Speaking at the 2019 Danquah Institute Leadership lecture under the theme: “World Class Education and Imperative for the Next Generation of Leaders,” the minister explained that the move was to conform with the global standard of university education.
Gov't to reduce duration of university education to 3 years
The Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has given hint that the duration of university education will be reduced from four to three years.
Matthew Opoku Prempeh,
He said: "Everywhere in the world, undergrad is three years not four years, why should we spend four years doing undergrad? We will sit down with the university lecturers and start challenging them, because Ghana is not an island."
He added: "...We have learnt [from] our history, they took two years in doing a degree in the University of Ghana. KNUST took three years because in the University of Ghana, they had a first university exam that was non-scoring and still came out with PhDs."
Currently, Ghana has three years of junior high school education, three years of senior high school education and four years of university education leading to the award of a degree certificate.
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