TESCON (Tertiary Students Confederacy) is the student wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of Ghana founded on 8 January 2000.

Tertiary Students Confederacy
Founded8 January 2000
HeadquartersAccra
IdeologyLiberal conservatism
Conservatism[1][2][3]
Mother partyNew Patriotic Party
Websitenewpatrioticparty.org

It was inaugurated by the 2nd President of the 4th Republic of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor. Since its formation, TESCON has been one of the most important wings of the NPP's student and political activism and grass-root mobilisation. [4][5][6]

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  1. Mensah, Kobby (2010), "Political marketing in Ghana", Global Political Marketing, Routledge, p. 190
  2. Heise, Julius (2024). Securitising Decolonisation: The Silencing of Ewe and Togoland Unification under United Nations Trusteeship, 1945–1960. transcript Verlag. p. 22. ISBN 9783839473061 via Google Books.
  3. Smith, Alan G. (2016). A Comparative Introduction to Political Science: Contention and Cooperation. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. p. 286. ISBN 9781442252608 via Google Books.
  4. Francis, Asenso-Boakye (2011), TESCON is 10 Years - A Decade in Perspective, Ghanaweb, retrieved 8 March 2021
  5. Francis, Asenso-Boakye (2018), 18 years of TESCON; 25 years of 4th Republic – Ghana will rise again, Citi 97.3fm, retrieved 8 March 2021
  6. TESCON At 20; Two Decades Of Sefless Activism And Commitment, Peacefmonline.com, 2020, retrieved 8 March 2021