The University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), despite being the best public funded university in Ghana, is encountering some infrastructure, financial and human resource challenges to match up with the growing demand for tertiary education.
These challenges according to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor J.S.Y Kuma, has compelled the university to limit the number of students admitted to pursue higher levels of education.
In his address at the 14th Matriculation of the university on Saturday, he disclosed that the university is taking proactive measures to address these challenges.
“UMaT is in discussion with government through the Lands Ministry to find a solution to the infrastructural challenges of the university.
“We are making the necessary preparations to take on more students who would seek admission into our university as a result of the Free SHS policy of the government in the coming years”, he added.
The UMaT received in total 2,292 applications for undergraduate admissions into various programmes this year, however, it was only able to admit 597, representing 26 percent of total applicants this year.
Prof. J.S.Y Kuma the university has been rigorously pursuing its gender mainstreaming policy to ensure at least a 50 percent women representation in engineering disciplines in the possible future.
"We are working seriously to encourage more women to study engineering through several initiatives. This we have done over the years through our gender mainstreaming policy.
“We are not going to rest until our vision of increasing the percentage of women studying engineering in our university to 50 percent is achieved”, he said.
Postgraduate Admissions
For the 2018 postgraduate admission year, a total of 95 students were granted admission by the university to pursue various programmes that leads to the award of MSc, MPhil and PhD degrees.
This brings the total postgraduate student population to 242, which is 10 percent of the current total student enrolment of 2,485.
On this background, the Vice Chancellor noted that the university is working hard at increasing the postgraduate enrolment into the university to 30 percent, one he expressed has been the goal of the university over the past years.
In order to meet this ambitious target, the university according to Prof. J.S.Y Kuma “has introduced programmes in MSc in Engineering Management, and Master of Business and Technology Management”
“These initiatives we believe would encourage practicing engineers, managers and professionals to come and pursue these programmes without leaving their jobs through the modular programme”, he added.
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