The Institutional Affiliation Office in conjunction with the Centre for Teaching Support, has organised a training programme for assessors of the University of Cape Coast. Moderators or assessors are deployed to affiliated institutions to ascertain whether their operations of conform to the standards prescribed by the University or not.
A Professor of Entomology, Prof. Peter Kwapong, says Bees create more employment opportunities and generate income as compared to some developing and developed countries
Prof. Kwapong also explained that the income generated out of the insect is higher as compared to that of some developing and developed countries.
“Many of the world’s most important cash crops are pollinator-dependent. They constitute leading export of developing countries and developed countries providing employment and income for millions of people”, he said.
A Professor of Entomology, Prof. Peter Kwapong, says Bees create more employment opportunities and generate income as compared to some developing and developed countries
Prof. Kwapong also explained that the income generated out of the insect is higher as compared to that of some developing and developed countries.
“Many of the world’s most important cash crops are pollinator-dependent. They constitute leading export of developing countries and developed countries providing employment and income for millions of people”, he said.
The Institute for Education Planning and Administration, IEPA, has launched a project to prepare school managements in the quest to bring change and continuous school improvement to basic schools.
Dubbed: “Adopt a School", the project is aimed at improving the capacity and confidence of school leaders, supporting schools to ultimately improve continuous learning and also providing community services.
Transforming the healthcare sector is about equity not equality, the immediate past Chief Executive Officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Gilbert Buckle, has said.
"A good entrepreneur identifies opportunities, takes advantage, solves a problem and benefits from the result", Mr. George A. Ben-Smith, Vice Chairman, Cape Coast Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCRCCI), said this at a seminar organized by the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprise Development (CESED) for level 400 students of School of Business, University of Cape Coast. The objective of the seminar was to encourage the final students to develop entrepreneurial ideas, identify business opportunities and to intensify networking.
The University of Cape Coast signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Lincoln (UK). The partnership is to ensure mutual cooperation between the two universities in research development, faculty student capacity strengthening and student exchange programmes.
A lecturer at the Department of Optometry of the College of Health and Allied Sciences, Dr. Stephen Ocansey, has been awarded fellowship in the American Academy of Optometry (AAO). Dr. Ocansey who received the award at the Annual meeting of American Academy held from October 11-14, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois is the second Ghanaian to be awarded a Fellow of AAO.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, has affirmed the University’s commitment to ensure a holistic growth of Colleges of Education in Ghana. Prof. Ampiah noted that UCC would not renege on its responsibility as mentors of the Colleges but provide the necessary assistance to help the colleges achieve their mandate of producing quality teachers for the basic schools in the country.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, has inaugurated the Students' Support Centre of the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs at the North campus (New site). The new office, which is on the second floor of the Amissah Arthur Language Centre, is an extension of the operations of the Main Dean of Student Affairs office at the South campus (Old site) to serve students at the North campus. The office has Students' Accommodation and Counseling Desk, Financial Aid/Persons with Disability Desk, and Students' Leadership, Governance and Training Desk.
