The 3rd International Conference on Education Research For Development in Africa (ICERDA)  which aimed at re-examining the challenges of education in Africa and to find solutions through research has been held at the University of Cape Coast (UCC).

The Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR), has handed over two 4×4 brand new Nissan Navara pickups to the Procurement Section and the Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).

Final-year students of the Department of Vocational and Technical Education (VoTEC) have been advised to monetise the skills and knowledge gained from their field of training.

The Board Chairman of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Enterprise, Prof. Kwaku Enning, who gave the advice, implored the students to take the entrepreneurial skills acquired from the Department seriously to set up their own businesses and desist from the attitude of searching for non-existent jobs after school.

Traditional authorities have been called on to support government in the country’s fight against illegal mining, colloquially known as “galamsey”. This appeal was made by a Historian of Ghana and the Environment at the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Kwame Osei Kwarteng.

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has out doored the country’s first integrated data repository, the Statistics Bank (StatsBank). The platform is to empower policy makers, professionals and students to ensure that data-driven decision-making become more inclusive and widespread across the country.

The Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast (UCC), Prof Johnson Nyarko Boampong, has participated in the China-Africa Cooperation for Development Conference which was organised by the Centre for International Knowledge on Development (CIKD) in Beijing.

The Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has kick-started the training and retraining component of the National Unemployment Insurance Scheme (NUIS) for 1000 workers in the tourism and hospitality sector of the country.

The training and retraining programme, fully funded by the Government of Ghana, focuses on preserving and upgrading the human capital and skills of beneficiaries who lost their employment or are under-employed as a result of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic.

The Ghana Geographers Association annual conference has been held at the  University  of Cape Coast with a call on geographers to adopt  multi-disciplinary approaches to help the country achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This year’s event   was on the theme, “Ghana's Journey towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Perspective of Geographers."

The keynoter for the grand opening of the conference, the Head of the Ghana Statistical Service, Prof. Samuel Kobina Annim, called for workable strategies in order to achieve the SDGs in Ghana.