The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) has suspended all accreditation and other requests from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) over failure to comply with its directive on the tenure of Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong.
In a letter in possession of Accra News Online dated September 22, 2025, GTEC explained that the decision was necessary as a result of a court order restraining the university’s Governing Council from taking any decision on the Vice Chancellor’s appointment since October 8, 2024.
According to GTEC in spite of the injunction, GTEC Prof. Boampong has remained in office beyond his compulsory retirement age.
The Commission revealed in the letter the requests from the University it will no longer process are in relation to the following:
Accreditation
Salaries (government subventions)
GETFund support
Book and Research Allowance
Post-retirement contracts
Financial clearance for recruitment
Any other related matters
The directive, signed by Prof. Augustine Ocloo, Acting Deputy Director-General of GTEC, stressed that the suspension takes immediate effect and will remain until there is “full compliance with the directive and evidence of compliance is furnished to the Commission.”
GTEC has consequently taken UCC from list of Public Universities on its website.
GTEC last week directed Prof. Boampong to vacate office citing his attainment of the mandatory retirement age of 60.
“The Office of the Vice-Chancellor, being an office established under Section 7(1) of the University of Cape Coast Act, 1992 (PNDCL 278), is a public office under the meaning and intendment of Article 199(1). Hence, anyone acting in the office of the Vice-Chancellor is presumptively mandated to proceed on compulsory retirement upon attaining 60 years.”
GTEC also referenced the University of Cape Coast Statutes (2016), which provide that the Vice-Chancellor’s tenure is four years, renewable for another three years, provided the statutory retirement age is not exceeded.
In the interim, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor Denis Worlanyo Aheto, was directed by GTEC to act as Vice-Chancellor.
