The Tertiary Education Workers Union (TEWU-GH) branch of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) is calling for an immediate suspension of all ongoing processes to appoint a successor to the university’s registrar who goes on retirement in October citing administrative lapses.
This demand comes in response to an advertisement by the KNUST Council announcing the vacancy of the registrar position effective August 1, 2025, three clear months before the incumbent registrar is due to leave office.
Addressing a news conference on the KNUST Campus, KNUST TEWU-GH Chairman Charles Arthur explained, “The KNUST Council has announced that the position of the Registrar of the University shall become vacant on 1st August 2025. Meanwhile, the Council through the University Recorder, No. 550 April-June 2024 Vol. 59 No. 6, page 13, indicated that the current Registrar of the University will retire from office on 31st October 2025”
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He warned that if the anomaly is not corrected by the Education Ministry and the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, (GTEC) the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology will be faced with the administrative error of having two registrars at post.
“The Union wants to state that, per this Advert and Recorder published, KNUST is going to have two Registrars from 1st August to 31st October 2025.
“The Union further wants to state that, this is negligence on the part of the University Governing Council which has never occurred in the history of the University before,” Arthur argued.
Mr. Arthur pointed out that the union is expecting the Education Ministry and GTEC to constitute a team to investigate and bring transparency and fairness to the process while it suspends any further action of the University Council regarding the search for a new registrar.
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“We therefore call on the Minister of Education and the Director General of GTEC to immediately intervene by suspending all processes leading to the appointment of the Registrar and set up a committee to investigate why such incidence has occurred.”
“The Union hopes that, the intervention of the Minister of Education and Director General of GTEC will bring transparency and fairness in the appointment of Registrar of KNUST,” he emphasized.
He indicated that the union was forced to come public with its calls accusing the council and its chair of building walls around them making it difficult for ordinary members of the university to approach them with their concerns.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/Ivan Heathcote – Fumador
