A delegation of faculty and students of Kirkhof College of Nursing at Grand Valley State University (GVSU), USA, are on a two-week visit to the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to understudy Ghana’s Healthcare System.

At a briefing session to commence the visit on campus and other health facilities in Cape Coast, the Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery-UCC, Dr. Nancy Ebu Enyan, expressed her excitement to receive the team. 

The Public Relations Officer for the Central Regional Police command, Supt. Irene Serwaa Oppong, has advised Ghanaian women to be cyber security conscious to avoid falling victim to the activities of cybercriminals. 

According to her, with the advancement and development of technology in the country, cybercriminals had taken undue advantage of the cyberspace to embark on fraudulent activities.

A group of 23 American students from the University of Cincinnati (UC), USA, are in the University of Cape Coast (UCC) on a one-week educational tour as part of their practical lessons.

The students, from the School of Engineering and the School of Business, will visit microfinance companies in Cape Coast, as well as tourist sites. 

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Development Programme for Innovative Agro-Production Technology using Big Data (DIB), Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.

The agreement seeks to promote mutual cooperation and common interests in areas of shared benefits between DIB and UCC.

The Sam Jonah Library of University of Cape Coast has launched a Human Library Service (HLS), becoming the first library in Ghana to render such a service.

The Human Library is a scientific service in libraries across the globe designed to build positive framework for conversations through dialogue. It is a library where a person, instead of a book, is borrowed to listen to life stories.  The goal is to understand the different journeys taken in life and how to navigate an experience one is encountering.

A team from the Medical and Dental Council (MDC), Ghana has begun assessment of training facilities and academic programmes of the School of Medical Sciences (SMS) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).

The assessment is in line with Part II of the Health Professions Regulatory Bodies Act 2013 (ACT 857) which enjoins the MDC to ensure that training facilities and programmes of Medical and Dentistry institutions meet required standards.

The Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, has reiterated that the academic programmes run by the University are geared towards making students competitive on the job market.

Prof. Boampong pointed out that the programmes run by the University were reviewed periodically to make students more qualified to compete in the job market. 

The Vice-Chancellor was speaking at the 5th Session of the 54th Congregation to graduate 12,325 students of the College of Distance Education (CoDE). 

The Department of Soil Science has started engagements with key stakeholders towards building the needed human and technological capacities necessary for the fertilizer industry in Ghana.

For that matter, the Department of Soil Science engaged key stakeholders in a one-day workshop to introduce the state of the curriculum being developed and to elicit their inputs in order to make the programme respond to the needs of the fertilizer industry.