The British Council has organised a programme to introduce a new English assessment tool to the University Community known as Aptis. Aptis, which is usually taken online, is an innovative global English assessment tool designed to test, assess and evaluate the English language skills of individuals in corporate and educational institutions. Addressing the participants on Aptis test, the Country Exams Manager at British Council, Mr.

Thirty-nine students of the Faculty of Social Sciences have been honoured at the 2017 Dean’s Award Ceremony. The award ceremony is aimed at recognising the efforts of hard working students at the Faculty and also encourage other students to take their studies seriously in order to achieve similar recognition. The awardees, with a Cumulative Grade Point Grade Average (CGPA) of 3.6 and above from level 200 to 400, received certificates from the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Francis Eric Amuquandoh. An Inter-Departmental Debate was also organised as part of activities marking this year’s event.

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Teach for Ghana (TFG), a leadership organisation that focuses on recruitment and training of graduates to teach pupils in the deprived schools. TFG over the years has been recruiting university graduates and young professionals who are referred as Fellows from a wide variety of disciplines to teach Mathematics, English Language, Integrated Science and ICT in rural communities.

The President of the Presbyterian University College (PUC), Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Adow Obeng, has noted that any nation that is unable to develop the skills and knowledge of its people through education, especially postgraduate education and utilise them effectively will continue to remain an underdeveloped country. Rev. Prof. Adow Obeng was delivering a public lecture on the theme “Making Post Graduate Education Relevant to Students and Society”, which was organised by the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Graduate Students Association (GRASAG).

The Director in Charge of Entrepreneurship Programme at Coventry University, Prof. Gideon Maas, has said that Entrepreneurship Centres are very important to the socio-economic development of any country. However, he pointed out that the centres were facing neglect in the world and, therefore, called for entrepreneurs to tackle those challenges and create future solutions. Prof. Maas said these at a workshop organised by the Africa Institute for Transformational Entrepreneurship (AITE) to market its activities at the University of Cape Coast (UCC).

Mr. Andrew Karas, the out-going United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Mission Director for Ghana, has paid a courtesy call on the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K. T. Oduro. He noted that the purpose of his visit to the Central Region was to inspect projects initiated by USAID and decided to call on the University to also check on the projects initiated by the Mission at the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Mr.

“As management, we are set on a mission to make UCC synonymous with higher quality graduate education in the country and beyond”. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah stated this during the 12th Session of the 49th Congregation for the School of Graduate Studies. A total of 2,214 students were presented with various postgraduate degrees, which included 51 Ph.Ds.

The Institute of Education has honoured 10 students from the Colleges of Education who excelled in the 2015/16 academic year. Dubbed “6th Excellence Awards Ceremony”, the awardees were selected from a total of 154 students of the 46 Teacher Training Colleges of Education in Ghana who had first class. Ms. Stephanie Tetteh Quansuwaa, from Tamale College of Education, who graduated with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.932 in Diploma in Basic Education, was adjudged the National Best Graduating Student. For her prize, she received a citation, laptop, modem, GH¢ 2,000.OO.