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The University of Ghana (UG) has announced plans to run a shift education system for the academic year 2021/2022.
The university says the large number of students expected to be admitted this year in conjunction with COVID-19 security protocols has taken this into account.
Speaking to Citi News, the university’s Dean of Student Affairs, Godfred A. Bokpin, says this will create an enabling academic environment that will comply with the COVID-19 Protocols.
“We have lost practically a semester because the academic calendar usually starts from August to the end of July, but now the school will reopen in January. So that requires some kind of alteration to the calendar and due to Covid-19, it might not be wise to have all students on campus within the same period. ”
“The arrangement for the undergraduate program is that the seniors and the freshmen will enter first and when they finish, the sophomores and juniors will come later,” he said.
He added that they made these arrangements so that most students can benefit from the school’s digital infrastructure and facilitate on-campus density.
Professor Bokpin also stated that the school has made the decision not to increase the fees for academic users.
“The university had already communicated to students and the university community in general that we are maintaining the fees we charge for the 2019/2020 academic year,” he added.
Tertiary institutions will reopen in January 2021
President Nana Akufo-Addo in a national address on Sunday, October 18, 2020, said that the academic year will continue for new and continuing students in January 2021.
“SHS 2 and JHS 2 students are back in school, as are some college and university students. In fact, the academic year for new and continuing college students will begin in January 2021 ”.
Schools They have been closed since March 15, 2020, as part of the government’s measures to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus.
– citinewsroom
