IPS Alumni Intervenes

By Stephen Kwabena Effah
Saturday, 07 October 2006 (Page 19)

The Alumni of the Institute of Professional Studies (IPS) has intervened in the impasse between the authorities and the student body in a bid to resolve the issue and get the students back to campus by next week.

In a meeting with the students’ body on Wednesday, the alumni convinced them to call off their planned demonstration yesterday.

The National Union Secretary of the IPS, Sampson Quansah, told the Times in an interview yesterday, that the alumni had assured the students that it would meet the school authorities to discuss how best to solve the problem to enable the students to return to campus by next week.

"The students cannot afford being out of campus since that would affect them greatly," he said, adding that most of the students are expected to commence their examination next month."

For his part, the president of the Chartered Accountant, Students Society, Dominic Naab, said that their decision to call off the strike was in part due to the absence of the Ministers for Education, Science and Sports at post yesterday.

He said that they are waiting for the outcome of the alumni’s effort to determine the line of action to be taken next.

An alumnus of IPS, Francis Dadzie, said they would today, meet the interim Students Representative Council set up by the school authorities.

He said that the alumni are very much concerned about the situation at the Institute, saying that "as an alumni, whatever happens has an impact on us".