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Twenty-five unaccredited nursing schools and a "training college" the regulators say does not exist for licensing purposes: Ghana's public warnings, and the students who enrol at their own risk
Ghana's health-training sector is regulated by two bodies, the Nursing and Midwifery Council for the professions and the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission for the institutions, and both have taken to naming schools that neither of them recognises.
According to GhanaWeb, the Nursing and Midwifery Council published a list of 25 unaccredited institutions running nurse-assistant, nursing or midwifery programmes, the largest number in the Greater Accra region, including schools with names such as Kings College of Health and Business Studies, Peniel School of Allied Health, Golden Sunbeam International College of Science and Technology and Greenhills School of Health Sciences. The council said that anyone who enrolled at them for nursing or midwifery programmes did so at their own risk. The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, in a joint notice with the council, warned the public that Royal Nursing Training College at Tafo Nhyiaeso in Kumasi was not accredited by either body to operate as a tertiary institution or to offer any health programme, and that its certificates, diplomas and degrees would not be recognised for employment, further study or licensing. The council separately reported removing two practitioners and a trainee from its register for impersonation and using forged documents to gain admission to training institutions.
The schools on the list are not hidden. They have campuses, uniforms, fees and graduation ceremonies, and their students believed they were training for a licensed profession. The regulators' notices are the only thing that distinguishes them from the accredited colleges next door, and a student who did not read the notice paid for years of training the council will not recognise.
The same structure appears in medicine across West Africa and beyond: institutions that are real as businesses and non-existent as qualifications. Check the regulator's accredited list, not the school's own accreditation page; check the professional council's position on graduates, not the institution's; and treat "recognised internationally" as the phrase that appears on every unaccredited prospectus.
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