KNUST’s focus on law, arts worrying – Group

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BJ 6 years ago

How can this man talk like this. What effect has law education in a different faculty got to do with engineering education? Everybody in Ghana just gets up and talks keke!!

How can this man talk like this. What effect has law education in a different faculty got to do with engineering education? Everybody in Ghana just gets up and talks keke!!
Yakagbormor 6 years ago

BJ you are an idiot okay. Bow your head in shame you illiterate. Knust was built purposely to educate technologists, scientist etc. Today, the school cannot even produce a mechanic. You wonder why there is dumsor in Ghana? Th ...
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BJ you are an idiot okay. Bow your head in shame you illiterate. Knust was built purposely to educate technologists, scientist etc. Today, the school cannot even produce a mechanic. You wonder why there is dumsor in Ghana? Think for God's sake. BJ, you are a true idiot. Yes, what use is swahili degree from KNUST (tech. Institution) to a failing country like Ghana? A country where even condoms are imported? Please BJ think.
William. 6 years ago

Bj does not know what is education.he is among the masses that believe GH should import everything. If nkrumah wanted knust to do business n law course he would have done that from the very beginning.

Bj does not know what is education.he is among the masses that believe GH should import everything. If nkrumah wanted knust to do business n law course he would have done that from the very beginning.
BJ 6 years ago

Ignorance again, William. You do not even know that right from the inception of Tech there was the Faculty of Art. So when people like you talk about things you do not know it is very pitiful. Go to Tech and ask things for yo ...
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Ignorance again, William. You do not even know that right from the inception of Tech there was the Faculty of Art. So when people like you talk about things you do not know it is very pitiful. Go to Tech and ask things for yourself and stop talking keke. Just being part of the Ignorant Chior that keeps singing same chorus of importing everything including condoms and yet being the same people who never patronize goods made in Ghana. Just a bunch of talkers. Even your name William is imported and you do not see anything wrong with that. Or you need Tech to manufacture a Ghanaian name for you? Do not bring your ignorant self.
BJ 6 years ago

You are indeed Yakagbomor. As your name is so is your brain - worthless! Ignorant to the highest order. You are thinking this way and you call yourself normal? Please go for some evaluation. How can you say Tech was set up to ...
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You are indeed Yakagbomor. As your name is so is your brain - worthless! Ignorant to the highest order. You are thinking this way and you call yourself normal? Please go for some evaluation. How can you say Tech was set up to train mechanics? Goes that sound right to your worthless brain? Do you want the university to leave is core mandate and take over the job of Suame magazine? If 10% of students offers arts in Tech and some calls that lack of focus from core mandate then there is something logically wrong in the person's assertion. And Yakagbomor like you will just and shout and support anything without thinking.
Africanus 6 years ago

Mr. BJ. It has got a lot of impact, because the university does not have unlimited resources to spread around. The university will be doing Ghana a great service by focusing the limited resources available on its core discipl ...
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Mr. BJ. It has got a lot of impact, because the university does not have unlimited resources to spread around. The university will be doing Ghana a great service by focusing the limited resources available on its core disciplines. We are in trouble if a science and technology institution can't fix its how computer. Do we always have to call on the Chinese to do things for us?
Abu 6 years ago

You are an idiot who failed to read before commenting,a breed of half educated fools in the systems and have a penchant of stealing state properties as well. What do you know about the foundation of KNUST?

You are an idiot who failed to read before commenting,a breed of half educated fools in the systems and have a penchant of stealing state properties as well. What do you know about the foundation of KNUST?
HONABE 6 years ago

The focus of KNUST is science & tech. so the man is on point. There are other varsity who are to take. let's take or leave it we are relegating science & technology to the background at our developmental peril.

The focus of KNUST is science & tech. so the man is on point. There are other varsity who are to take. let's take or leave it we are relegating science & technology to the background at our developmental peril.
Captein 6 years ago

The core focus of the University is vital, for example, MIT vs. Harvard Engineering and Law respectively.
But due to need some of the universities may introduce some Humanities courses but the later should not be a drain on ...
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The core focus of the University is vital, for example, MIT vs. Harvard Engineering and Law respectively.
But due to need some of the universities may introduce some Humanities courses but the later should not be a drain on the focus of the institution.
Otherwise a new university need to be built.
My question is with all the Royalties that the Ashanti monarch receives why has it not crossed his mind to build a first class university for Arts, Law, Letters and Humanities since the Ashanti is typically loud.
A clear case is themany people in movies at Kumawood could benefit from proper and quality training too which could be part of a Faculty.
Yaw mensah 6 years ago

It is because of such vision-less thinkers as this that is why we are where we are today

It is because of such vision-less thinkers as this that is why we are where we are today
BJ 6 years ago

Are such talkers or thinkers. Are rather vision-less talkers.

