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The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) on Wednesday called for major transformation towards the fight against corruption, saying the noose around corruption must be tightened through pragmatic actions. “The NCCE is therefore raising up the fight against corruption through relentless intensive public and civic education towards changing our attitude, inject public accountability and personal responsibility across the country to help promote good governance”.

The Education Minister, said everything must be done to check false claims and remove the ghost and fake teachers from the system. She made the call in an address read for her at the 23rd annual meeting of the Conference of Directors of Education (CODE) in Kumasi. The event brought together in excess of 230 divisional, regional, metropolitan, municipal and district directors from across the nation to review their activities and re-strategize to improve performance.

Foreign tertiary institutions in Ghana have been directed by the National Accreditation Board to ensure that only students with certificates awarded by institutions accredited by the board be admitted to PhD courses. It is also concerned about a spate of honorary degrees awarded to personalities by some unaccredited or unqualified institutions.