THE Accra Institute of Technology has introduced eleven post graduate and under-graduate degree programmes in Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
The programmes include computer science, information technology, business administration, engineering, education and management.
The initiative forms part of a collaboration with the Open University of Malaysia (OUM).
The President of OUM, Prof Anuwar Ali, made this known when he led an eight-member delegation of the AIT and OUM to pay a courtesy call on the Minister of Communications, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, in Accra on Thursday.
He said the programmes would help address the current crisis of shortage of lecturers with the requisite post-graduate degrees within public and private universities in the West African sub-region.
Prof. Ali said the OUM was the way to go if Ghana was to improve university enrolment and broaden access to tertiary education through the exploitation of the emerging educational delivery technologies and learning resources.
He stated that the open university would provide opportunities for Ghanaians and other West African countries to have access to university education and also study on-line.
Mr Iddrisu stated that the relationship between Ghana and Malaysia had existed since independence, saying that “this makes the collaboration a laudable one”.
He said the ministry was facilitating the development of broadband connectivity to support the private sector and other individuals to motivate learning on-line.
The minister said it was the agenda of the government to develop the capacity of the citizenry in the area of ICT and commended the efforts of the two institutions.
He appealed to the AIT and OUM to make the cost of studies affordable in order to make it accessible to all Ghanaians.
Mr Iddrisu urged civil servants and the public to take advantage of the opportunity to enhance their knowledge in ICT, adding that the world was becoming a global village and that everybody needed to have some knowledge in ICT.
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