The University Relations Officer of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr Daniel Norris Bekoe says management is ready to accept any decision brought out by the committee tasked by the Chancellor of the University, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to investigate the issue of conversion of male halls to unisex ones.
According to him, the issue of the conversion of halls is being sorted out and that management of the University is waiting for the final outcome of Otumfuo's committee.
The Chancellor of KNUST, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II set up a committee to investigate the disturbances which, among others, were thought to have been precipitated by the conversion of the halls.
Speaking to Starr FM, today, October 8 2019, Mr Bekoe stated that management will not resist any decision the committee comes up with concerning the conversion of halls.
''The issue is being sorted out and I can tell you for sure that Otumfour Osei Tutu stepped in and set up a committee to investigate the whole matter and the university is anxiously waiting for the final outcome of committee. Management has issued their preparedness of indicating they are willing to embrace whatever decision the committee comes out with''.
The Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST in January 2018 announced their decision to change all single-sex halls in the University to unisex.
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The Management's decision of halls conversion was geared towards increasing the number of female enrolments in the university under the Science Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) policy.
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Since then alumni and residents of the all-male halls, University Hall and their rivals Unity Hall have resisted the move.
Meanwhile, the Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh has stated categorically that government is against attempts by the Council of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to convert some mall halls into mixed ones.
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