The Deputy Minister of Education, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, has tasked Governing Councils of Technical Universities in the country to stick to their core mandate of spearheading the development of technical education.
He explained that to attain that, there was the need for them to maintain the high intake of science and technology-based courses as their main focus and not the current situation whereby some had a huge intake of humanities than the science and technical courses.
Rev. Ntim Fordjour made the call on Monday when he launched a five-year strategic plan for the Accra Technical University.
The 66- paged Strategic Plan (2021-2025) is centred on eight pillars namely: quality and motivated human resource and effective governance, availability of approved infrastructure and systems, internalization and the visibility of the university, industry and community engagement.
The rest of the pillars are impact-oriented research and innovation, enhancing students’ experience, finance and staff welfare and support services.
It is expected that the full and strict compliance of the 5-year strategic plan would help push the fortunes and performance of Accra Technical University forward.
He then charged various stakeholders in the school to play their roles effectively to ensure that the implementation brought about massive improvement and transformation in the operations of the University and pay greater attention to science and technology which was their main focus.
The Vice-Chancellor for the Accra Technical University, Prof. Samuel Nii Odai, was upbeat that with the launching of the strategic plan, everything possible would be done to ensure that it attained higher laurels for the University and the country.
Source: GNA
