NAB orders Methodist University to suspend admissions

The National Accreditation Board (NAB) has ordered the Methodist University College
Ghana (MUCG) to suspend admissions until it adheres to the directive to withdraw 1,465 unqualified students it has admitted to pursue various degree courses.

The university had not complied with the directive issued by the end of April, as ordered bv the NAB in February, hence the sanction.

The Executive Secretary of the NAB, Mr Kwame Dattey, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic in Accra, said the university had, therefore, been ordered not to advertise new admissions until it complied with the directive.

The NAB had earlier this year stated that it would be monitoring the MUCG to ensure that the college respected its order, “otherwise we would have to apply the necessary sanctions”.

The order to the university to withdraw the students followed an audit inspection conducted by the NAB at the university, which found out that some of the students had been admitted based on only proficiency certificates in Computer Studies and other courses.

Others had not attained Grade C6 or better in one, two or all three of the core subjects of Mathematics, English and Integrated Science or Social Studies in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

In response to the order, the university made submissions to the NAB on the issue, prompting the Quality Assurance Committee of the board to schedule a meeting to determine the fate of the affected students.

At the end of that meeting, the board stood by its order to the university to withdraw the unqualified students by the end of April, this year.

According to the Executive Secretary of the NAB, the meeting enabled the board to make it clear to the university that it would not compromise on standards.

He said the only category of students the NAB was considering were Higher National Diploma (HND) holders from polytechnics who, he said, “are only a few”.

Source: Daily Graphic