The Chief Executive Officer of GCB Bank, Mr. Anselm Ray Sowah, has observed that the current education system does not give students enough opportunities to build themselves outside the classroom so that they can be relevant to industry.
Mr. Sowah indicated that industry was looking for students who could think and analyse situations to solve complex problems affecting society.
A Lecturer at the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Dr. John Elvis Hagan Junior, has presented Cluster of Excellence Initiative Awards he won while pursuing his PhD at Bielefeld University in Germany to the Provost of the College of Education Studies, Professor Eric Magnus Wilmot.
The School of Graduate Studies in collaboration with Samuel and Emelia Brew-Butler GRASAG UCC Research Grant has presented grants to 40 qualified postgraduate students.
Samuel and Emelia Brew-Butler GRASAG UCC Research fund was established to provide financial assistance (grant) to postgraduate students to help them produce quality graduate research and early completion of their work.
UCC’s Commitment to Excellence in Quality Postgraduate Education
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.
