK AND RESEARCH ALLOWANCES BROUHAHA
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) and the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) are currently embroiled in a dispute with government over the cancellation of book and research allowances to lecturers in the tertiary institutions of Ghana. Threatened strike actions have just been suspended pending the outcome of negotiations between the parties to the dispute. I urge government not to buckle to these threats and dastardly blackmail.
Some of us were horrified when we read of the institution of these book and research allowances in the tertiary institutions in the mid-1990s by the NDC Rawlings regime. I wrote against it on the Okyeame forum and received a lot of support from forumers, many of them lecturers in tertiary institutions in the West. A couple of professors from the universities in Ghana on sabbaticals in the US sent me private mails agreeing with me and disagreeing with the new order that was just announced. I was myself then, besides a graduate student and teaching assistant in the University of Bergen, a research assistant at Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI), the largest development and human rights research institute in Scandinavia. A rich country like Norway would not dream of such insane dole outs of public money to lecturers.
I would like to reiterate my objection to what is a gross aberration in the development process designed to just cushion the take home pay of lecturers rather than boost any serious book acquisition, teaching and research efforts, and therefore back the cancellation of the gross anomaly. I would also like to suggest some rational measures to replace the existing wasteful practice, a cynical joke which tax payers must not be burdened with any longer, having just recently been spared some “by force” road toll in Legon.
Those who support the present egregious practice are free to supply to us its evaluation, giving us the number of publications - peer reviewed or not - which each of the recipients have authored over the years and how well they have improved their teaching practices.
It is a fact that our tertiary institutions lack publications to support any meaningful research and teaching, as a visit to any of their main libraries, such as Balme Library in Legon, will show. But the solution is not a privatisation of measures to acquire such publications. The first step in resolving the problem is stocking their libraries, both main and departmental ones, with the latest publications: newspapers, magazines, journals, books, audio visuals, micro films, data bases, etc. Yes, stocking the libraries shall be the main focus.
In conjunction with the above, the book shops on the campuses must be regularly stocked with same publications. In view of this, the university publishing presses must be revamped to secure the rights to publish certain books locally, instead of the present practice of even publishing books for primary schools abroad! It is simply gross!
As it would not be financially and logistically feasible to buy and stock all publications, there must be a selection process to acquire relevant ones only. There are some standard, mainstream publications – books, journals, magazines and newspapers - which it’d be a matter of course to acquire. Books that form part of the curricula, which curricula must be reviewed regularly to include new publications, would be acquired routinely. New books, however, require some element of discretion and lecturers within departments may collectively deliberate upon which to acquire for their institutes, and eventually add to the reading list.
Publishers regularly send catalogues of upcoming publications to educational and research institutions and libraries. Steps must be taken to get such catalogues from both local and foreign publishers. As the practice was in CMI - and I believe still is - the catalogues are passed round from the library to the researchers upstairs to mark any of the publications they want to be acquired for the library, or their own use. If you want a personal copy to keep, one is acquired for you and you pay for it from your own pocket, benefiting from the hefty subsidy the publishers give to the library. If you do not want a copy, you use the one acquired for the library and return it after using it. I availed myself of the opportunity to acquire a couple of books for myself at knocked down prices, one of them not even related directly to my studies, Africa Ark by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, which provided me with great insight about the peoples of the Horn of Africa, their past and the development challenges we Africans face.
RESEARCH FUNDS
There is need for a three-tiered source of publicly funded funds to lecturers and researchers who want to carry out research requiring funding – the departmental, the university/polytechnic level and the national level.
Funds must be provided to each department to fund some minimum level of research in their fields of specialisation, which fund lecturers shall compete for, or just be granted some funding from for minor expenses linked to their field works, for example. That way, they can build up their research capabilities and capacities to world class levels, capable of attracting independently/privately funded researches and consultancies. We can expect those in the physical and engineering sciences to come out with innovative findings and discoveries which can be commercialised.
There must be a bigger research fund at the university/polytechnic level available to all departments and institutes. Each year, a certain number of researches must be funded on specific areas of interest that contribute to knowledge and the development of Ghana and Africa in general. Lecturers apply to such a fund in competition with each other by presenting research proposals and budget. Not even in the recognised Ivy League institutions of the West are lecturers undertaking research from one year to another necessitating funding them. After all, there are specialised research institutes with full time researchers undertaking research into vital issues for their states. What about Ghana?
The government must maintain a national fund for research into areas of concern to the government and the public. In view of this, the government shall specify the area it wants to be researched and invites researchers to present research proposals and budget to carry them out. A panel of scholars running the fund shall determine the winner/s. This suggestion is nothing novel but simply what pertains in the civilised nations. The Federal Government of the USA is thus the largest source of research funding in the US.
