Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) would from this academic year start a master's programme in disability, rehabilitation and development. Dr Anthony Kwaku Adusei, Manager in-charge of the University's Disability Project, said they have also planned to run an under graduate for the same programme. He made the announcement at the maiden national disability conference currently underway in Kumasi. Both programmes, he said, were meant to build competencies for middle-level senior management professionals to address complex disability issues using modern forms of stakeholder engagement and analysis approaches. He said in order to establish the needed core faculty to teach in these fields, the project was in contact with experts in various disability areas. Dr Adusei said plans were far advanced to construct a simple structure consisting three 40-seater classrooms for the under-graduate and post graduate programmes as well as offices for lecturers, library, demonstration room, conference room and disability network and data-based centre. Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa, the Vice-Chancellor, said about 5.5 per cent of Ghanaians were suffering from various forms of disability, ranging from vision, hearing and speech to movement. Source: GNA