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Oguaa Hall Wins 21st Inter-Hall Soccer Competition

15 Oct, 2016 By louis Mensah

The Premier Hall, Oguaa, has won the 21st Inter-hall Soccer Competition for both men and women categories.

In the Women category, Oguaa hall secured 13 points to win the competition and11 points to place first on the league table

The Inter-hall games also brought together Casely Hayford (Casford) Hall, Kwame Nkrumah Hall (KNH), Valco Hall, Adehye Hall, Atlantic (ATL) Hall and Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) to compete in other disciplines such as Goalball, Netball, Badminton and Table Tennis.

Addressing the closing ceremony, which saw the presentation of trophies to winners of the competition, the Dean of Students' Affairs, Dr. Koawo Edjah, congratulated the winners on their sterling performances. He urged the losing sides to do their homework well in order to perform creditably in the next Inter-Hall Games.

On his part, the Chairman of the Sports Recreation Committee, Dr. Charles Domfeh, praised the participating halls for their excellent show of sportsmanship. He called on the players to take their training seriously.

In attendance were the Registrar, Mr. John Kofi Nyan, the Director of Public Affairs, Major Baah-Bentum (rtd) and other officials.

Below are the lists of the Inter- Hall Games Competition 2016/17 Final Results:

GOALBALL-MEN

VALCO 1st

CASFORD 2nd

ATL 3rd

KNH  4th

OGUAA  5th

GOALBALL- WOMEN

ATL 1st

VALCO 2nd

KNH  3rd

ADEHYE 4th

OGUAA 5th

NETBALL-WOMEN

GRASAG 1st

ADEHYE 2nd

ATL 3rd

OGUAA 4th

VALCO 5th

KNH 6th

TABLE TENNIS-WOMEN

KNH 1st

VALCO. 2nd

OGUAA. 3rd

ATL 4th

ADEHYE 5th

BADMINTON-MEN

CASFORD 1st

KNH 2nd

ATL 3rd

OGUAA 4th

VALCO 5th

GRASAG 6th

BADMINTON-WOMEN

ADEHYE 1st

OGUAA. 2nd

VALCO 3rd

ATL 4th

GRASAG 5th

KNH. 6th

SOCCER-MEN

OGUAA 1st

CASFORD. 2nd

KNH. 3rd

VALCO 4th

GRASAG 5th

ATL 6th

SOCCER -WOMEN

OGUAA 1st

KNH  2nd

VALCO. 3rd

ADEHYE 4th

ATL 5th

TABLE TENNIS-MEN

VALCO 1st

OGUAA. 2nd

KNH. 3rd

CASFORD. 4th

ATL 5th

TABLE TENNIS-WOMEN

KNH 1st

VALCO  2nd

OGUAA 3rd

ATL 4th

Adehye 5th

14 Oct, 2016

REGULAR STUDENTS’ APPRAISAL OF COURSES AND TEACHING FOR THE FIRST SEMESTER OF 2016/2017 ACADEMIC YEAR (EVALUATION OF LECTURERS)
 
The Directorate will embark on the administration of questionnaires for Students’ Appraisal of Courses and Teaching for the First Semester of 2016/2017 academic year. 
This exercise is scheduled from Monday, 7th November, to Friday, 25th November, 2016 (excluding weekends).
 
Please find below telephone numbers one can contact for further information. 
 
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STUDENTS' APPRAISAL OF COURSES AND TEACHING 2016/2017 ACADEMIC YEAR

14 Oct, 2016 By Anonymous (not Verified)

REGULAR STUDENTS’ APPRAISAL OF COURSES AND TEACHING FOR THE FIRST SEMESTER OF 2016/2017 ACADEMIC YEAR (EVALUATION OF LECTURERS)

  The Directorate will embark on the administration of questionnaires for Students’ Appraisal of Courses and Teaching for the First Semester of 2016/2017 academic year.  This exercise is scheduled from Monday, 7th November, to Friday, 25th November, 2016 (excluding weekends).     Please find below telephone numbers one can contact for further information.                            Dr. Precious A. Mattah                       0277573810                         Mr. Justice Albert Kwarteng                0244517582                         Mr. Gabriel Keney                              0267778227                         Mr. John Ekow Kakraba                     0241898446                         Mr. Dominic Amoateng Sabeng           0265920592 As usual, we request for your maximum co-operation for the exercise. 