In spite of the fact that Ken Kuranchie came out from prison, realised that Ghanaians are not civilised and blurted it out just like that, it does not mean that we cannot begin to emulate some of the civilised ways of the people acclaimed to be civilised, if we intend to get out of the ditch into which some have run the state of Ghana since the demise of Kwame Nkrumah. Or, should I say, since the grandfathers and great grand uncles of some of us handed over the affairs of the Gold Coast to the wannabe leaders of the new nation tagged Ghana?
Besides these suggestions, the tertiary institutions must be proactive in seeking private individuals and corporate bodies to set up foundations and legacies to support research within respective departments.
Andy C. Y. Kwawukume
cyandyk@ymail.com
KING LOMOTEY 9 years ago
Publish or perish !
How many of you have written an article (s), manuscript , book or even E-book. Let's expend
our time, money, and energy to add to the knowledge-base of our nation by reading, researching, and writing. ... read full comment
Publish or perish !
How many of you have written an article (s), manuscript , book or even E-book. Let's expend
our time, money, and energy to add to the knowledge-base of our nation by reading, researching, and writing. Truth be told, we don't write enough.
The Mask 9 years ago
There are many fields where Ghana lacks the needed expertise. To solve this problem the government of Ghana has over the decades made scholarships available for the needed human resource to be trained abroad. In some cases so ... read full comment
There are many fields where Ghana lacks the needed expertise. To solve this problem the government of Ghana has over the decades made scholarships available for the needed human resource to be trained abroad. In some cases so many people were sent and not even one returned. If you know you are not prepared to work and live in Ghana and would therefore not return do not take the scholarships.
The Takoradi Poly Students who were sacked for applying with fake certificates must be prosecuted in a court of competent jurisdiction. Just sacking them is not enough.
Nowadays businesses and government organisations have stopped demanding Secondary School Certificate or Basic Education Certificate.
Each of these certificates are important. For example for many tertiary graduates the only certificate that can tell whether one can speak good English or whether one has adequate knowledge of Mathematics is the Secondary School Certificate.
Similarly the only certificate that can tell whether a tertiary graduate has basic knowledge of Ghanaian history, culture, agriculture and the basic geography of West Africa is the Basic Education Certificate.
Gandalf 9 years ago
THANK YOU DR. BEKOE. GOVT MUST LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF REASON. AND ACT ACCORDING TO LAW. WE LECTURED ABLAKWA. HE HAS NEVER WORKED IN A GOVT OFFICE BEFORE BECOMING A MINISTER SO HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.
THANK YOU DR. BEKOE. GOVT MUST LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF REASON. AND ACT ACCORDING TO LAW. WE LECTURED ABLAKWA. HE HAS NEVER WORKED IN A GOVT OFFICE BEFORE BECOMING A MINISTER SO HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.
Boateng 9 years ago
Gandalf, that is why you should get nothing! You did not do good job lecturing Ablakwa! See?
Your statment here shows that you are limitted, Ghana should not reward you you with "money for research"!
Gandalf, that is why you should get nothing! You did not do good job lecturing Ablakwa! See?
Your statment here shows that you are limitted, Ghana should not reward you you with "money for research"!
tijani 9 years ago
check the names, then why should you guys seek for similar positions in other universities in Ashanti, North, central ,,,,,, UHAS UTAG is under the Presidency of Dr Francis Zotor, Head of the Department of Public Health, UHAS ... read full comment
check the names, then why should you guys seek for similar positions in other universities in Ashanti, North, central ,,,,,, UHAS UTAG is under the Presidency of Dr Francis Zotor, Head of the Department of Public Health, UHAS.
The rest of the executives are Peter Adatara, Vice-President, Reuben Ayivor-Djanie
Pee 9 years ago
If u want NDC government to go so that another government to come n pay u ur condition of service allowance as u call it, think twice. Things has to be change in Ghana. Research Fund will at the end build well equipped labora ... read full comment
If u want NDC government to go so that another government to come n pay u ur condition of service allowance as u call it, think twice. Things has to be change in Ghana. Research Fund will at the end build well equipped laboratories 4our school where u will teach adequately. As a teacher I agree with the research fund.
taguchi 9 years ago
Colleagues join potag to fight hard to benefit from the synergy. Dont be kowtow by that disgraced professor minister and the foolish baby with a sharp teeth with their moron president.long live utag and potag.more fire. Profe ... read full comment
Colleagues join potag to fight hard to benefit from the synergy. Dont be kowtow by that disgraced professor minister and the foolish baby with a sharp teeth with their moron president.long live utag and potag.more fire. Professional fire go burn them.
