A professor of Finance at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Prof. John Gartchie Gatsi, has underscored the need for Ghana to adopt Islamic banking to promote financial inclusion and freedom of choice of financial products and services.
According to him, Islamic banking would considerably reduce untold poverty and burdensome project finance facing the country, whilst ensuring the promotion of social justice.
The School of Nursing and Midwifery has inducted levels 200, 300 and 400 students into the School. The inductees were from the Department of Adult Health and the Department of Maternal and Child Health of the University of Cape Coast.
The Heads of the aforementioned Departments presented the students for the maiden induction, who were officially inducted into the School as full-fledged student nurses and midwives by the Dean of the School, Dr. Nancy Ebu Enyan.
Oguaa Hall has once again emerged victorious in the women's category of the 2024 Inter-Hall Cross Country competition held at Casford Field, amassing an impressive 58 points, while Valco Hall secured the top spot in the men's category with 40 points.
The 10-kilometer race, organized by the Sports Section of University of Cape Coast, aimed at selecting talented athletes to represent UCC at the upcoming annual inter-university cross-country competition in the second semester of the academic year.
Twelve (12) students of the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences who excelled during the 2022/23 Academic Year have been awarded academic prizes for their excellent performance.
The Association of West Africa Universities (AWAU) has held its 9th Conference at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) with a call on stakeholders to promote quality tertiary education in the sub-region.
The three-day conference was on the theme, “Promoting quality tertiary education in West Africa through collaboration, regional integration and technology.”
The Director of the Africa Centre on Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR) at the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Denis Aheto, has started work as the TD Walter Bean Professor in Environment for 2024 at the University of Waterloo.
The University of Cape Coast (UCC), through the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR), has received international accreditation from the Accreditation Agency for Study Programmes in Engineering, Informatics, Natural Sciences and Mathematics (ASIIN) for fulfilling the institutional, procedural and cultural requirements for good teaching and successful learning.
The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has inaugurated the reconstituted members of the Governing Council of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) at a ceremony in Accra.
Reconstituted Council
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) Co-operative Credit Union has handed over a high-powered delivery bed to the University Health Services.
The advanced bed can be adjusted to the comfort and sleeping positions of heavily pregnant women for successful deliveries.
The humanitarian gesture was to show love as part of the UCC Credit Union’s social responsibility activities.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, has noted that the success of any educational institution does not rest only on the dedication of its faculty and staff but also on the support and involvement of its alumni.
Prof. Boampong indicated that UCC’s alumni possessed a wealth of knowledge, experience, and resources that could be harnessed for the growth and development of the institution.
