Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Graduating Students (regular) of
University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) are considering legal action
against the university over what they claim to be graduation anomalies at the
newly-established institution.
A statement issued by the students titled
‘Graduation anomalies’ was signed by representatives from the various
departments and colleges from the university, who claimed some of the courses
offered at the university in Ho in the Volta Region did not have accreditation.
The students, who signed the statement, included
Abigail Yanda Yempew (School of Medicine), Theophilus Kusi Nuamah (School of
Nursing and Midwifery), Paul Nyarko (School of Allied Health Sciences), Sophia
Stevens (School of Public Health Rep).
The rest are Mark Hammond (Group
Spokesperson), Sabastian Sydney Asare (Group Convener), Felix Dimado (Group
Legal Rep) and Gabriel Agbanyo (Asst. Group Legal Rep).
The students said, “In October 2012, the
university admitted its first batch of students to pursue various programmes
leading to the award of degrees in various health and allied science fields.
“We were made to believe that since our
institution is new, we shouldn't expect so much but compromise when we can as
we support in developing the university into a prestigious one which will be
recognised worldwide.”
The students said “on several occasions, we
petitioned management but we were told things were in the pipeline and will be
resolved soon. We took these words as gospel truths, hoping that these
challenges will be tackled with all the urgency they deserved but unfortunately
it wasn’t so!”
They said “we are set to graduate in four
days, yet we have not even seen the results and grades we are graduating with.”
“The previous results which were made
available were full of mistakes. We
petitioned the authorities but nothing has been done as we speak.”
Additionally, the students said “a graduating
list was released which did not capture the names of some of our colleagues
though they had sat for and passed all their papers.”
“Further probe revealed that some courses
have not been accredited, hence such students cannot graduate.
“Similarly, the negligence and failure on
the part of management to incorporate hard-earned results of some students has
resulted in disqualifying such students from making the graduating list.
“Why should a university of such high
standard do such to students who have put so much trust in her only to compel
us to take blame for the negligence of management?” they queried.
The students further said that “the
license to practice as health professionals vary but one common thing is that
your institution must be recognised so that the regulating bodies can allow
such students to sit for the licensing exams.
“As we speak now, some programmes do not
have accreditation and/or recognition from such regulatory bodies, hence the
fate of the students have been left hanging. Management has turned a deaf ear
to our many petitions to know the steps being taken to get these issues
resolved.”
They cautioned the university not to go
ahead with the graduation programme since “the students they intend to present
as graduands have serious issues ranging from anomalies in results to
accreditation.
“We will be forced to take legal action
against the university if our concerns and petitions are not addressed by close
of work today.
“The University of Health and Allied
Sciences, Ho is a state asset, set up by an act of parliament, hence its
students who are the major stakeholders must not be relegated to the background
with such disregard to our ambitions of becoming excellent health
professionals,” they concluded.
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