The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has approved over 1,000 programmes to be offered by public universities nationwide.

These programmes are aimed at enhancing the academic calendars of tertiary institutions.

According to Dr Ahmed Abdulai Jinapor, the Director-General of GTEC, a new regulatory body will be instituted to oversee and monitor the implementation of these programmes by public universities.

He added that these courses will have relevance to the developmental aspirations of the country.

“We want institutions to stay in their niche, institutions should stay in their mandate areas. Institutions cannot be doing anything and everything.

"The system whereby you have technology institutions that are mandated to do technology-oriented programmes, but today doing Akan, Twi, Dagbani, I think should be something of the past.

“Hence, this body will ensure that you fall within your niche, the programmes must have relevance to the developmental aspirations of this country.

"And such programmes should not feed into saturated markets of this economy,” the Director-General of GTEC said.