The Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA), Mr. Felix Gyamfi, has disclosed that 50 tertiary institutions across the country have been identified as unaccredited and will no longer be permitted to enroll their graduates for national service.
The revelation was made during an interview on TV3’s Hot Issues on Sunday, June 15, 2025. Mr. Gyamfi stated that the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) had flagged the institutions for either operating with expired accreditation or having never received accreditation at all.
“Already the GTEC approval process has identified about 50 schools that will not be allowed to do national service,” he said. “For about 18 of them, their accreditation has expired. Others have never had accreditation, but in the past, their students were doing national service.”
Mr. Gyamfi emphasized that the NSA, under his leadership, is introducing sweeping reforms to ensure transparency and accountability, particularly in the wake of recent scandals involving fraudulent or “ghost” names in the system.
“From now, we are going to be very transparent about it. Whereas in the past they had not involved GTEC to approve the list of universities, now GTEC will verify every institution before graduates are cleared for service,” he explained.
The NSA boss indicated that both public and private universities must be verified by GTEC to qualify their graduates for national service. He stressed that the Authority has submitted a full list of institutions under review to GTEC, and any school not appearing on the accreditation list will be barred from participation.
“I have sent every list of schools we have received, including private ones, to GTEC. If GTEC says a school is not on the list of accredited institutions, there’s no way they will be allowed to do national service, either as a school or individual,” he said.
Mr. Gyamfi added that an official list of the disqualified institutions will be made public in the coming days to ensure transparency and prevent any further breaches of the national service protocols.
The move is part of a broader effort to sanitize the system and restore public confidence in the credibility of the National Service Scheme.
