Following petitions that may have led to the National Council for Tertiary Education directing that all public tertiary institutions maintain their fee charges for last academic year, the #FeesMustFall campaigners met with the Minister of State in Charge Tertiary Education Professor Kwasi Yankah about the fees.
Professor Yankah advised the petitioners to be consistent with their campaign and solidify their campaign base to ensure the success of the course. He said ‘’…personally I do not subscribe to using components or breakdown to charging fees and for that matter argument on that basis is difficult for me.’’
He further added that ‘’I think we should have an institutional debate on how to structure the system of charging fees.’’ He indicated that the NCTE is scheduled to meet managements of tertiary institutions first week of September.
Students in public tertiary institutions have been agitating over what they called high fees leading to petitions presented to the parliament of Ghana and other stakeholder bodies. The charge has been led by Abdallah Matin, Daniel Bakomorah and Isaac Ananpansah of University of Ghana together with student leaders in other public universities.