Are such talkers or thinkers. Are rather vision-less talkers.
APPIAH KUBI DESMOND 6 years ago

We need another university of science and technology. Tech is now arts university. Bad for Ghana

We need another university of science and technology. Tech is now arts university. Bad for Ghana
BJ 6 years ago

You cannot put any university in a box. Check the courses and enrollment at TEK and you will be surprised to know that less than 10% are for the arts. So wherein lies your assertion of having to a new university because Tech ...
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You cannot put any university in a box. Check the courses and enrollment at TEK and you will be surprised to know that less than 10% are for the arts. So wherein lies your assertion of having to a new university because Tech has become an arts university? Ignorant people just talk without basis or reasoning. Another example of vision-less talker.
Africanus 6 years ago

We do not need to check what somebody else is doing. The question should be about what is best for us. Do we as a country need more law and humanity graduates than scientist? Where is our priorities?

We do not need to check what somebody else is doing. The question should be about what is best for us. Do we as a country need more law and humanity graduates than scientist? Where is our priorities?
Joel T 6 years ago

Why is this even a story? So much ignorance in this post

Why is this even a story? So much ignorance in this post
BJ 6 years ago

Thank you Joel T

Thank you Joel T
Sowah Tetteh 6 years ago

Somebody tell whoever this guy is that fixing airconditioners, gadgets and mobile phones is not the mandate of University Graduates.

That is mainly for technical and vocational schools.

University Graduates are supposed ...
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Somebody tell whoever this guy is that fixing airconditioners, gadgets and mobile phones is not the mandate of University Graduates.

That is mainly for technical and vocational schools.

University Graduates are supposed to be the middle-managers in society!
BJ 6 years ago

Thank you, Soweee

Thank you, Soweee
Yakagbormor 6 years ago

Sowah, you are very slow. Very stupid of you to think that graduates should be managers. Shame. You probably expect your grandfather who attended a technical school to build the solar panels right?

Sowah, you are very slow. Very stupid of you to think that graduates should be managers. Shame. You probably expect your grandfather who attended a technical school to build the solar panels right?
BJ 6 years ago

You are yakagbomor indeed. As your name is so you are. For those of you who do not understand Ga, yakagbomor means a worthless or useless person. So this man insulting Sowah is actually a true yakagbomor. Otherwise why would ...
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You are yakagbomor indeed. As your name is so you are. For those of you who do not understand Ga, yakagbomor means a worthless or useless person. So this man insulting Sowah is actually a true yakagbomor. Otherwise why would he insult Sowah for stating the truth. Again the ignorance we talk about. When we talk about a manager most ignorant people only think office and suit. Engineering graduates are managers but the work in the field. They are managers of projects and systems. They are on the oil rigs, in the mines, at the dams managing electricity generation, in assembly plants managing and supervising production, on the highway and road sector managing and constructing roads and bridges. Can ignorant people like Yakagbomor type give us a break from the ignorance and arrogance? We have a nation to build and we need peace of mind to think through that.
Voice of Reason 6 years ago

Easy bj.All what the man was saying is our varsity graduates should be able to solve some of the emerging problems and find solutions to our simple probelms.
What's wrong with the sch engineering dept fixing the air condi ...
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Easy bj.All what the man was saying is our varsity graduates should be able to solve some of the emerging problems and find solutions to our simple probelms.
What's wrong with the sch engineering dept fixing the air conditioner ?I supposed it was above the students level.
Why do you take his statement so personal ?
Africanus 6 years ago

From where I am in Canada every university graduate is not a middle manager. Majority of university graduates start off at entry level positions where they first get their hands dirty, before they move up after they have gain ...
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From where I am in Canada every university graduate is not a middle manager. Majority of university graduates start off at entry level positions where they first get their hands dirty, before they move up after they have gained some valuable experience. At least I didn't start as a middle manager. What you are saying is the reason why Ghana has failed, because every university graduate thinks they are too big to be seen doing certain kind of job.

The IT guys at my work place are university graduate and they fix our computers when we have issues. We do not have to bring in vocational graduates to do that.
BJ 6 years ago

You got the argument wrong Mr Canada. It is only you people outside Ghana who always see and claim Ghana has failed. Enjoy your voluntary slavery while it lasts.

