The Nursing and Midwifery Training College (NMTC) at Sekondi in the Western Region is aspiring to become an autonomous University.

Established in 1954, the Nursing Training College has produced quality human resources for the country's health sector.

Consequently, the College now intends to step out of its current position, as a Nursing Training College and assume the position of a fully-fledged University capable of producing quality critical health sector workforce for the country.

The Principal of the College, Culbert Nuolabong, disclosed this on Tuesday, 4th March 2025, while briefing Western Regional Minister Joseph Nelson about activities at the College when the Minister was in the school to meet management as part of his working visit to the College.

He said, currently, the College has thirty-two (32) tutors and forty-five (45) non-teaching staff manning the school.

The College, he noted, currently offers Diploma and Register General Nursing, Diploma General Midwifery, among other certificates.

With over one thousand eight hundred students (1800) as the current student population, he said the College aspires to expand its infrastructure, academic horizon to accommodate more students and become a centre of excellence in churning out critical and quality healthcare workforce for the country.

In line with this development, the College, he highlighted has introduced four new programmes considered very dear to the heart of many in the health sector.

These are Critical Care Nursing, Pre-Operative Nursing, BSc Midwifery Degree, BSc Register General Nursing Degree amongst others.

Accreditation for all the aforementioned four new programmes has already been secured according to management of the College, and the programmes would soon take off in September this year.

The major problem, identified however, as an impediment in all these futuristic plans, the Principal observed, is lack of adequate lecture halls to take care of academic activities.

Aside from that, the lack of adequate accommodation, hostel facilities, poor internal road infrastructure, lack of fence wall, he underscored all impede progress and development.

Land encroachment, is also another challenge currently facing the College.

"Now that we want to be a university, we have to jealously guard against encroachment” the Principal of the College said.