National development hinges on training critical Manpower, ANU President tells government

The administration of the All Nations University (ANU), a privately owned tertiary educational university in Koforidua in the Eastern Region, has asked urgently to the government to pivot more on the establishment of universities that give lessons to essential workforce for the development of the nation.

For that reason, it requested the government to put an end in giving approval for the creation of new traditional universities in Ghana. Rev. Dr Samuel Donkor, The President and Founder of the university,  who asked urgently stated that, the necessity of the country at this time was skilled and proficient persons who have completed course of study or training who were prepared to help the national development program. Members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education payed a visit to the institution and he was speaking.

The deputation which was ushered by the Chairman of the committee, Peter Nortsu-Kotoe, who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Akatsi North, was to discover the difficulties the institution were facing to help to tackle such difficulties.

Rev. Dr Donkor, who also proposed that not only state but private institutions should be managed by a judicial precedent and one program, specified that because state institutions were not restricted by the same rules as private institutions, they usually did whatever that appeared to please them. Concerning that, Rev. Dr Donkor specified that state institutions took in and registered everyone who place an application to them, making use their centres all over the country to expand their environment, and also long-distance education schemes to bring more earnings regardless for standard.

Concerning the financing, the president of the ANU proposed that the government should help the ANU financially  to aid it to move ahead with its aerospace science and other schemes, which he made mention were of enormous advantage to the nation and Africa at large. He stated that in spite of the fact that the ANU used up over $500,000 to give lessons to young Ghanaians in Space Sub-Systems Engineering, who created and built the Satellite (GhanaSat1), insufficient extra financing retard its advancement.

Rev. Dr Donkor stated that, the period of which Ghana was taking delight in the distinction, greatness and the international fame and status that came with the successful inauguration of GhanaSat1, “parliament and the government provided a stiff-arm to the institution and the young engineers who brought about such a feat,” which has been acknowledged worldwide by all  countries having vision and foresight.

He stated that, the ANU’s Space Systems Technology Laboratory (SSTL) also provided a National Auronatic and Space Administration (NASA) — Sponsored Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) observing instruments, which were used to gather meteorological data in Koforidua and that such equipment gave indispensable raw fact for research on weather patterns and surroundings or atmospheric conditions.

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