Reports from the campuses of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) indicates that the management and authorities of the school have banned gambling and sports betting among students on campus.
The decisions from the school authorities are to help and ensure students focus on their academic works since that is their sole reason for enrolling into the school. Students, nowadays, instead of spending enough of their time, studying their lecture books and researching on their study, now spent much of their time and money engaging in sports betting. This has diverted their attention, leading to poor students performance and productivity.
The information came after a forum held by the Academic board on Thursday, 2 May, 2019 with the purpose of addressing issues on campus.
Upon the decisions of University ordered The University Information Technology Service (UITS) to deactivate betting sites from the school WiFi system thus to unable students accessibility.
The Authorities disclosed that, the university is therefore not going to accept any offer being sponsorship or donation from any betting company for any program on campus. Hence any student culpable will be suspended for one whole academic year.