About 80 per cent of Kumasi Polytechnic students have packed out of campus, less than 24-hours after authorities announced a closure. The rest of them have up to Saturday to leave following Wednesday’s action due to the protracted strike by polytechnic lecturers. Student Representative Council President, Prince Ohene Appiah, says students have no option but to go home to reduce spending on campus. Polytechnic teachers have been on strike for three weeks now over revised salaries due to their migration onto the Single Spine Salary policy. The situation had left students idling about at a time they should have been writing their end of semester exams. Mr. Appiah says government must intervene to get teachers back to work, and students recalled. Meanwhile, authorities are counting the cost of the industrial action by members of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana. Rector of Kumasi Polytechnic, Professor Nicholas Nsowah-Nuamah is worried that apart from the hardships it will bring to parents, the school will also lose financially. According to him, they have been forced to reschedule host of planned short-term courses for the general public.