Monday 18 August 2014

UTAG strike delaying re-opening not Ebola – NUGS



The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) says it is disappointed in the Ministry of Education’s claim that the Ebola disease is the reason for its directive asking tertiary institutions to delay re-opening. The Union is of the opinion that the Ministry cannot cite preparations for a possible Ebola outbreak as the reason for its directive since the international students are already on campus. The Education Ministry has directed all tertiary institutions to indefinitely suspend the re-opening of schools as steps are being taken by the Health Ministry and other stakeholders to prevent an outbreak of the Ebola disease in Ghana. The directive was given following the large number of international students who are pursuing various degree programmes in tertiary schools in Ghana. With the outbreak of the Ebola disease in some West African states, the government is instituting measures to protect Ghanaians from contracting the disease. Some of the measures include the three-month ban of international conferences in the country and the screening of travellers coming into Ghana.


Source: Citi

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