KSU to Assist UCC to Build Public Health Training Centre

11 Oct, 2016 By louis Mensah

A delegation from Kennesaw State University (KSU), USA, has expressed its readiness to collaborate with the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to pursue a grant for the construction of a Public Health Training Centre.

According to the KSU delegation the proposed Public Health Training Centre would not only educate students on clinical health related matters but would equally put premium on violent prevention and conflict management as important facets of public health.

This came to light when Prof. Sam Abaidoo, led a delegation including, Dr. Barbara Blake, Dr. Chi Zhang, Dr. Evelina Sterling from the Kennesaw State University to pay a courtesy call on the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, at his office.

Prof. Abaidoo noted that KSU, in collaboration with a UCC team led by Prof. H. S. Amonoo-Kuofi, was working on a grant application to be submitted to American Schools and Hospitals Association (ASHA) to build the facility. He said the Training School would give the requisite skills and capabilities to students to deal vigorously with any eventualities in the discharge of their duties as public health professionals.

As part of their pre-grant meeting the delegation would learn firsthand the Information Technology (IT) capabilities of the University, so that they would know what IT component may have to be included in the grant to improve the proposed training. He placed the current collaboration in the context of long-standing relationship between KSU and UCC dating back to 1999 under Prof Agyapong, a former Vice-Chancellor of UCC. 

Receiving the high-level delegation, Prof Joseph Ghartey Ampiah welcomed Prof. Abaidoo and his accompanying delegation to the University. He expressed joy at KSU for choosing UCC as the institution to collaborate with on the proposed Public Health School. He assured the delegation of his unflinching support for the project.

Prof. Ampiah was hopeful that the KSU-UCC collaborators would get the grant from the USAID/ASHA to build the facility, which will be situated within the Amonoo-Kuofi Medical Village.  The Vice-Chancellor commended KSU for placing premium on IT as part of this planned endeavor, which he said forms part of his topmost priorities in seeking to digitize the University.

The meeting was attended by the Pro-Vice Chancellor, Prof George K. T. Oduro; the Registrar, Mr. John Kofi Nyan; the Provost of the College of Health and Allied Sciences, Prof. Harold S. Amonoo-Kuofi. Others included the Dr. William Boateng and Dr. Kingsley Adjei, who are part of the UCC collaboration team.

Developing Countries Should Employ Innovations to Fight Climate Change –Gina McCarthy

11 Oct, 2016 By louis Mensah

The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Gina McCarthy has called on developing countries to employ innovations to fight climate change.

“It is necessary to think of innovations that will bring people out of poverty and not create further impoverishment”.

The Administrator was speaking to the media after a panel discussion on the topic: “Opportunity and Innovation: How the US is leading Global Efforts to Respond to Climate Change” at the University of Cape Coast.

Gina McCarthy was of the view that it was time to be smarter in looking for solutions to the challenges that confront the environment or climate to create a safe and secured future.  According to her, the US for example, had reduced air pollution by as much as 70% and added that they would work together with Ghana to fight climate change. “We are here to support Ghana finding solutions to climate change challenges.

 

She said her mission in Ghana was to share best practices of the US with her Ghanaian counterparts so that together they could all determine solutions to the environmental problems of the country.

As part of the visit, she would also engage women fish processors who use improved fish smokers that reduce emissions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, decrease post-harvest losses of fish, and have higher efficiencies in fuel-wood utilization which contribute to improved health and profit margins among women traders.

 

In addition to this, she would have discussions with officials of the Ministry for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation and the Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency on matters that bother on the environment.  She would also participate in other activities to be organised by some Ghanaian authorities. All these are meant to find out how the US could help Ghana to reduce carbon emissions.

Gina McCarthy and her entourage had earlier paid a courtesy call on the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ghartey Ampiah. Discussions at the meeting centered on collaboration between UCC and her agency to effectively contribute to improving the environment to ensure food sufficiency, prevent post-harvest losses and also promote good health among Ghanaians.

