102 nursing college students who have been supplied admission to the Nursing Coaching School (NTC) in Bolgatanga for the 2025/2026 educational 12 months have been rejected citing the varsity’s growing old infrastructure and slender program choices, elevating contemporary considerations concerning the well being expertise pipeline in Ghana’s Higher East area.
Of the 347 college students who utilized for admission, solely 272 arrived on campus for the induction ceremony, the place principal Winifred Polsa Wondon revealed the size of the disaster dealing with the college. He added that six college students had already dropped out after enrolling, and warned that the decline would worsen earlier than this group reached their closing 12 months.
“We’re interesting by way of Professor Vida Yakon to the previous college students of the Nursing Coaching School in Bolgatanga to return to assistance from the faculty,” she mentioned. “No contribution is small.”
Though the college was established within the late Nineteen Sixties and is extensively identified for producing nursing professionals and college principals throughout Ghana, it nonetheless lacks enough housing amenities, a useful auditorium, a dependable fleet of automobiles, a safe boundary wall, and a everlasting settlement boundary with the neighboring Zaale neighborhood. Polsa Wondon identified that the growing old auditorium poses an energetic bodily hazard to college students and workers.
She formally appealed to the Higher East Regional Minister, the Bolgatanga Municipal Government (MCE) and the Member of Parliament (MP) for the area to foyer the Ghana Training Belief Fund (GETFund) for the development of an administrative advanced with a two-storey lecture constructing, separate housing blocks for women and men, a library and a pc laboratory.
Atanga Higher East Regional Minister Donatus Akamuguri, who attended the ceremony because the visitor of honor, asserted that his workplace is already engaged on the land dispute and can foyer the Bolgatanga Metropolis Council to redirect legacy venture funds to the college’s most urgent building wants.
Past infrastructure, the principal additionally expressed concern about scholar habits, warning new college students in opposition to playing, web fraud and overspending on units they cannot actually afford. She burdened that this drawback is widespread throughout increased schooling establishments and that nursing faculties are usually not immune.
On the tutorial entrance, the college reported good leads to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) licensing exams held in November and December 2025. Of the 227 examinees, 181 handed, for a go charge of 79.7%. One other group of 227 college students additionally handed the Kwame Nkrumah College of Science and Know-how (KNUST) closing examinations with 25 reaching distinctions.
