Government has been cautioned against taking the internally generated funds (IGF) of tertiary institutions in the country.

The call was made by Professor Stephen Adei, the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Ashesi University College at a conference organised by alumni of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

The conference in Ho is under the theme; “Re-engineering funding of tertiary education in Ghana; The role of the Alumni.”

"He said the IGFs have become the backbone for many universities and 'government must be interested in what the IGF is used for and [does not need to take it away] from the universities'", the Ghana News Agency reports.

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Prof. Stephen Adei holds a PhD (International Economics, University of Sydney), MSc (Strathclyde), B.Sc. (Legon), Bachelor of Divinity (London), Masters in Theology (UNISA), and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIMG).

He is a former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration and has bee widely credited for turning the fortunes of that institution around.