Some years ago this would have been unthinkable. Girls living in Katanga and Unity (Conti) hall together with the boys. Well, it now seems inevitable. Months after the KNUST showed intentions of converting both halls to mixed halls, there have been protests from current students and alumni of both halls. But it seems that all the protest landed on deaf ears.
Speaking to Citi News the Public Relations Officer of KNUST, Kwame Yeboah said the decision would go a long way to reduce the number of female students in the school without accommodation.
“The next academic year, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology intends to get females into the two predominantly male halls and the minimum female to be in resident will be of 50 per cent,” he said.
He also noted even though management discussed with the student body, the students are trying to sabotage decision and impede on the growth of the university.
“We had the interaction with them, so I am wondering what the purpose of the demonstration is. The Student Representative Council was part of the decision. Let them bring whatever petition they have and do the demonstration; we have said the intention is to give more place to females because we have a lot of female studying Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,” he said.
Management of the University had begun assigning female students to the all-male halls. The school explains the conversion is to make room to contain the growing female population of the school.
So what do you think? Should the halls be made mixed halls to create more room for female students? Will the weekly “charge” ever be the same? Let us know in the comments.
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