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Basic Education Students Embark on Community Service

12 May, 2017 By louis Mensah

Students from the Department of Basic Education, of the Faculty of Education Foundations, University of Cape Coast (UCC) have embarked on a day’s education exhibition to showcase their knowledge and skills acquired in the fields of Basic Education and Early Childhood Education. The annual event, which is mostly held in the second semester of the academic year was heavily patronised by staff and students of the University and members of the Cape Coast community, who walked through the exhibition stands in amazement. In all, 400 Students studying the courses, ‘Creative Art, Music and Drama’, ‘Development of Instructional Materials’ and ‘Play and Integrated Curriculum’, took part in the exhibition. This year’s exhibition showcased over 200 Teaching and Learning Aids made from a variety of materials, Learning Centres set-up designs and art works produced by the students in levels 100, 200 and 300. Speaking at the ceremony, Dr Awo Sarpong, Lecturer and exhibition coordinator said the focus of the exhibition was to offer students the opportunity to showcase acquired knowledge and skills in their respective courses of study. Dr Sarpong said the exhibition also formed part of the Department’s agenda to improve the quality of teaching and learning in the Cape Coast metropolis, through its ‘Cape Coast Basic Schools Development Partnerships programme’ – a community service of the Department, which, in addition to a number of other education support services donates free Teaching Aids to its partner schools and under-privileged schools in Cape Coast. These include: UCC Kindergarten and Primary, Apewosika, Kwaprow and the University Interdenominational Schools, Jacob Wilson Sey school, Imam Khomeini school, and others. All the materials exhibited will be distributed to the respective schools in a ceremony to be held in June.

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Old Vandals Donate to UCC Hospital

09 May, 2017 By louis Mensah

Old Students of Commonwealth Hall-University of Ghana (Old Vandals Association), Central Region branch, have made donation to the Children’s Ward of the University Health Services (DUHS). Led by their President; Dr. Levi Yafetto, the Association donated items including pieces of baby teddy bears and play toys, as part of their objective to create enabling environment for children as they go through healing at the hospital. Receiving the items, the Director of DUHS, Dr. Evans Ekanem expressed sincere appreciation for the kind donation. The Ward In-Charge, Mrs. Charity Acquah thanked the Association for the gesture, and pledged to maintain the items well for the benefit of every child in the Ward. She further hoped for more kind donations from well-meaning individuals and groups to enhance the Facility’s agenda of making the Children’s Ward feel as home. Present at the presentation were the Health Services Administrator; Mr. Atta Yeboah-Sarpong and the Nurse Manager; Mr. Thomas Tamag,

Old Vandals Donate to UCC Hospital

09 May, 2017 By louis Mensah

Old Students of Commonwealth Hall-University of Ghana (Old Vandals Association), Central Region branch, have made donation to the Children’s Ward of the University Health Services (DUHS). Led by their President; Dr. Levi Yafetto, the Association donated items including pieces of baby teddy bears and play toys, as part of their objective to create enabling environment for children as they go through healing at the hospital. Receiving the items, the Director of DUHS, Dr. Evans Ekanem expressed sincere appreciation for the kind donation. The Ward In-Charge, Mrs. Charity Acquah thanked the Association for the gesture, and pledged to maintain the items well for the benefit of every child in the Ward. She further hoped for more kind donations from well-meaning individuals and groups to enhance the Facility’s agenda of making the Children’s Ward feel as home. Present at the presentation were the Health Services Administrator; Mr. Atta Yeboah-Sarpong and the Nurse Manager; Mr. Thomas Tamag,

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Lecturers Urged to Avoid Using Negative Words on Students

