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Lydia Alhassan reiterates commitment to help solve UG’s accommodation problems

27th October 2019

Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency, Hon. Lydia Seyram Alhassan has reiterated her commitment to work assiduously with the University of Ghana management to mitigate the accommodation challenges bedeviling the institution.

Mad. Alhassan stressed that she will not relent in her efforts to help address the problem.

She was also optimistic that the accommodation projects planned to be rolled out will see fruition in the shortest possible time.

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We are currently in talks with the university authorities to roll out plans to build hostel facilities to relieve our students of the stress of having to leave lectures to search for accommodation. The University has indicated its readiness to support this project. We hope to deliver this vision in the short and medium term. We shall continue to collaborate with management, students and other stakeholders to deliver this objective.

The lawmaker was speaking at a program dubbed “An Evening with the Vice-Chancellor” which was organized by the University of Ghana branch of the Doctoral Researchers Association of Ghana (DRAG) in collaboration with the Pan African Doctoral Academy (PADA) at the Great Hall on Tuesday, October 23, 2019.

The event hosted the University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, Ph.D. students of the University of Ghana, some faculty members and invited guest speakers.

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About UG’s accommodation issues

The University of Ghana has over the years struggled to accommodate most of its fresh students.

Although the matter is a perennial problem, this year’s challenge, sparked a lot of conversations.

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For the 201/2020 academic year, nearly 12,000 newly admitted students of the University of Ghana were battling for only 1,907 available accommodation spaces in the school.

The inadequate residential facilities in the school left more than 9,000 newly admitted students, many of whom are coming from outside Accra, stranded.

What is UG management doing?

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana (UG), Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, at the 2019 Matriculation ceremony, indicated that the institution’s Land Lease Committee was negotiating with private bodies to expand housing options.

He also added that the Commonwealth Hall of the University will soon have a 4,000-bed state-of-the-art annexes.

He noted that the management of the University was about entering into an agreement with the alumni association of the Commonwealth Hall to build annexes to accommodate more students.