The Principal of the Methodist University College, Ghana (MUCG), Very Reverend Prof. Samuel Kwesi Adjepong has called on Government to accord the necessary support and encouragement to private tertiary institutions to create additional access to higher education. “The private university colleges have been literally crying out to the government to set up a fund for research and staff development that can access competitively by them but so far there has been no response,” he explained. He said this at the ninth congregation of MUCG in Accra at the weekend where 1,075 students graduated. Very Rev. Prof. Adjepong stated that, the government needed to assess carefully the policies that would strengthen the entire production capacity of higher education sector and to implement those policies even when it might mean providing financial subsidies to private universities. He said the university over the years, had provided office accommodation for staff, lecture halls, and had recorded considerable activity for the library, adding that a new satellite campus would soon be establish in Takoradi. He said the youth, formed an integral part of the country, therefore the church and university should do its best to train them to acquire the needed skills and knowledge to develop the country. Very Rev. Prof. Adjepong urged the graduands to carry the good image of the school and make positive change by serving the country with humility and integrity. In a speech read on his behalf, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ernest Aryeetey, encouraged MUCG to sustain its desire to produce quality human resource for national development. He said without quality human resource, no nation could achieve a sustainable national development. He said global socio-economic challenges were dynamic; therefore tertiary institutions were expected to introduce new programmes to help address the situation. “As the nation moves on with its development agenda, we in academia must accept the challenges to be part of the process by conducting relevant research that would have positive impact on corporate Ghana,” he explained. Prof. Aryeetey urged the graduands to be part of the alumni association to help develop the university.