You got the argument wrong Mr Canada. It is only you people outside Ghana who always see and claim Ghana has failed. Enjoy your voluntary slavery while it lasts.
Africanus 6 years ago

Thank BJ for insulting me. But you could have responded to my post without the insult. We would have demonstrated that we are capable of debating with some level of civility. But I guess that is too much to expect from some p ...
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Thank BJ for insulting me. But you could have responded to my post without the insult. We would have demonstrated that we are capable of debating with some level of civility. But I guess that is too much to expect from some people.
HONABE 6 years ago

Thank you Africanus.

Thank you Africanus.
William. 6 years ago

God bless u.plesse speak n help gh

God bless u.plesse speak n help gh
BJ 6 years ago

Speaking helps no body. He should come to the mother land he claims has failed and lead the process of fixing it since he knows where the failure is.

Speaking helps no body. He should come to the mother land he claims has failed and lead the process of fixing it since he knows where the failure is.
ATAKORA 6 years ago

KNUST was set up to develop technocrats. Period. When cheap minded people called scholars begin to introduce the humanities to undermine the sciences, that is when the problem began. Just imagine the number of universities of ...
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KNUST was set up to develop technocrats. Period. When cheap minded people called scholars begin to introduce the humanities to undermine the sciences, that is when the problem began. Just imagine the number of universities offering marketing courses in Ghana. Too many marketing graduates more than enough for the few technocrats that KNUST had produced in the past who are supposed to do the manufacturing and the industries for the marketing students to market. Now KNUST is following the rest and very soon KNUST will be producing more lawyers and humanities graduates than engineers, scientists, doctors, mathematicians etc. They are easy and cheap to produce lol. Are we therefore surprised we are lacking far behind now in development? Left to me we remove this non-productive lecturers and replace them with good and innovative Ghanaians from outside. The whole country is upside down and lest I forget some of these non performing assets as crazy as the word graduate and instead of looking for something to do foolishly join politics: the likes of the empty headed Ablakwahj, sam George, Victoria hamma, Yammin etc and just insult Ghanaians. KNUST should go back to its mandates!!!!!!
Nii Okai 6 years ago

Are you sure the names you mentioned are the problem? If so l thought you could mention somebody like DIRTY Kufour who was educated in England and was a president that had all the HIPC authority of magnificient possibilities ...
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Are you sure the names you mentioned are the problem? If so l thought you could mention somebody like DIRTY Kufour who was educated in England and was a president that had all the HIPC authority of magnificient possibilities to ask help for our education sector that could have brought more of our students to study in the technical universities at least in China.

He, Kufour should have initiated something more technical in Ghana because here in overseas we see the out come of technical base economies like we see in CHINA or others in the Far East. They develop and we cherish so why cant KUFOUR follow up. At least Mahama did something about our technical universities that if Akuffo Addo would acknowledge the realities on the ground and would not be like Kufour l believe this law and humanities will vanish from the KNUST.

Basically you showed concern of paramount importance of the way law and humanities had been introduced into KNUST which never talk well of the expectation we all have for such a prestigious varsity. Your tribal mentality and one sided mind drove you into the mud
to attack only the NDC guys without mentioning any of the similar charactered guys in the NPP party you tribally support.

That is not the way to put your good mind through. I pinpointed my reasons why l see Kufour dirty because he failed to develop the university at stake into full grown technical base yet he talked bad about Nkrumah who built the KNUST of a visoionary mindset.
Aberinga Milton 6 years ago

This is indeed a pity. we lost actually lost a sense of vision and focus. Those running the universities are greedy looking for cheap sources of making money for themselves. it is cheaper to set up humanity programmes and qui ...
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This is indeed a pity. we lost actually lost a sense of vision and focus. Those running the universities are greedy looking for cheap sources of making money for themselves. it is cheaper to set up humanity programmes and quicker to run them for money. This is indeed a hopeless country.
Nii Okai 6 years ago

It is unfortunate that they say negative things about Nkrumah out of tribal and political party hatred, if not why should Kufour who has no class of Nkrumah level and leadership qualities could last week or so come out to la ...
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It is unfortunate that they say negative things about Nkrumah out of tribal and political party hatred, if not why should Kufour who has no class of Nkrumah level and leadership qualities could last week or so come out to lambast him, Nkrumah when he, Kufour sits down there and watching that Technological university becoming a law and arts classrooms, without a word to prove his awareness of the change of course of the KNUST. Shame unto KUFOUR AND OTHERS of similar minds with all the education they claimed they otained.

Are they not seeing what is happening in the fast developing nations like Taiwan, India, South Korea, China, Singapore, Malaysia etc that our nation had turn to some of them to borrow money for our developments? Are those nations' technical universities turned to law and arts studies? Greedy and bastard politicians of low class mentality yet they all rush to lead a nation with their political parties so that they spoil the nation for the future of our children.

