The Acting Dean of the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Professor Kofi Agyekum, has called for the inclusion of grassroots participation in governance through the use of the mother tongue.

He said “whenever the language is switched from that of the masses, plans for economic, agricultural and industrial developments are more difficult to make”. He advised that Ghana’s local languages must be developed to become a means of regular communication.

The Department of Mental health of the School of Nursing and Midwifery in collaboration with Autism Compassion Africa has organised a seminar on Autism and Applied Behaviour Analysis

The workshop was aimed at enlightening  health practitioners and students on Autism, managing and supporting families of children with such disorders.

The speaker, Mrs. Whitney Hammel, took participants through the history of Autism spectrum disorder, the diagnoses, treatment considerations and applied behavior analysis.

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.