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The book and research allowances brouhaha

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  • Ghanaman1 10 years ago

    With all the money politicians, officials and judges are chopping as bribes and theft, you don,t want honest work to be encouraged.

  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    some people from the ndc when they hear the truth about their genocide and racist tribalism go into a stupefied frenzy foaming at the mouth thinking that will make their lies and propaganda true . The fact remain the Akans ar ...
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  • TOO LATE 10 years ago

    This Book and Research Allowances should have been cancelled several years back by any good thinking Government in power ,for it is a big drain on our tax payers money.It is simply unsustainable.The Lecturers should show us t ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    All sane pple know that you're a deranged, ethnocentric individual but must you insist on picking our pioto everything we went to the bathhouse to wash some dirt off?

    Anyway, I have some rat poison laced dish ready for yo ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    Your comment and mentality, to say the least, are pathetic, even though you are being flippant! You guys must learn to address crucial national issues with some element of seriousness, instead of this equalisation of the loot ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    I agree with you regarding competitive funding tied into actual research and production of knowledge that will be the basis of promotion in the Ghananain academy. There are too many calling themselves professors who have no b ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    Thanks for agreeing with me on this one.

    Well, since they have been receiving book and research allawas since the 90s, they might just have body of knowledge to show for it. Don't take my word for it though.

    Andy-K

  • francis kwarteng 10 years ago

    Dear Andy,

    How are you? I hope you have recovered from your cold.

    Anyway, you have made a powerful argument. For instance, some of the profesors who taught me used notes that were 7-years old or even older.

    Some of ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 10 years ago

    Nyebro, I've recovered of sorts.

    Your anecdotal narrative is spot on in describing the empirical situation prevailing in our tertiary insts. prior to the institution of the book and research allowances in the mid-1990. Ca ...
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  • francis kwarteng 10 years ago

    Bro,

    Good you are making progress healthwise.

    Have a great week.

    Thanks.