The Management of the University of Ghana (UG) has attributed the persistent delays in releasing students’ semester results to high staff attrition and a slow government recruitment process.

The explanation follows concerns raised by Vice Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Davis Opoku, who said repeated student complaints about late results were affecting academic planning and progression.

Responding to the issue, Vice Chancellor, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, acknowledged that the university is struggling with limited personnel due to systemic hiring challenges.

“We try to do our best, but we also sometimes have constraints. We have constraints with faculty and staff issues. We get our staff being separated from the universities, but we don’t have the liberties to replace them,” she said.

Professor Amfo explained that bureaucratic delays in securing approval from government authorities to recruit replacements—especially after retirements, transfers, or deaths—have created gaps that slow down academic work and result processing.

She added that management is engaging relevant stakeholders to streamline the recruitment process and ensure that the university maintains optimal staffing levels to meet its academic and administrative obligations on time.