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March 11, 2016
GIMPA: About 300 billion cedis needed
to achieve excellence
Accra, Nov. 18, GNA – The Ghana Institute of Management and
Public Administration needs about 300 billion cedis to
create an excellent best educational hub for the training of
society’s leaders in politics, public management and
business, Professor Stephen Adei, Rector of the Institute
said on Saturday.
He said the 300 billion cedi project would have facilities,
which include a world class faculty, cutting edge
technology, good technical and management systems, topmost
rated programmes and state of the art infrastructure.
Prof Adei was speaking at the third congregation and first
undergraduate graduation for the Greenhill College where
about 200 students graduated in various Masters’ and
Bachelors Degree programmes.
The Rector observed that if GETfund could assure the
institute of a modest inflow of just 10 billion cedis a year
as a public sector tertiary institution over the next ten
years, then GIMPA could commit 300 billion cedis of
financing the project with the internally generated
resources.
He explained that the 300-billion- cedi- project would come
in three parts and noted that 100 billion cedis would be
used to upgrade GIMPA into the finest public service school,
graduate training institution and best hospitality training
centre in Africa.
The second part, he said, would be the building of a
separate top rated undergraduate school at a cost of 150
billion cedis to house Greenhill College, while the third
component would be used for the 50 billion cedis distance
learning infrastructure, which would link all the regional
capitals with internet and video conferencing facilities.
“We want to create Ghana’s own version of Harvard Business
School, Kennedy School of Government and Malaysia’s INTAN; a
public service school, all rolled into one; plus the best
undergraduate school in Africa for public administration,
business, hospitality management and Information,
Communication and Technology (ICT),” Prof. Adei said.
He said: “We want GIMPA to be second to none. We cannot and
we must not take for granted or leave to chance the
selection of those who will lead Ghana’s business houses,
bureaucracy and politics ten to twenty years down the road.”
He announced that the Divestiture Implementation Committee
had allocated offices in Tamale, Kumasi and Takoradi to the
Institute which it intended to create distance learning
centres to the regions at a cost of 11.15 billion cedis and
called for help to enable the institute link all regional
capitals with a video conferencing facility which would
serve as an intranet for government.
On challenges, Prof. Adei mentioned that GIMPA had been
treated by some institutions such as the scholarship
secretariat and the National Commission for Tertiary
Education as a private institute, giving them less support
than expected.
He however, commended GETfund for helping the institute with
a syndicate room, saying, “The pursuit of excellence should
not be penalized in Ghana.”
Prof. Adei suggested universal education to secondary school
level to uplift the general capacity of citizenry, high
level of training with emphasis on science and technology
and visionary, capable and legitimate leaders as a remedy by
for the nation to achieve greatness.
“With little ingenuity, Ghanaians in the Diaspora can bring
billions of dollars a year into the country, more than we
could hope from donors for years; we earn billions from
tourism, education…the major constraint on our development
is not foreign exchange but vision, innovation and human
resource development. If we focus on our human resource we
will be touching on the corner stone of how nations
develop,” he held.
He challenged the graduands to think big, work hard and make
a difference for God, country and family and said, “Someone
has said that if you think knowledge is expensive, try
ignorance.”
Dr Emmanuel Boohene, Chairman of GIMPA Council, noted that
GIMPA was challenged with the need for more facilities like
classrooms, faculty rooms, laboratories, extended libraries,
among other constraints and urged well wishers to support
GIMPA’s projects.
Among the graduands were Madam Hawa Yakubu, former Minister
of Tourism and Bishop James Saah of Action Chapel.
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