University of Ghana SRC fights Meal Plan Policy Implementation

daniel russell

August 14, 2015 3:23 PM

Barring any last minute intervention, the university will roll out the meal plan policy that seeks to ensure that students are served “wholesome and hygienic food on campus.”

The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Ghana has vehemently vowed to oppose attempts by management of the University to roll out a meal plan policy for students.

“It is not that we are strongly fighting this meal plan. Just look at the cost. I guess we are the ones going to eat the food, so if we say we do not like it, it shouldn’t be brought” acting Public Relations Officer of the SRC, Godfred Nathaniel Amoako said on Radio Univers’ morning show,

The policy was planned to be implemented in the 2013/2014 academic year following research findings from the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research which indicated that food eaten by the students are prepared under unhygienic conditions. It was however suspended due to fierce opposition by students of the University citing infrastructural challenges and untold financial burden on parents as a reason for their action

Reports suggest that all the Junior Common Rooms (JCRs) and the SRC have written letters of disinterest to management of the University.

A board meeting involving the SRC is expected to take place soon to make final decisions on the subject.

Sources close to the school’s management has said that continuing students would be exempted from the policy while freshmen will be compulsorily enrolled unto the program.

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