Present at the meeting were the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K. T. Oduro; Dean, School of Biological Sciences, Prof. Johnson Boampong; Dr. Dennis Aheto who is the Project Manager USAID/UCC Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Support Project and also the Coordinator of the Centre for Coastal Management and Head, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences,Dr. Noble Asare.

African Economic Research Consortium Officials Call on Vice-Chancellor

11 Oct, 2016 By louis Mensah

A delegation from the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) who are on working visit to UCC has called on the Vice-Chancellor at his office.

AERC is a major teaching and research organisation collaborating with the Department of Economics.

Each year, Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) students from the Department undertake elective courses in Nairobi for three months. The leader of the delegation, Dr. Innocent Matshe, who is the Director of Training at AERC, said the Department of Economics is a member of the AERC, therefore they decided to visit and senisitise senior management and final year students of the department about the activities and opportunities on offer by the group.

The visit was also intended to take stock of AERC funded projects and review the existing Memorandum of Understanding. Dr. Matshe said the time has come to route the University in major economic networks and circles to bring in more research collaborations and funding to support the training of much needed professionals in the economic field.

Dr. Matshe indicated that there were over 4,000 researchers in their network, for that matter to help strengthen economic decision making, efforts should be geared towards research and training. According to him currently there is an amount of $10bn available to be accessed but due to lack of capacity in sourcing funds, the money was still sitting idle.  “We need to build capacity where it is lacking, we have to do it together, because together we are stronger and can succeed faster”.

Responding the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Ampiah called on the Department of Economics to try and bring other departments like the School of Agriculture to close the capacity gaps by building their capacity.

Prof. Ampiah urged the department to make their courses more friendly to get more students to enroll. “You have to dispel the notion that one has to be of some caliber before one could do economics”.

“We can build our own capacity if we pull our resources together, we can build something that cuts across”. He called on the leadership of the department to nurture it into a more international status by changing their modus of operandi from within. “Capacity building should start from within and transferred elsewhere. Break the shell and have more networks”.

 

 

UCC & Ghana National Association of the Deaf Discuss Introduction of Sign Language Interpretation Course

11 Oct, 2016 By louis Mensah

Three officials of the Ghana National Association of the Deaf led by the Executive Director, Mr. James M. Sambian have paid a courtesy call on the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah at his office to discuss possible ways of starting a course in Sign Language Interpretation in the University of Cape Coast.

This is to afford the Deaf in the society access tertiary education and enable them get employment in the formal sector.   The association has secured funding from the Danish government for a three-year period, ending 2018 to support the running of the course.

The Executive Secretary, Mr. Sambian, took the opportunity to congratulate the Vice-Chancellor on his appointment and said he was hopeful that the association could achieve its dream of starting a course that would culminate possibly in the award of a certificate or diploma.

The association in a citation presented to the Vice-Chancellor commended him for his effort, selfless and social work towards Deaf-Education in Ghana noting that “As an all-round educationist, we hope you will remain an Icon of hope and progress”. 

The Vice-Chancellor welcomed the idea of training people who would be trained to become beneficial to the society as well as to help equip people with hearing impairment to enable them contribute meaningfully to nation building. He said the document would be studied and fine-tuned for onward submission to the Academic board for approval.

“We will do our best, so that the course can start in 2017”.

CoHAS Honours Prof. Ernest Owusu-Ansah

11 Oct, 2016 By louis Mensah

The College of Health and Allied Sciences has organised a send-off ceremony in honour of the Founding Dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences, Prof. Ernest Owusu-Ansah at the Coconut Grove Hotel.

Prof. Owusu-Ansah who retired from the services of the University in September 2016 was presented with a citation, cloth, cash and other items in recognition of his valuable contributions to the growth and development of the School during his tenure as the Dean.

The citation presented to him read as follows:

“It was a great privilege having you as the Founding Dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences.

You have been a true human resource developer, committed and hardworking mentor, a visionary leader and an encourager.

Your love for this University was demonstrated in your great passion the School. We shall always remember your care for humanity, special respect for all and your outstanding industrious nature.