09 May, 2017 By louis Mensah

The Chairman of the International Youth Fellowship (IYF) in charge of West Africa, Rev. Hee Jin Park, has advised lecturers and members of the teaching fraternity to refrain from the usage of negative words on their students. According to him, negative words lower the spirit of students and prevent them from taking bold steps in their lives. Rev. Park gave the advice at a presentation organised by IYF Chapter of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) at the Institute of Education Conference Room on the theme “Power of Words in Mindset Education”. Rev. Park admonished members of the teaching fraternity not to use offensive words such as “fool, you can’t do it, stupid, irritated,” among others, as a panacea for correcting incorrigible or average students. He noted that the usage of such impulsive and unprintable words had the tendency to kill individual initiative and creativity to be productive, self-reliant and prosperous. Instead, he encouraged lecturers to use positive and considerate words to give life to despondent students in their class. He urged lecturers to reciprocate the good works of their students with words like “wonderful job, you are nice, angel, thank you, you can do it” among others. That, Rev. Park added, would serve as an inspiration to their students to work hard to achieve their goals and aspirations in life. He demonstrated to the audience to use a campaign dubbed “3.3.3 Campaign” where they held the hands of those sitting beside them to demonstrate how they can inspire their dispirited family members and say three positive words to spur them on. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K.T. Oduro, expressed gratitude to Rev. Park for his presentation and urged lecturers to demonstrate unalloyed love towards low-spirited students. He added that gender issues should be critical in the development of mindset education. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor called on Rev. Park and his team to consider setting up a chair on Leadership Mindset Education in the University. He advised the public to disabuse their minds from the negative impression about technical and vocational education in Ghana. International Youth Fellowship (IYF) is a global youth organisation, founded on Christian principles by prominent people from different walks of life, determined to solve youth problems.

UCC Confucius Institute Opens Chinese Club

09 May, 2017 By louis Mensah

The University of Cape Coast Confucius Institute has inaugurated a Chinese Club to promote the learning of Chinese culture. The Club, among other things, would offer members the opportunity to learn about Chinese history and how to cook Chinese food. Speaking at the Inauguration, the Chinese Director at the Confucius Institute-UCC, Prof. Hu Liangcai, called on interested students to take advantage of the Club to learn more about Chinese Culture. He said, “even if the only word a person knows in Chinese is 你好 (nǐhǎo), meaning Hello! / Hi! / How are you?, he or she is welcome to join the Club." Prof. Liangcai used the occasion to introduce eight different Chinese Provincial food to the audience. He observed that members of the Club would benefit from a Cooking Course, adding that in China, professional cooks earn 10,000 Chinese Yuan as per salary a month. The Co-Director of the Institute-UCC, Prof. K. Opoku-Agyemang, encouraged students to join the Club so as to know more about the Chinese and Ghanaian Cultures together. He said the Chinese Club was well known all over the world, adding that the biggest Chinese Club is in New York and the oldest formed in 1898 in Hong Kong. Prof. Opoku-Agyemang said that wherever Chinese nationals settle, they form Chinese Club to protect and know themselves, as well as disseminate Chinese culture. The Provost of the College of Humanities and Legal Studies, Prof. Dora Edu Buandoh, urged students reading the Chinese as their Liberal course to take it seriously. She encouraged all students to join the Club so as to learn more about the Chinese culture, cooking and clothing. The students at the inauguration were treated with sumptuous Chinese delicacies prepared by some Chinese Lecturers at the Institute. On display at the programme was an exhibition of Chinese clothes, worn on important occasions, such as Qipao, a body-hugging, one-piece Chinese dress for women, and Hanfu, a traditional, historical dress of the Han Chinese.

