The Director Geneal of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, Prof Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai has communicated the approved fees and charges for the 2025/2026 academic year to the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana.
This is contained in a letter sighted by 3news.com.
The letter dated January 12, was copied to the Minister of Education, Auditor General and Parliamentary Select Committee on Education.
“I write on behalf of the Hon. Minister of Education communicating the approved fees and charges to be charged by University of Ghana for the 2025/2026 academic year:
1. Academic Facility User fee to be pegged at the 2024/2025 rate.
2. Student Representative Council (SRC) dues: 50gh
3. SRC Development Levy: 150gh
4. Graduate Students (GRASAG) Development levy: 250gh
5. Telecel broadband Levy: 122gh across all levels for undergraduate students including Freshmen. This should be treated as optional and students must be properly educated of their right to opt out if they so decide,
6. 75th Anniversary levy: 100gh (this fee cannot be charged beyond this academic year),” Prof Abdulai wrote.
Prof Abdulai hoped “this resolves the issues surrounding the 2025/2026 fee schedule for your institution.”
On January 9, the Ministry of Education held a high-level stakeholder meeting in Accra to address the growing dispute over recent fee increases at the University of Ghana.
The meeting, which took place on Thursday, January 8, 2026, brought together key actors in the tertiary education sector, including the Chairperson of the University of Ghana Governing Council, Marietta Brew; Vice-Chancellor Prof. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo; Pro Vice-Chancellor Prof. Gordon Akanzuwine Awandare; leaders of the University of Ghana Students’ Representative Council (UGSRC) and the Graduate Students’ Association of Ghana (GRASSAG); as well as the Director-General of the GTEC, Prof. Abdulai Jinapor.
Some of the stakeholders having a discussion
It was chaired by the Deputy Minister for Education, Dr. Clement Abas Apaak, who has been mandated by the Minister of Education to lead engagements aimed at reaching a lawful and broadly acceptable resolution to the impasse.
The intervention comes after weeks of strong opposition from students and parents over reported academic fee increases of about 25 per cent, with some first-year students facing hikes of up to 34 per cent. Continuing students were also reported to be paying roughly 27 per cent more.
Explaining the Ministry’s involvement, Dr. Apaak said the scale of public concern left government with little choice but to act.
“The level of public outcry from students and parents was such that we couldn’t have ignored it,” he said in an interview on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News.
He stressed that any adjustment to fees must be consistent with existing legislation, particularly the Fees and Charges Act, noting that Parliament had not approved the increases.
“Given that we work with laws and there are processes and procedures, the best thing was to instruct GTEC to call the university to stay any increase,” Dr. Apaak added.
The stakeholders
