The Management of the University of Ghana (UG) has attributed the persistent delay in the release of students’ semester results to a high rate of staff attrition and a sluggish recruitment process.

According to the university, the challenge has been compounded by bureaucratic delays in securing government approval to recruit replacements for staff.

This explanation follows concerns raised by the Vice Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Davis Opoku, regarding complaints from students about the recurrent delays.

Responding to the issue, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, acknowledged the institution’s struggles with limited personnel.

“We try to do our best, but we also sometimes have constraints. We have constraints with faculty and staff issues. We get our staff being separated from the universities, but we don't have the liberties to replace them.

"And that's one appeal that I would like to make — that even if we have to discuss additional clearance for new staff, at least when people are separated, either through death, transfer, or retirement, we should be allowed to replace them, because that really affects us, and it has the potential to affect the quality of our output,” she said. 

Professor Amfo emphasised that the inability to promptly replace separated staff has implications for both academic delivery and the timely processing of students’ results.