There is no way God will leave any of you these selfish, bastard and greedy politicians free of punishment since you don't fear God for anything. No wonder that university could or had become law and arts institution because which of the visionless politicians of no good idea of nation's development are of technical background and awareness of real national development and progress that generate from home like that of the Chines that they could alloow themselves to be motivated by those qualities in order to help build a real university of technical base.

Do we in Ghana not see that all those
bloody awful politicians are village oriented educated buffoons whose village inclined life only opened their minds into knowing only law and arts courses which they use especially, LAW to bully their village people? It is sad that most of them who had foolishly come out to rule Ghana never have the intelligence required for a nation's development hence allow the KNUST to be what it is, without even being aware of the happenings there.

All they know is to fight over 4x4 SUV vehicles, a sign of further ''villageous'' mindset educated politicians. They only interested in loans, what a shame and not even interested in sending about 5,000 students yearly to CHINA on educational bilateral agreement to study AT THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITIES IN CHINA.

Shame unto the village politicians. Nkrumah wasn't angel, but could see far than all of you, therefore your negative comments about him would surely turn against you in all areas of your life in relation to our nation's developments.
AGBESI KWESI 6 years ago

In trying to justify why professors of Mechanical Engineering at the KNUST could not repair their vehicles when they break down, academicians of this university have come out to claim that these KNUST professors could not do ...
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In trying to justify why professors of Mechanical Engineering at the KNUST could not repair their vehicles when they break down, academicians of this university have come out to claim that these KNUST professors could not do so because they are not mechanics - even though these same people teach automobile engineering. This is unpardonable and these professors could be forgiven if they were physicists - remember most of the theories and formulae in mechanical engineering are produced by physicists. This is shocking because I don't know the kind of engineering training these KNUST professors are offering our youth and I can now see why products of our universities become useless when they don't get others to employ them. It will be very shocking to see a professor of mining engineering who cannot do blasting or use the theodolite to do surveying and so professors of KNUST have no excuse. It appears that education in Ghana is not meant to empower the youth for good deeds but just a means to seek white-colour jobs. Elsewhere it is not so. I once worked with a Ghanaian agriculturist, trained in Romania, as teachers in a secondary school. This man was teaching General Agric, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry whiles I handled Maths, Gen Science and Farm Mechanization. This man was so good at his area that I asked him why he is different from his counterparts trained in Ghana. It was after my inquiry the man told me that in Romania, to be an agriculturist, you need to be trained in both the theoretical and practical aspects of the programme. The practical aspects include plowing, shooting, swimming, how to set traps for different rodents that destroy crops, how to dismantle the engine of a tractor and fix it , basic animal surgery, how to construct silos and other storage facilities, etc. When he was posted to teach at the secondary school, he really inspired his students with his practical know-how. What even baffled me in that school was that the school was having survey instruments like the chain, theodolite, ranging poles, prismatic compasses, etc, yet the geography tutor, who was a graduate teacher from the University of Ghana could not use them - even though the geography syllabus at the SSCE level demanded that students should learn how to use them. I had to teach them the use of those instruments although I am not a university graduate. So you see how our intellectuals are misleading the youth.
New generation 6 years ago

All the big universities in Ghana offer cheap courses and neglect very important ones like such maths and science. About 90% of graduates from these major universities cannot even work simple equations. That's why our unive ...
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All the big universities in Ghana offer cheap courses and neglect very important ones like such maths and science. About 90% of graduates from these major universities cannot even work simple equations. That's why our universities are at the bottom of world universities ranking. It's a big scheme . Asian countries focus on science education that's they are developing and we are under developing
John Salifu 6 years ago

Interesting comments to read on a Monday. Some claiming ignorance, others myopic, another group referring to others as vision-less and the rest insults.
Let's reflect: Because the university was built as a science and techno ...
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Interesting comments to read on a Monday. Some claiming ignorance, others myopic, another group referring to others as vision-less and the rest insults.
Let's reflect: Because the university was built as a science and technology institution and also has a Faculty of Arts if the "sciences" are not thinking to go beyond their original vision in a modern day world the faculty of Arts should not think and remain because that is not the vision of the university. Science is not growing so arts don't grow and don't have a vision.

Let us do better with our thinking. Is it fair to say that because people are unable to think that is why everything is Nkrumah's vision. Can we grow past that vision?
Academicfreak 6 years ago

You are smart John. A very discerning thought.

You are smart John. A very discerning thought.

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