Student laments over delayed certificates

Products of Kumasi and Mampong campuses of the University College of Education, Winneba (UCEW) get their certificates more than three years after graduation.

Mr Samuel Antwi, member of the 1999 Kumasi Campus congregation said: "We are being discriminated against. We are being held back deliberately thus stalling our progress academically."

According to a GNA story, he said in an interview that a similar fate befell him in 1995 when he completed a diploma course while in the same campus.

"I had my certificate in 1998 but my counterparts at the South Campus (Winneba) took their certificate after the congregation."

He said after that experience he tried to impress on the university authorities the need for early release of certificates but to no avail. "Now, I have been to the Dean of Applied Arts and Technology, Mr S.N.Sackey and the Office of the Assistant Registrar (Academic) only to hear that our certificates are not ready."

He said the only explanation he got at each turn was that the issuing authority, University of Cape Coast, was working on the certificates.

Mr Antwi said the delay was seriously hindering the academic ambitions of many of his colleagues who wanted to pursue further studies.