Ho, July 28, GNA - The chairman of the Ho Polytechnic Council, Professor Frank Kwami has observed that the frequent strike actions leading to disruptions in the academic work of the country's Polytechnics will make it difficult for the public to sympathize with those institutions.

He made this observation in an address at a workshop on financial management for Managers and Administrators of the country's Polytechnics in Ho on Thursday.

The workshop formed part of a five-year capacity building project for the polytechnics sponsored by the Dutch Government through the Netherlands Universities' Fund for International Co-operation (NUFIC), in collaboration with the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) of the University of Cape Coast. Prof Kwami said campus instability always resulted in serious disruption of academic and financial administration, which tends to erode any sympathy for the action.

"Lack of public sympathy makes increasing occasions of strike action ineffective tools as if obeying the law of diminishing returns. "On the other side, it would seem as if the teething problems do not want to go away", he added, citing strike actions by education workers in general.

He expressed the hope that in the not too distant future, the teething problems of the Polytechnics will disappear, and to usher in "an era of steady undisturbed development." 28 July 06