President-elect of the University of Ghana Sociology Students Association (SOSA), Jeffery Boateng, has appealed to the department’s administration to assign teaching assistants to Level 300 and Level 400 students.
In an interview on Campus Exclusive on Radio Univers, Boateng highlighted a significant gap in academic support within the department. He said that while Level 100 and Level 200 students are assigned teaching assistants and benefit from tutorial sessions, this support disappears at the most critical stages of their studies.
“In Level 100, Level 200 sociology, we assign TAs, and that is why we have tutorials that go on for Level 100s and Level 200s. But at the peak of what we do, what we study Level 300 and Level 400, where you have to go through quantitative research and all of that , we don’t have tutorial sessions for that. We don’t have TAs assisting Level 300s and Level 400s, which is quite problematic,” he said.
Mr. Boateng explained that this lack of assistance is a major concern among students.
“I hear students talk about that. At the peak of the moment, in the middle of the program, that is where we need assistance, that is where we need support,” he said.
He concluded his appeal by directly addressing the department’s administration.
“So we would advocate for that and plead with the administration to assign some TAs and let us have tutorial sessions for Level 300 and Level 400s… So we plead with the administration to provide the assistance,” he said.
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Story by Wilhemina Duhsie|univers.ug.edu.gh
Edited by Michelle Lartey
