Bishops in Ghana Petition President for Catholic University Charter

He also expressed the hope that the Bishops’ “application would be considered by next year to enable the CUCG, currently affiliated to the University of Ghana, Legon and the University of Cape Coast, to be autonomous in the awarding of degrees to its students.”

By receiving a Presidential Charter, CUCG will be freed from the affiliations it has and attain the capacity to award its own degrees, which are currently being offered by the Universities of Ghana and Cape Coast. 

This is not the first appeal by the Bishops’ to grant the University College a Charter.

In June 2018 when President Akufo-Addo attended the 20^th celebration of the Holy Spirit Catholic Church at Nkwabeng, Bishop Mathew Kwasi Gyamfi of Sunyani, where the University is located, appealed to the President of Ghana to grant the Presidential Charter.

Archbishop Naameh described CUCG as an institution with a “high calibre of academic staff” which had now come of age and matured enough to manage its own academic affairs.

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Granting the institution a Presidential Charter would enable it to move into the next level to translate the vision and mission of its establishment to serving the nation better, the Prelate emphasized.

Leaders of other religious denominations have made similar applications that seem to be characterized with delays.

In October 2017, the President of the Presbyterian University College in Ghana, Prof. Emmanuel Adow Obeng petitioned that the Government grants Private Universities “that have gone through successful mentorship for ten to fifteen years Automatic Charter Status to help reduce the fincial burden on Private Universities”