MONROVIA, LIBERIA-The National Commission on Higher Education (NCHE) has shut down thirty-one institutions of higher learning and suspended twenty-one for failing to meet the standards befitting institutions of higher learning.

The decision followed a nationwide quality assurance assessment exercise conducted by the Commission in November 2022.

The Director General of the NCHE, Dr. Edward Gonkeryor, said:” The inspection team, during the exercise, discovered that most of the higher institutions of learning operate under challenging conditions with several requirements likened.”

He named staff qualifications, absence of requisite facilities, non-compliance with regulatory requirements, and wasteful addition of programs without the authorization of the NCHE as challenges most institutions of higher learning faced.

Dr. Edward Gonkeryor emphasized that the weeding out of bogus and sub-standard institutions from the higher education system points to the need for vigorous actions to transform the higher education sector in line with the government’s ARREST Agenda for Inclusive Development (AAID).

By: Grace Tarwo