Concerns over high staff attrition at private universities

The vice-president of the Catholic University of Ghana (CUG), Professor Daniels Obeng-Ofori, has raised concerns that private universities in Ghana are experiencing high attrition rates, reports Ghana Business News.

He expressed worry about the rate at which senior lecturers, especially those with PhDs, were leaving and “abandoning” private universities for public institutions, due to poor conditions of service.

In an interview with the Ghana News Agency at the university’s main campus at Fiapre in the Sunyani Municipality, Obeng-Ofori said many of the private universities were struggling to improve the conditions of service of lecturers to maintain them. “The CUG is trying to increase the basic salary by 20% and also enhance book and research allowances for lecturers to stay,” he stated, saying: “Since we get money only from students, we need to get more students so that we can get more resources to improve their conditions of service for them to stay.”
Full report on the Ghana Business News site