The Department of Environmental Science of the School of Biological Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences (CANS) has received equipment from one of its partners in Denmark—the Copenhagen Business Academy (CPH).
A consultative meeting has been held to finalise discussions on the intended top-up Diploma for Nurse Assistant Clinicals (NAC) and Nurse Assistant Preventive(NAP) Midwifery programme which has been developed by the University of Cape Coast.
The discussions were aimed at putting in place modalities to ensure that the programme commenced in 2018 without any hindrances on the part of the key stakeholders.
The chairman of the National Peace Council, (NPC) Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, has launched a report on the 2016 Elections on campus.
The Senior Staff Association of the University Cape Coast (SSAUCC) has taken delivery of a number of vehicles for its members on hire purchase.
The vehicles will facilitate movement of members to and from work. The Director of Human Resource, Rev. Isaac Baafi Sarbeng, received the vehicles on behalf of the Union.
The Ag. Chairman of the SSAUCC, Mr. Charles Amos Odoom, said the Association has entered into an agreement with Tecede Auto Sales Limited to supply vehicles to interested members of the union.
The wife of a past student of the University, Mrs. Felicia Danso, has presented some books to the School of Business.
The books presented, belonged to her late husband, Mr. Ernest A. Danso, who studied B.A Social Science (Economics option) and completed in 2001. He served as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Economics and later went to the University of Ghana for his Masters degree.
Mr. Danso moved to the United States to further his studies and had been working there until his demise.
The newly elected executives of the Teachers and Education Workers Union (TEWU), have been sworn into office at a ceremony on campus.
The newly elected chairman, Mr. Stephen Williams, thanked members of the union for the conduct of the election and their massive turn out. He said they were very grateful for the trust reposed in them by members of the union to lead them.
He assured that they would work hard to champion their concerns, He therefore called for their support to enable them succeed as a union.
The Centre for Educational Research, Evaluation and Development (CERED) welcomed Ms. Vanessa Grace Bart-Plange, a graduate student from University of York-Toronto, Canada.
A three-member team from the Anhui Medical University, China, that is in the University as guests of the School of Medical Sciences (SMS) has called on the Vice-Chancellor.
The team on campus as a follow up to an earlier visit by a faculty member from SMS that is the Head of the Department of Microbiology, Dr. Dorcas Obiri Yeboah, to China last year. The Chinese delegation visit was aimed at pursuing further discussions on a possible collaboration between the two institutions.
Authorities of the University Basic Schools have presented six trophies won at the just ended Universities Basic Schools Sports Association games to the management of the University at a short ceremony held at the Council Chamber.
The UCC Basic Schools won five trophies in addition to the overall while their counterparts from the University of Ghana also took home five with University of Mines and Technology and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology taking none.
UCC Basic Schools hosted the three-day sporting events which featured athletics and football.
The Department of Animal Science, School of Agriculture, has organised a one-day training on “Rabbit Farming as a Business” for members of the Anglican Diocesan Development and Relief Organisation.
The trainer of trainee programme is aimed at equipping the participants to train other farmers in the Upper East Region.
Participants were taken through “Management of Breeding Stock, Feeding, Disease Control and Prevention, Processing of Rabbit Meat and Rabbit Rearing as a Business.”