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Outgoing Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana has condemned the desire for academic titles as a measure of a person’s social status.
Professor Ernest Aryeetey observed on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Tuesday, that in Ghana today “people will do anything to get a title.”
He said titles describe and reveal a person’s vocation or profession. This is why a title such as General suggest the person is in the army.
He questioned why a civil servant should be keen to be addressed as a professor when he is not teaching or a
“I am Professor Aryeety because I teach in a university if I was not teaching in a university I would not be qualified to be called Professor Aryeetey,” the Vice-Chancellor explained.
According to him, the society’s respect for titles and status is fueling a craze for academic qualifications.
He observed that Ph.D. candidates are failing to graduate because the motive for the qualification is questionable.
“We are so engrossed in a discussion of who is bigger than who, who has a bigger status than whom”, Prof. Aryeetey condemned.
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