GIJ re-introduces entrance examinations

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March 5, 2008

THE Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) will, from next academic year, re-introduce the entrance examination as part of the requirements for admission to the institute.
This means that before applicants gained admission to the institute, they would be required to pass an entrance examination and an interview.
The acting Rector of GIJ, Mr Kweku Rockson, who disclosed this in an interview with the Daily Graphic, said the entrance examination was to ensure that the institute got good materials for its programmes.
The institute cancelled the entrance examination in 2001 following complaints by some applicants that the selection process was not fair.
The institute has for about four years now stopped using entrance examinations as part of the requirements for admitting students to its programmes.
Mr Rockson said since the GIJ was put under the Ministry of Education Science and Sports (MOESS), there had been significant improvement in the running of the institute.
He said the conditions of service had been improved and so the institute now recruited full-time lecturers instead of depending on part-time lecturers who were hired as a result of poor conditions of service.
“Improved conditions of service had led to improved staffing conditions,” he said, adding that the institute was using the bulk of the funds to continue the development of a complex at Okponglo, comprising lecture theatres and an administration block.
Mr Rockson indicated that very soon, the institute would secure very good books for communications studies.
He said the institute had received assistance from MOESS and the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).