IEPA HOLDS STUDENT RESEARCH AND INNOVATIVE EXPO

09 May, 2017 By louis Mensah

The Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) has organised a fair for its students to share their research findings, innovation and creativity with members of the University Community at the third Expo 2017. The annual event, held at the ground floor of CELT, was on the theme “Promoting Students’ Creativity and Innovation”. Students – reading Contemporary Issues in Higher Education and Students’ Personnel Services – conducted visitors round their poster presentations, sharing with them their findings and recommendations during their interactions with their study population. The post-graduate students grouped into five had their project studies on “Graduate Assistantship, Empowering Floor Representatives in the Residence Halls, Conducive Environment for Differently Abled People, Special Students Population on Campus, and Academic Advice”. All the students, however, conducted studies on “Support a School Child Project,” a flagship project of the IEPA, in the adjoining communities of the University. In a remark, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K.T. Oduro, who was the Special Guest, lauded the IEPA for sustaining the EXPO initiative, which began in 2015. He said all over the world, dissemination of research findings were being skewed towards poster presentation in most academic institutions and commended the University, which hitherto frowned on poster presentation, for embracing such techniques in teaching and learning. Prof. Oduro noted that poster presentation in disseminating research findings help students to exercise their skills, as compared to power point and oral presentations.The Pro-Vice-Chancellor urged the IEPA to showcase the EXPO to other members of the public outside the University in order to for them to be abreast of their project studies. The Provost of the College of Education Studies, Prof Magnus Wilmot, advised the researchers not to be judgmental, but rather be objective with their research. That, according to him, would help their findings, recommendations and innovations stand the test of time. The Co-ordinator for the EXPO, Dr. Micheal Boakye Yiadom, said the exercise formed part of innovation in assessing students’ work for the End-of-Semester examinations. He observed that the idea of the EXPO was to come out with recommendations for management to adopt and implement for the betterment of the University. He added that some offices in the University had approached the Institute to tap ideas from some of their project works. Accompanying the Pro-Vice-Chancellor were the Registrar, Mr. John Nyan and the Director of Academic Affairs, Mr. Jeff Teye Onyame. The programme was chaired by the Director of the IEPA, Dr. Rosemary Bosu.

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Be Guided by Discipline and Hard Work - Pro-Vice-Chancellor Urges UCC Sports Men and women

02 May, 2017 By louis Mensah

The Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K.T. Oduro, has advised sportsmen and women to let discipline, hard work and time consciousness guide them in all their endeavours. According to him, sports required discipline and good conduct, stressing that discipline and time consciousness in sports were crucial in shaping individual sports personalities. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor made these statements during a dinner ceremony organised by the Sports Section to honour well-deserving sports men and women. He urged the sports men and women to know that the key to success in any endeavor was discipline, hard work and time management. Prof. Oduro, who was the guest of honour, used the occasion to congratulate Team UCC on winning the Mini Ghana Universities Sports Associations (GUSA) Games. For his part, the Chairman of the Sports and Recreation Committee, Dr. Charles Domfeh, said it was an undeniable fact that UCC Sports Team had been performing creditably well in Ghana. However, he said, UCC Sports Team had not been participating in International Universities Games- for close to three years now-because of financial constraint. Dr. Domfeh added that the Sports Section had been channeling a huge chunk of its limited financial resources to pay school fees for needy but brilliant students who were good in sports. Last year, according to him, the Section spent around 120,000 Ghana Cedis to foot the bills of some sports men and women, adding that only last week, the Section interviewed 50 students who were facing difficulties in paying their school fees. Dr. Domfeh, therefore, appealed to the incoming SRC President, Mr. Henry Arthur, to lobby for the Section at the Residence Board Meetings to charge every student GH¢ 5 to enable the Section to get more funds to assist the less privileged sports men and women in the University. He commended management for their relentless support towards sports on campus and reminded the sports men and women to “keep on playing sports; keep on being healthy and let the sky be your limit”. At the event, sports men and women were awarded with plaques and citations for their outstanding performances which brought laurels to the University. Some Senior Members of the University were also honoured at the function.

