Tertiary education in Africa has retrogressed – Prof Aryeetey

Tertiary education in Africa has gone backwards – Prof Aryeetey

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Sat 18 February 2023 17:51

Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, has expressed concern over the declining standards of higher education on the African continent.

Prof. Aryeetey, who has been in the tertiary education space for more than four decades lamented the lack of efforts to address the challenges facing higher education in Africa.

“We have a long way to go because there have been many setbacks over the years in many universities in Africa,” said Prof. Aryeetey to the host. footprints at Read TVSamuel Attah-Mensah.

“There is a lack of willingness to face difficult challenges and this is found in universities across the African continent,” he said.

To face the challenge, Prof. Aryeetey currently runs the African Research Universities Alliance which is a network of 16 leading African universities that aims to use the resources of good universities to improve the struggling ones.

“The challenge for us is how to use it [improved universities] resources to improve others through collaboration,” he said.

Professor Aryeetey made a positive and courageous impact on the University of Ghana when he served as Vice Chancellor from 2010 to 2016.

Among the major highlights of his tenure was facilitating the construction of the University of Ghana Medical Center which he described as his proudest moment as Vice Chancellor.

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