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The programme tries to plan Bachelor of Technology scholars and educators to achieve lecturership status.
Dr. J. V. K. Afun, Rector of Ho Polytechnic, published the drive at the thirteenth Congregation of the Polytechnic on Saturday.
What added up to 1,079 people were honored Bachelor of Technology in Automobile Engineering and Bachelor of Technology in Agricultural Engineering and High National Diplomas.
Dr. Afun said the programmes might be run for two to three years at the Knust with instructing staff from that University and partaking Polytechnics.
The cooperating Polytechnics will expect full avocation regarding running the M-Tech programmes after the three years, Dr. Afun said.
"With these game plans the Polytechnics might have produce the center of the educating staff to run the Competency Based Technology (Cbt) Programmes in the Technical Universities," Dr. Afun illustrated.
Dr. Afun, who is the Chairman of Conference of Rector of Polytechnics (Corp), guaranteed that the polytechnics were decently positioned to expand their admission to retain a greater amount of the numerous qualified petitioners of the accomplices of Senior High School graduates.
He said the Polytechnics had, along these lines, chosen to postpone the opening date for new scholars for the 2013/14 scholastic year to the first week in October.
He said the Ho Polytechnic had chosen to manufacture a 5-storey classroom obstruct for the Faculty of Engineering from its inside created subsidizes to assume new programmes and expected extension.
The Polytechnic has likewise reached three private firms to give scholar lodgings on Build, Operate and Transfer foundation.
He said the Polytechnic was likewise setting up a five-storey, 20-units, three-room independent private piece for its staff with backing from the Ghana Education Trust Fund.
Dr. Afun said the Polytechnic required bigger address theatres and research centers outfitted with up to date offices to have the ability to prepare gifted labor to react to future challenges.
He noted that the Polytechnic took conveyance of a substantial dispatch of gear and apparatus for the Mechanical Engineering Department two days back.
"We are extremely thankful to government…" Dr Afun said.
He lauded government for enhancing the pay rates of staffs of polytechnics and for paying "their business premium esteem and single spine pay rates and arrears…the other issue left now is the postponement in installment of book and research stipends and finish of arrangements on the classes 2 and 3 recompenses".
Reacting, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, Minister for Education who conveyed President John Mahama's deliver to the gathering, clarified that administration was taking measure to secure an examination store with a perspective to enhancing research gifts, which he portrayed as insignificant at the minute.
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