The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Ghana (UG), Accra City Campus last Friday launched a project dubbed “Zero Student Deferment 2010” which is meant to reduce the number of students who defer their courses each year due to financial difficulties. Speaking at the launch, the Acting President of the SRC, Mr Festus Owusu explained that the project, which is the initiative of his outfit, is to raise funds to support needy students, who have over the years been neglected and had to resort to deferring their courses due to their inability to pay their fees. According to him, available statistics show that five percent out of a total student population of four thousand eight hundred from the City Campus defer or drop their courses each year due to financial difficulties stressing that as a country hoping to achieve a middle income status, education should not be the reserve of a section of it’s society while neglecting others from equally benefiting from such privilege in order to propel it economically and socially. The SRC President explained that, the City Campus, unlike the Legon Campus did not access Government’s subventions although it is an extension of the University of Ghana, had become a somewhat an “albatross hanging on their necks “ as students are having to pay their fees in full making it a fee paying campus of the UG. Mr Owusu added that the essence of the project was to ensure that the number of students who defer their courses each year was reduced, students do not have to resort to protests as a means of resolving the issue of school fees and also his outfit’s objective of seeking among other things the welfare of students of the City Campus. He said a Fund Management Board had been inaugurated to oversee the disbursement of the fund and appealed to corporate bodies, individuals and other institutions to contribute towards the project saying his outfit would send a team of volunteers out to distribute letters. The University of Ghana, Accra City Campus was formally inaugurated in 2004, principally, to provide university education to mature persons who are normally qualified for university education but who for various reasons, prefer not to study as full-time external students. However, during the 2004/2005 academic year, the Accra City Campus began running morning programmes to admit applicants with Senior High School certificates to also benefit from university education.