The Minister of Education, Betty Mould Iddrisu has called on the private sector to join hands with government to provide the public universities in the country the needed push in order to make them relevant to the contemporary needs of students. Mrs Mould-Iddrisu said education has become expensive and it is important that all stakeholders put their hands on deck to support government in offering the best of education in the public universities. Mrs Mould made this call at the University of Ghana Alumni Fundraising Dinner Dance 2011, held at the plush La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra on Friday night. The minister, who represented President Mills as the Guest of Honour at the event, expressed the government’s appreciation at the support the Alumni Association has offered the government. Mrs Mould-Iddrisu, also an alumnus and a former lecturer at the University of Ghana said, “in order to assist the government of Ghana, which has its primary responsibility of ensuring that our public universities are not only adequately funded but are also adequately resourced to become part of the progressive course that we have in Ghana leading us to a middle income status, all key stakeholders must [contribute]. “Without sponsors such as yourselves, publicly funded education in this country will not progress. The fact of the matter is that education is a multifaceted stakeholder partnership. The partnership is such that it is dynamic and government on its own cannot fund it the way it should resource all the public institutions.” She said with the overwhelming number of students at the university today, it is quite an arduous task for government alone to fund the universities adequately.