Nigerian Students in Ghana’s Accra Institute
The Executive Manager, Admissions and Operations, Accra Institute of Technology, Ghana, Mr. Boagye Dominic, has urged Nigerians desirous of university education to embrace open and distance learning to realize their dreams, and not wait endlessly for admission into conventional institutions.
Boagye, who spoke with journalists in Lagos after intimating higher education enthusiasts with the open and distance learning education option of AIT, added that 60 per cent of undergraduates in the Ghana-based institution are Nigerians.
Nigerian students in AIT, he said, are among the best in the institution.
“Nigerians are very brilliant people. In fact, in the last two or more convocations we have had, Nigerians emerged the best graduating students.
“We are aware of the huge number of Nigerians who desire university education are being hampered by low carrying capacity of the country’s university system.
“I implore them to embrace the open distance learning option to realize their dreams. AIT has a very functional and globally recognized ODL scheme that is capable of helping them and Africans in general to realize their university education ambition,” he said.
Boagye added that though the university, fashioned after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America has a robust conventional academic programmes for undergraduates, its ODL also provides students with unlimited opportunities to be the best they could be.
Asked how many Nigerians are undergoing undergraduate programmes in the university, Boagye said that though there were a lot of Nigerians in universities across Ghana, about 60 per cent of regular students in AIT are Nigerians.
“There are a lot of Nigerians in Ghana universities, but I don’t know how many they are; but in AIT, I can tell you that about 60 per cent of our students are Nigerians. You know, Nigerians are hard-working people who love education. They will go anywhere to get quality education and they are in AIT because they know that they are getting the best there,” he said.
He noted that because of the large number of Nigerians in the institution, the management had secured a working relationship with the Nigerian Embassy in Ghana.
Speaking on the university’s ODL option, which he said was technology-driven and online delivered, Boagye said that international linkage and accreditation it had with some foreign institutions and bodies had stood it in good stead for global credibility.
