The School of Nursing and Midwifery has organised a workshop on plagiarism for its postgraduate students.
Purpose
The workshop was to help the students understand the concept and also endeavor to avoid plagiarism in their writings. This has become necessary because the University was putting in place mechanisms to detect plagiarized work by students.
Opening Remarks
A team from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has paid a courtesy call on the Vice-Chancellor.
School of Agriculture Shares Research Work
Some Lecturers of the School of Agriculture have shared research projects they have conducted with their colleagues and the general public.
The School of Nursing and Midwifery of the University of Cape Coast in collaboration with University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg has organised a workshop for health professionals.
Theme for the Workshop
The UCC School of Business has won the maiden edition of the Tertiary Business Sense Challenge (TBSC) organised by Graphic Communications Group Limited.
With 50 points, UCC triumphed over Wisconsin International University College which managed to secure 24 points. The UCC team trampled over all the institutions it contested from the group stages to the grand finale of the challenge.
The University for Development Studies (UDS) which placed third position with 41 points defeated the University of Ghana, which obtained 39 points.
A delegation from the University of Cape Coast, is participating in a 10-day inaugural African Centres of Excellence (ACE) Impact workshop and boot camp in Djibouti to learn, network and share experiences.
ACEs and their partners, the Association of African Universities (AAU), National Councils for Tertiary Education and other stakeholders with support from the World Bank converged on Monday, February 18, 2019 for the workshop and boot camp with a concerted goal of strengthening research, academic and development programmes at national and continental levels.
A five-member delegation from the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), secretariat in Uganda has paid a courtesy call on the Pro- Vice Chancellor, Prof. Dora Edu-Buandoh.
Purpose of Visit
The Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology Education, Prof. Douglas D. Agyei, has noted that UCC will continue to offer quality academic services to its affiliate institutions.
Prof. Agyei noted that UCC provided the best mentorship to its affiliate institutions stressing that “Currently, several institutions are knocking on the doors of UCC for affiliation due to the quality of services we offer our affiliate institutions”.
As part of promoting Chinese language and culture in Ghana, the UCC Confucius Institute has celebrated the third Spring Festival on campus.
The Spring Festival is an annual event held in China and in Chinese communities around the world. This massive event takes place on different dates each year, but it typically begins during the beginning of February and continues until the middle of the same month.
The Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD) has organised a training programme for students of the University Practice Senior High School (UPSHS) to enlighten them on adolescent health development and sexuality.
The programme was aimed at educating the students to recognise the various factors in the foundational stages of adolescence which make young people vulnerable to undesired sexual behaviours.
