KNUST SRC

The Student Representative Council at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is assuring students that the academic calendar would not be disrupted by the ongoing Ghana Association of University Administrators. It says the date of re-opening for continuing students remains on 17th August 2012, and the date for the admission of fresh students remain 21st September, 2012. The University Administrators are currently on strike demanding an increased market premium percentage when they are migrated onto the Single Spine Salary Structure. Last week, the Student Representative Council of the University of Ghana threatened a demonstration if the strike is not called off by close of this week. The strike has brought activities to a halt on the various university campuses, forcing authorities at the KNUST to recently postpone the 2011/2012 graduation ceremony for students who have completed their degree programmes. The processing of admission forms for incoming students and negotiations of salaries of fresh and continuing students have all stalled as a result of the strike. There have been growing concerns that the academic calendar may be disrupted by the continuing strike, with only one month to the scheduled resumption date. But in a letter to the student body, President of the KNUST Student Representative Council, Ebenezer Bonsra says no such thing would happen. Here are portions of the letter dated, read to you by Gabby