{"id":10747,"date":"2025-04-28T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=10747"},"modified":"2025-04-28T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T16:19:01","slug":"vice-chancellors-ghana-demands-review-of-retirement-age-for-university-lecturers-from-60-to-70-yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=10747","title":{"rendered":"Vice Chancellors Ghana demands review of retirement age for university lecturers from 60 to 70-yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice Chancellors Ghana has called on the government to review and extend the retirement age for university lecturers from 60 to 70 years, citing the need to retain experienced academics and strengthen the country\u2019s higher education system.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a forum, the Executive Secretary, Dr Sena\u00a0Kpeglo Freiku, argued that in today\u2019s global knowledge economy, experienced university lecturers remain invaluable assets whose contribution often matures with age.<\/p>\n

According to him, the proposal seeks to address a widening gap in faculty numbers and ensure that academic excellence is maintained across the country\u2019s universities.<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversities form part of a global knowledge economy,\u201d Dr Freiku said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe university professor is more like the older, the better. What we are proposing is that in order to ensure the long-term capacity of universities and also to promote social autonomy, if the committee could consider maybe extending the retirement age for the academics, not the professionals, to 65 years, with a possibility of about 70,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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He further emphasised that such a reform would address the current brain drain in academia, where highly skilled lecturers are forced into early retirement despite their continued intellectual capacity and willingness to contribute.<\/p>\n

Currently, university lecturers in Ghana are mandated to retire at 60, a policy that has been widely criticised by academia as outdated and counterproductive in a sector that thrives on institutional memory, mentorship, and intellectual depth.<\/p>\n

Dr Freiku clarified that the proposed extension would apply strictly to academic staff, distinguishing them from administrative or professional employees, whose roles may demand different considerations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice Chancellors Ghana has called on the government to review and extend the retirement age for university lecturers from 60 to 70 years, citing the need to retain experienced academics and strengthen the country\u2019s higher education system. Speaking at a forum, the Executive Secretary, Dr Sena\u00a0Kpeglo Freiku, argued that in today\u2019s global knowledge economy, experienced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,41],"tags":[3453,3454],"class_list":["post-10747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-general-news","tag-sena-kpeglo-freiku","tag-vice-chancellors-ghana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10750,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747\/revisions\/10750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}