NUGS

The National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) has slagged off some public tertiary institutions for charging “unapproved” fees for the 2022/2023 academic year. According to the mother students’ body, the institutions have already started implementing new fees above the 15% threshold approved by Parliament under the Fees and Charges (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2022 (Act 1080). The Union named the University of Ghana (UG), the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), the University of Cape Coast (UCC), the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) and others, at a news conference, for “leading the charge of illegalities”. “The student front is unhappy about the levels of…