What research or books have these university teachers produced that they want monthly allowance? I wonder if they are indeed academia or they bought their way through. Can any of them tell all Ghanaians if their demands could ...
read full comment
If the government invest in programs that are irrelevant for the economic development of the country the country will be at a loss, irrespective of the amount of resources allocated. If we invest in programs or courses which ...
read full comment
Author:kalakuta
Date:2014-07-17 10:33:59
Comment to:Mahama needed Spio but not at Trade - IMANI
I consider Spio as MR FIX IT. Ato Ahwoi sometime in the pass swore that over his dead body would Spio be considered as ...
read full comment
UTAG has to blame itself on govt's position. Over the years,UTAH take the Research and Book allowance for free. Only less than 20% of them actually research. The University Journal will attest to the fact that most lecturers ...
read full comment
Obourmaa, Keep your ignorance to yourself.
You said nothing useful!
IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN PROPERLY EDUCATED, YOU WOULDN'T TALK LIKE THIS. NO WONDER ONLY BRAINLESS AND INCURABLY STUPID PEOPLE LIKE YOU SUPPORT THE NDC. THAT IS WHY WE ARE ALL SUFFERING TODAY.
I think, in the face of collapse of Reason in Ghana, some of us must stake up our claims for leadership to bring back the march of progress and civilisation which have been stymied since the overthrow of the Nkrumah regime. T ...
read full comment
What have the so called ministers and their forest of incompetent deputies done to deserve free accommodations, fat salaries and allowances, fleet of cars fuel daily at the cost of the taxpayer, government paid watchmen, hou ...
read full comment
Is that what your demand for research allowance about? The politicians don't deserve what they take so you want to take what you don't deserve? Way to go then! "God Bless our homeland Ghana and make our nation great and ...
read full comment
I think a few quotes from previous articles should draw attention on these "astigmatised" lecturers and their ideational bankruptcy.
Prof. George Ayittey wrote in his Moon Shines Brightly piece:
From: George Ayittey ay ...
read full comment
Ablakwa should announce a library card program for these teachers to get access to e-books and e-journals. Don't give them cash. Respect the Ghanaian taxpayers.
Book and research allowances are
meant for books and research and not for merely reading through other person's work.
hahahahahaha! Reading through other person's work!
Dr. Bekoe should come again. What tools is he talking about? Research and book allowance? Has he ever been to any university abroad to make this irresponsible comment. Is he not ashamed that his colleagues in the US or Europ ...
read full comment
My friend, tell it to that DUMBASS! I am sorry to use that word but he is a criminal.
How is research funded elsewhere? If he does not know or understand these basics then he should not even utter the word research!
...
read full comment
This was written and published prior to the start of the POTAG strike.Isn't it amazing that lecturers in Ghana should be agitating for book allowance in this age of Kindles and e-books? Another BIG TWEEAAH TO THEM!
THE BOO ...
read full comment
Publish or perish !
How many of you have written an article (s), manuscript , book or even E-book. Let's expend
our time, money, and energy to add to the knowledge-base of our nation by reading, researching, and writing. ...
read full comment
There are many fields where Ghana lacks the needed expertise. To solve this problem the government of Ghana has over the decades made scholarships available for the needed human resource to be trained abroad. In some cases so ...
read full comment
THANK YOU DR. BEKOE. GOVT MUST LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF REASON. AND ACT ACCORDING TO LAW. WE LECTURED ABLAKWA. HE HAS NEVER WORKED IN A GOVT OFFICE BEFORE BECOMING A MINISTER SO HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT.
Gandalf, that is why you should get nothing! You did not do good job lecturing Ablakwa! See?
Your statment here shows that you are limitted, Ghana should not reward you you with "money for research"!
check the names, then why should you guys seek for similar positions in other universities in Ashanti, North, central ,,,,,, UHAS UTAG is under the Presidency of Dr Francis Zotor, Head of the Department of Public Health, UHAS ...
read full comment
If u want NDC government to go so that another government to come n pay u ur condition of service allowance as u call it, think twice. Things has to be change in Ghana. Research Fund will at the end build well equipped labora ...
read full comment
Colleagues join potag to fight hard to benefit from the synergy. Dont be kowtow by that disgraced professor minister and the foolish baby with a sharp teeth with their moron president.long live utag and potag.more fire. Profe ...
read full comment