Kumasi, May 19, GNA- Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwah, Vice-Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called on institutions affiliated to the University to produce quality graduates to facilitate national development.

He also urged the institutions to provide good infrastructure and offer the right programmes to meet the standards of the KNUST. Prof. Adarkwah said these when the KNUST signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ejisu Catholic Spiritan University College of Philosophy in Kumasi at the weekend.

The MOU would enable the college to run programmes of the KNUST and also award its degrees.

Prof Adarkwah and Mr Kobby Yebo-Okrah, registrar of KNUST, signed for the University while Very Reverend Father George Boakye-Danquah, Rector and Rev Father Atto Jackson Donkoh, registrar, also initialled for the college. He advised them to keep proper records of students to avoid problems in the award of degrees and to admit only qualified applicants. Very Rev Boakye-Danquah thanked the KNUST authorities for allowing the affiliation to take place. Rev Father Ebo Mends, Academic Dean of the college, said it would admit students for Social Sciences programmes from the next academic year and later add Bachelor of Arts Business Management, Information Technology and Law.