One block Portakabin Ghana University (Accra Institute of Technology) to soon partner with Nairaland in recruiting Nigerian students. I have a strong suspicion that Seun has an interest in the school. See below:


How Nigerian students are recruited

Armed with a whole array of agents in Nigeria who conduct education fairs, road shows – alongside master piece websites and a well functional social media presence, especially Facebook and Twitter - these universities get the attention of Nigerian students who are often disappointed with the country's education system.

The situation is such that institutions like Accra Institute of Technology, operating from one-block buildings, have the largest population of the official 110,000 Nigerian students studying in Ghana.

Dotting the Ghanaian landscape, these private universities compete with one another for space as well as the attention of foreign students, especially Nigerians, as they set up campuses under different names. The majority of them, irrespective of where they are situated, usually have city campuses alongside other campuses spread across the country.

Confirming the desperation of Nigerians for university education in Ghana, Registrar of AIT, Mr. Dominic Osei-Boakye, says, "When it comes to university education Nigerians are more ambitious. Surprisingly you will see a 16-year-old girl who leaves Nigeria for Ghana all by herself to school. They are highly ambitious and an average Nigerian parent has the confidence that their 16-year-old child will behave well here (in Ghana) and apply their ambition in the positive way."

Explaining how the institution recruits Nigerian students, Osei-Boakye, says he has been to Lagos, Port Harcourt and other major cities in the country with a view to enrolling them. He notes that the institution has also begun to leverage the use of social networking sites as an inexpensive way of reaching out to prospective Nigerian students.

"We go around the country and you know our website is there too. Now we are planning to do one or two things on nairaland.com (a popular online forum) while we also make use of our YouTube page and other social media," he adds.

Culled from Punch