The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole has commended the Department of Conservation Biology and Entomology for creating public awareness of the importance of biodiversity and how it could be utilized to promote safe environment for the Ghanaian society.
Prof. Kuupole gave this commendation during a ceremony to create awareness on the efforts of the department to help control the invasion of bats on the university campus.
A two-day training workshop has been organised to build the capacity of Quality Assurance Officers in the various institutions affiliated to the University of Cape Coast.
The training workshop which was facilitated by the Institutional Affiliation Office in conjunction with the Directorate of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance of UCC was on the theme “Ensuring Academic Quality in Higher Education Institutions”
A delegation from UNICEF Ghana has paid a working visit to the Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast at his Office. On the purpose of the visit, the leader of the team, Ms. Aarti Saihjee, Chief of Education, UNICEF Ghana indicated that the team visited the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration and decided to pay a courtesy call on the Pro Vice-Chancellor to abreast themselves with the upcoming Second Easter-Annual Forum to be organised by the University.
The “Youth Enrichment through Sports” YES Ghana has donated sports equipment to selected basic schools in the Cape Coast metropolis.
The schools were the University of Cape Coast Primary School, Bakatsir Methodist Junior High School, OLA Presbyterian Basic School, University Practice Senior High School and Apewosika M/A Basic School.
A delegation of Assessors from the University of Cape Coast Committee on Institutional Affiliation have met with staff of the Nurse Anaesthesia Training School(NATS), Ridge Hospital in Accra to interact and inspect facilities at the school.
The visit of the assessors was aimed at finalising NATS affiliation to the University of Cape Coast School of Nursing. Currently the Ministry of Health has approved the affiliation of degree top-up programmes of 12 Nursing Training Institutions to the University of Cape Coast.
The Chairman of the University of Cape Coast Council, Nana Sam Brew Butler has urged graduates of the University to be pioneers of teaching and learning that are tailored toward promoting sustainable development.
He emphasised that the fact that Ghana has reached a point where education for sustainable is a necessity saying “Your lessons ought to empower students irrespective of their ages to assume responsibility to plan for, cope with, find solutions to issues and encourage changes in behaviour towards creating sustainable future.”
A one-day Self Evaluation retreat has been held for senior members, senior and junior staff of the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) at Birdrock hotel, Anomabo.
A delegation from the Volta River Authority Hospital (VRA), Aboadze in the Western Region has called on the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K. T. Oduro, as part of their familiarisation tour of the University Health Services.
Two officials from Roche, a leading health care provider based in Switzerland with a subsidiary in Ghana has held a workshop for staff of the UCC Hospital to build their capacity on Hepatitis B & C.
The workshop is aimed at training the staff to effectively carry out screening and diagnosing Hepatitis B & C on a pilot basis at the University of Cape Coast. The workshop forms part of a project by Roche to fight the disease in the country.
The School of Graduate Studies (SGS) has held a seminar for Directors of Institutes, Heads of Department, and Co-ordinators of Units in the University to discuss the reviewed academic policies and regulations for graduate studies.
The old academic policies and regulations which expired in 2015 has been reviewed and would become operational in 2016.