As a Founding Dean, you were prudent in handling matters, exercising pure judgement, intelligent in counselling and wise in speech.

We really appreciate you

Ayekoo"

 

Present at the ceremony were the Provost, College of Health and Allied Science (CoHAS), Rev. Prof. Harold S. Amonoo-Kuofi; the Dean, School of Medical Sciences, Prof. Francis Offei and current Dean, School of Allied Health Sciences; Dean, School of Nursing, Prof. Alexander Nii Moi Pappoe; Prof. Moses Joojo Eghan, College Registrar, Mr. Godwin Mensah, some heads of department and Faculty Officers and some administrators of CoHAS

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CoHAS Honours Prof. Ernest Owusu-Ansah

11 Oct, 2016 By louis Mensah

The College of Health and Allied Sciences has organised a send-off ceremony in honour of the Founding Dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences, Prof. Ernest Owusu-Ansah at the Coconut Grove Hotel.

Prof. Owusu-Ansah who retired from the services of the University in September 2016 was presented with a citation, cloth, cash and other items in recognition of his valuable contributions to the growth and development of the School during his tenure as the Dean.

The citation presented to him read as follows:

“It was a great privilege having you as the Founding Dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences.

You have been a true human resource developer, committed and hardworking mentor, a visionary leader and an encourager.

Your love for this University was demonstrated in your great passion the School. We shall always remember your care for humanity, special respect for all and your outstanding industrious nature.

As a Founding Dean, you were prudent in handling matters, exercising pure judgement, intelligent in counselling and wise in speech.

We really appreciate you

Ayekoo"

 

Present at the ceremony were the Provost, College of Health and Allied Science (CoHAS), Rev. Prof. Harold S. Amonoo-Kuofi; the Dean, School of Medical Sciences, Prof. Francis Offei and current Dean, School of Allied Health Sciences; Dean, School of Nursing, Prof. Alexander Nii Moi Pappoe; Prof. Moses Joojo Eghan, College Registrar, Mr. Godwin Mensah, some heads of department and Faculty Officers and some administrators of CoHAS

Sports Section Unearths New Talents for the Upcoming GUSA Games

11 Oct, 2016 By louis Mensah

The Sports Section has held the 21st Inter-Hall Cross Country competition to hunt for quality talents for the upcoming Ghana Universities Sports Association (GUSA) games, which will take place at the University for Development Studies, Tamale.

The keenly contested competition, organised under the International Association of Athletics Federation's(IAAF) rules, saw athletes from the Kwame Nkrumah Hall (KNH), Atlantic Hall (ATL), Oguaa Hall, Adehye Hall, Valco Hall and Casely Hayford (Casford) Hall.

After the 10km distance marathon race, Oguaa Hall emerged winners with 54 points. KNH had 67 points to place second, whilst Valco Hall and Adehye Hall bagged 103 and 105 points to secure the third and fourth positions respectively in the women category.

In the men category, which saw a massive turnout, KNH Hall was declared winners with 47 points, whilst Valco had 66 points to place second. ATL Hall secured 123 points to get the third position, with Casford Hall and Oguaa Hall getting 129 and 168 points to place 4th and 5th positions respectively.

Sarah Owusu, from Oguaa Hall, was adjudged the best female athlete, whilst Malik Yakubu, a Casford Hall athlete, was crowned the best male athlete. Other Winners, including halls of residence of the various categories were given cash prizes.

Closing the ceremony held at the Casford field, the Dean of Students Affairs, Prof Koawo Edjah, commended the athletes for their good sportsmanship. He advised them to train very hard in order to defend their titles in the forthcoming GUSA Cross Country in Tamale in November 2016.

The Chairman of the Sports and Recreation Committee, Dr. Charles Domfeh, congratulated the athletes on their hard work and urged them to take their training seriously. He encouraged athletes who were not named in the squad that would represent the University in Tamale not to lose hope, indicating that they could be called at any time to replace their colleagues for any unforeseen circumstances.

Mr. Adu Gyamfi, a Convocation representative on the Sports and Recreation Committee; Mr. Daniel Okyere, and other high-level officials graced the occasion.

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