VOTEC Organises Fashion Show for Final Year Students

02 May, 2017 By louis Mensah

The Department of Vocational and Technical Education (VOTEC) has organised a fashion show for final year students reading Clothing and Textiles. It was on the theme “Unison of Western and African Prints in our Daily Lives”. The event, which is held every academic year for final year students as part of their academic work, was designed to promote made in Ghana goods and also to showcase the African culture through fashion. Sponsored by Tigo, Indomie, and Kalyppo, the show featured designs of 21 students who showcased casual and office wear, cocktail and club wear, party and beach wear, casual and dinner wear, formal and church wear, occasional and office wear. The rest were bridal and children wear, casual and cocktail wear, office and traditional wear, and casual and dinner wear. The fashion models- adorned in elegantly designed fabrics - majestically took to the runway to showcase their designs to the audience. Patrons at the event were visibly fascinated by the wide range of designs put on display by the student designers. The Head of the Department, Dr. Christine Boateng, who was a member of the panel of Judges for the show, commended the students for their dexterity and thanked the parents and guardians of the students for their support. She announced that the Department would offer programmes in Fine Arts, Sculpture, Communication Designs and, Building and Technology for undergraduates, masters and PhDs in the 2018/2019 academic year. Odikro Royals from the Department of Music and Dance entertained the patrons with traditional and cultural music performance.

Department of Finance and CESED Organise Financial Literacy for Traders

02 May, 2017 By louis Mensah

The Department of Finance and the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprise Development (CESED) both of the School of Business have organised a day’s interaction with over 80 traders drawn from the Abura, Cape Coast and Elmina markets on possible ways of improving upon their businesses. Opening the programme, the Head of Department of Finance, Dr. John Gatsi said the intention of the organisers was not only to listen but also to share experience with them. Dr. Gatsi said, he believed it was the duty of the School of Business to be responsible to the needs of the community by getting closer to them and offer the little help they could to enable members of the public derive some benefits from their expertise. “You are the ones who feed us and make us comfortable, so we need to share what we have with you so you can continue to make us happy”, he noted. Dr. John Gatsi indicated that there was the need to help them build their businesses so that when they were not around tomorrow what they have taken years and toil to build would not collapse. He commended the traders for their creativity since it was as result of that that were still in business. In a presentation, the head of CESED, Dr. (Mrs.) Mavis S. Benneh Mensah, who presented on the topic “Financial and Entrepreneurial Literacy for Traders advised the traders to be creative and develop new ideas in their trading activities to ensure that they will always remained in business. Dr. (Mrs.) Mavis S. Benneh Mensah entreated the participants to ensure strict and effective supervision of their assistants or workers as well as being patient and courteous to their customers. She advised the traders to diversify their businesses so as to stay in business since dealing with one item or commodity could be problematic at certain times as business people. Dr. Abraham Ansong, a senior lecturer of the School, chaired the programme and told the traders not to mix their capital with their profit in order to build their capital and hence their businesses. There was another presentation on the importance of Business Record Management by Dr.Samuel Kwaku Agyei, a lecturer of the School.

