Gbarnga, Bong County – The head of the Interim Management Team of the Bong County Technical College, Dr. Roland Massaquoi, is calling on citizens of the county to begin rallying support for the college if the institution is to run as a full university.
Report by Selma Lomax, [email protected]
Dr. Massaquoi told a press conference in Gbarnga that the budgetary support from the government and fees collected from students cannot cover the cost of running a four year program.
“We are calling on citizens of the county to come to our aid by strategizing mechanisms to enable us raise money for the college,” he said.
“It is important because the money we receive from the national budget is insufficient to run a college.”
The Bong Technical College Interim Team Leader noted that besides the University of Liberia and Tubman University, Bong County is with the desire of running a full government university.
He described the establishment of the BCTC as a “golden opportunity” that must be nurtured by every citizen through financial and moral support instead of always negatively criticizing the management team.
Dr. Massaquoi also revealed that the interim management team has completed the “profiling of students” attending the college for the past five semesters in order to have a first-hand understanding of the courses the students have done.
The BCTC Interim President said the profiling process will enable administration design a course guide to help students know their statuses in the college.
“The students profiling process will take two weeks. Can you imagine some of the students have been at this college not knowing how many courses they have done? So, we strongly feel the introduction of the profiling of students would give students a sense of what they are doing at the college,” Dr. Massaquoi added.
He noted that by September this year, the college will begin employing resourceful people to mobilize support for the institution through project writings.
“Some of the staffers here don’t have term of reference and we will put that in place. Since I assumed the helm of leadership of the college, I have over the past months observed that some workers are not working; they only come and take pay at the end of the month. That I feel we have to curtail,” Dr. Massaquoi added.
Dr. Massaquoi also told journalists that plans are underway to transfer the main office of the college from the Tubman United Methodist School to its main office.
Until early this year when the Interim Management Team moved to its main office in the Gboveh Hill Community, the college had been operating from the William V. S. Tubman Gray campus.
Dr. Massaquoi said while he lauds the management of the school, the rental fees were astronomical and cost the college huge sums of money.