The paper carries on its centre spread “Vice Chancellor laments government’s inertia”. According to the story, the vice- chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ivan Addae Mensah, has revealed that lack of co-ordination between the government and the university is the cause of the country’s manpower needs. The government, has for instance, not communicated to the University its manpower requirements for the next few years, Prof Addae-Mensah, said on GTV’s ‘Talking Point’ programme. “The National Development Planning Commission has not been able to produce for the University the number of economists, administrators etc, that the country would need for the Vision 2020,” the Dispatch quotes Prof Addae-Mensah as saying. The paper continues that Prof. Alex Kwapong, first Ghanaian vice-chancellor of the University, who was also on the programme, said the university has been able to remain focused on its mission of ensuring that its products attain academic excellence. Prof Kwapong said the quality of the products of the university is comparable to the best known universities in the world and attributed this to the collaboration in research and other fields between it and others abroad.
