Parliament to review retiring age for lecturers

A back-page story of the Free Press states that Parliament will soon be requested to see to the up ward review of the compulsory retiring age of lecturers in the country's Universities.

The Vice-President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, announced this when speaking at the 34th Congregation of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), in Kumasi at the weekend.

He was of the view that, academic knowledge matures with age, and promised that the government would guarantee academic freedom to all institutions of higher learning so that they could generate ideas for the benefit of the whole country.

He called on the stakeholders, particularly industry and commerce and all those who stand to benefit from the skills of graduates to finance education.

Alhaji Aliu, entreated the graduates who might feel despaired over where they would be working after their national duty to the state to be at ease since the government was in touch with friends and partners overseas and was in discussions with other nations to put in place mechanisms to stabilize the economy to encourage manufacturing industries to produce more which requires more labour and create jobs.

The Vice-President who is an aluminus of KNUST, promised that the government would consider the possibility of granting tax exemption to individuals and organisations who donate freely to education institutions as the case had been in other countries.