The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called for more investment in infrastructure in public tertiary institutions to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
He said higher education was essential to unlocking the development of any society, and it was appropriate for the state to continue investing produce quality human resource base to accelerate the socio-economic development of the nation.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu made the call when he inspected on-going projects at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), designed to facilitate academic work.
The project which is being funded through internally-generated funds, as well as the World Bank, is in line with the University’s vision to improve the state of infrastructure.
They included a four-storey water and sanitation centre, five-storey social sciences building complex, post-graduate business school building, six-storey lecture halls and offices for the College of Art and Built Environment (CABE).
There are five-storey classrooms and offices for the School of Nursing, lecture theatre and classrooms for clinical students, a bridge and walkway, and unveiling of the Paa Joe statue, as well as a car park at the KNUST Hospital and senior members’ housing facility.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu, who is also the Chancellor of the University, encouraged contractors working on the projects to be committed to the work to ensure their successful completion.
He said the University which is the nation’s foremost science and technology academic institution, would not relent in its efforts to bring facilities there to international standard.
Professor Kwasi Obiri-Danso, Vice-Chancellor of KNUST, said authorities have been designing alternative strategies to address some of the infrastructural challenges facing the university.
The Asantehene later planted two symbolic trees at the university campus to support the efforts to promote and sustain ecological diversity on campus.
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Source: GNA
