It is the intention of the University of Ghana, Legon, to establish itself as a world-renowned centre of research, so says its Vice Chancellor, Professor Ernest Aryeetey. At the university's recent congregation, the same Vice Chancellor lamented the educational institution's inability to recruit academic staff to replace departing ones.
It is a fact of life that at any one moment, vacancies are created in an organisation through death, compulsory or voluntary retirement, resignation, dismissal, medical discharge, etc. The organisation continues to exist because recruitment is undertaken to fill the vacancies so created.
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