Legon to receive applications on-line

19-01-09
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THE University of Ghana, Legon will from this year start receiving applications for admission on-line, the Pro-Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Kwesi Yankah, has announced.
“We are going electronic and hi-tech. The on-line process is faster and neater than the manual process,” he told the Daily Graphic at the weekend.
According to him, the manual process of application had been fraught with a lot of problems, and said forms presented by applicants for instance had had carious inaccuracies.
Under the on-line application process, he said, applicants were to obtain a scratch card with banker’s draft at designated places such as the university’s cash office, Information Centre and the Institute of Adult Education offices nationwide, and follow the instructions on them.
The university will hold a three-day forum next week to educate prospective applicants on the admission process at the university.
The objective of the forum, which would be held from Tuesday, January 20, 2009 to Thursday, January 22, 2009, is to clear all the doubts and misconceptions about admissions to the university.
Professor Yankah noted that the orientation programme, which started in 2007, was to educate members of the public on all they needed to know about the admission process.
In spite of the information provided in the admission brochure, he said applicants over the years found it difficult to understand the process.
In 2007, he said, the university held an outreach programme through which it sent resource persons to the various regions to educate prospective applicants on the admission process.
At such programmes, some of which were held on certain radio stations, Professor Yankah said parents, guardians and students were given the opportunity to ask all the questions they had on the admission process.
The university, he explained, then decided to hold the programme at its campus for some days to cut down cost, saying that general talks on admissions were given during the programme after which people were allowed to ask questions.
The admissions forum would provide comprehensive explanation on choice of subjects, prerequisites for courses, calculation of aggregates and all relevant information about admission to the university.