The Distance Education Students’ Association of Ghana, (DESAG) has donated food items and other consumables valued at GH¢ 3, 000 to the New Life International Orphanage at Ansepetu in the Central Region.
The items included 10 bags of rice,10 cartons of assorted soft drinks, two bags of detergents, five boxes of soap, 10 packs of toilet tissue, two boxes of noodles and two cartons each of of cooking oil and tomatoes.
The 5th edition of the University Basic Schools Sports Association (UBaSSA) Games has been held at a grand ceremony at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium.
The Games which brought together basic schools from the host, University of Cape Coast; University of Ghana, University of Mines and Technology and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology was on the theme, “Developing a Disciplined Personality through Sports, the Role of UBaSSA”.
Events for the three-day games include, football and athletics.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, has inaugurated a seven-member College of Distance Education Restructuring Implementation Committee at a ceremony at the College’s Conference Room.
Two officials from the San Diego State University have called on the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah at the Council Chamber, South Campus.
The two officials were the Director, Division of Research Affairs, Prof. Dena Plemmons, and Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Dr. Estralita Martin.
The Directorate of Research Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC) in collaboration with the Northwestern University, United States of America, has organised a seminar on the topic “The link between household water insecurity and food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa, and the story behind how this work was funded.”
Speaking at the seminar, Dr. Sera Young who is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, took participants through key three areas of her research work namely Food Insecurity, Household level Water Insecurity, and Grant Sourcing
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Queen’s University Belfast (QU), Ireland and the University of Cape Coast for the establishment of a Centre of Excellence for Food Safety, Fraud and Research Centre to be hosted by the School of Agriculture.
The workshop on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young People has ended with stakeholders calling for the need to intensify education on sexual reproductive and rights of Young People.
Among the issues discussed were the mandates and the core objectives of the various bodies they represented at the workshop and their main activities relating to sexual and reproductive health of young people. Others were interventions developed and implemented by these bodies and their outcomes, and the sister institutions they do partner with.
A total of 2,687 fresh students have been admitted to pursue various programmes at the University for the 2017/2018 Sandwich year.
Out of this number, 1,865 are postgraduate students and the remaining 822 are pursuing undergraduate programmes.
The Pro-Vice-Chancellor,Prof. George K. T. Oduro, has called on National Service Personnel who were posted to the University of Cape Coast for the 2017/2018 academic year to explore avenues of creating jobs for themselves after their national service period.
A delegation from the Virtual University of Cote d’Ivoire has paid a working visit to the University to explore possible areas of collaboration.
The delegation was made up of Prof. Mian Bi Sehi Antoine, Prof. Fernand K. Kouame and Mr. Bakouan Mamadou.
Introducing the delegation, the Director of Information Communication Technology Services, Dr. Regina Gyampoh, said she met the officials of UVCI at a conference in Lome, Togo and through interaction, they expressed interest in collaborating with UCC to share best practices and experiences.