Let's Rethink How Teachers are Trained

28 Apr, 2017 By louis Mensah

An urgent call has been advocated for a rethink of how teachers are trained in both universities and colleges of education in the country. “In making teaching in our institutions of higher education meaningful to students and our nation, we need to rethink how teachers are prepared in our universities and colleges of education”. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K. T. Oduro said this at a seminar organised by the Centre for Teaching Support (CTS) on the theme: “Decolonising Mind and Action, Improving Teaching and Impact in Higher Education: Reflections in Ghana”. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor who was dilating on the sub-theme: “Colonial Mindsets in Higher Education Teaching: Influences on Teaching Philosophy, Pedagogical Stance and Teaching Impact”. The curriculum of tertiary institutions across the continent is still modeled on the thoughts and practices of the West and thus seems to orient towards the ideals of the colonial masters. This, notwithstanding the fact they physically departed the shores of the continent several decades ago. It was in the light of this that the forum was organised to find the way forward for this huge drawback on the continents development. Effort to reorient learning in higher education in Africa was made over five and a half decades ago when the Institute of African Studies and the School of Music and Drama were set up at the University of Ghana. This, Prof. Oduro said was made clear in the inaugural address of Osagyefo (Dr.) Kwame Nkrumah when he called for a “re-interpretation and a new assessment of African past and the abrogation of Eurocentric paradigms towards the study of African culture”. Unfortunately, however, Prof. Oduro said 60 years after Ghana’s independence, there must be something overwhelmingly wrong with the delivery of university education since in the minds of many analysts of African universities the curriculum and degree structure of African universities and the medium of delivery were deeply rooted in colonialism. Touching on the mindset that underpinned higher education provision and delivery in Africa, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor said it could be deduced from a proposal made by British Colonial Governor Laud Macauley that: “I have travelled across the length and breadth of Africa and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief- such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values. People of such caliber, I do not think we would ever conquer... unless we break the very backbone of this nation, which is her spiritual and cultural heritage and therefore, I propose that we replace her old and ancient education system, her culture, for if the Africans think that is foreign and English is good and greater than their own, they will lose self esteem, their native culture and they will become that we want them, a truly dominated nation”. According to Prof. Oduro, the Centre through the forum, was re-affirming the commitment of the university to Dr. Nkrumah’s Africanisation agenda for higher education as enshrined in the university’s anthem as: “we ‘re the brain child of Nkrumah, we train, we mould and live by his vision to impact all virtues that Ghana may be heightened”. To help uphold this virtue, he called for a paradigm shift from teacher centered teaching approaches to learner-centered and activity approach such as discussion method, problem-based teaching and IT aided teaching methods. He urged teachers to create non-threatening learning environments that would promote the voices of students and also endeavour to inform their teaching with local researched literature instead of the over-reliance on foreign literature. A Professor of African History at the University, Prof. De-Velera Botchway, who also spoke on the sub-theme, “Disrupting Colonial Mindset in the 21st Century Higher Education Teaching: The Power of Critiquing Colonial Paradigms and Engaging Reflective Thinking about Thoughts and Action” was not happy that in the 21st century the education set up in Africa was still following that of the colonial masters. Prof. Botchway reiterated that it was this kind of malaise that Kwame Nkrumah wanted to eradicate with the establishment of UCC, but upon his overthrow in 1966 those who took up the mantle did not deem it fit to continue. “Education must be Afrocentric in vision to help overthrow the colonial set up. We need to have the power to define”. Quoting one of South Africa’s freedom fighters Steve Biko, Prof. Botchway said the most potent weapon in the hands of oppressor was “the mind of the oppressed” and said, this called for the emancipation of the minds of Africans from mental slavery. Waxing lyrical the history Professor called on Africans to work towards this themselves by reminding them of what the late Jamaican Reggae legend Bob Marley said about this as: “Emancipate your self from mental slavery, non but ourselves can free our minds”. One major setback to this forward march for Africans to be masters of their own is the use of the language of the colonisers as both medium of instruction in schools and as official language in Africa. “We are still using the language of the colonizer and this is the main problem of keeping to the clutches of coloniality”. Prof. Botchway indicated that, to be respected in the globalised world “is to go back to originality”. Describing coloniality as the continuous use of the vestiges of colonialism in our current dispensation, he deplored the use of Latin words as motto of institutions, the wearing of wigs and gowns by judicial officers, use of academic gowns during graduation ceremonies and suits as official uniforms. He called for the creation of African symbols and dress codes for such functions since they would do away with those colonial representations in our institutions. He appealed to teachers to co-create and co-learn with their students instead of them acting the “sole repository of learning’. “Teachers still adopt the missionary method of teaching and see students as ‘tabula rasa’ meaning having nothing in their heads”, he noted. “This must change, educating people to regurgitate and by rote learning does not allow our students to contribute anything to society upon completion. We are training a lot but nothing changes”, Prof. Botchway stressed. Explaining the purpose of the programme, the Director of CTS, Dr. Douglas Agyei said the seminar was organised to help teaching staff of the University and other institutions of higher education to engage in critical reflection and develop practices that would improve teaching and learning. He added that CTS provides training through workshops, seminars on variety of seminars. The seminar was chaired by the Director of Research, Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC), Prof. Samuel Kobina Annim  

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