A former Vice-Chancellor of UCC, Prof. D. D. Kuupole, has recommended that the public, private partners and universities need to collaborate effectively to ensure a well-funded system for African universities especially, public universities in Ghana.

The Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K. T. Oduro, has called on African governments to put premium on university education by investing more in the sub-sector to improve on the quality of delivery.

“if African governments want universities to deliver quality education and quality research, then they must prioritize university education and invest more in the sub-sector”, he noted. 

He said African governments must enact policies that will enhance funding opportunities for universities.

Adehye Hall has climaxed its 55th Hall Week Celebration with a call on the future generation of women to be bold, focused, hardworking, and also serve as role model to others.

The week-long celebration was on the theme “Celebrating the Past, Honoring the Present and Shaping the Future of an Ideal Woman”.

Addressing the durbar, the Provost, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, Prof. Dora Edu-Buandoh, said the future generation of women should be ideal in many ways. She said they must be educated to meet the challenges at the place of work.

Three Level 200 students and a Teaching Associate of the Department of Music and Dance, are traveling to Italy to participate in a mini GLOMUS Camp organized by the Conservatorio di Musica, Licino Refice di Frosinone, Istituzione di Alta Cultura from the 8th to the 15th of April, 2018.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, has inaugurated a Garden which will serve as recreational facility for Adehye Hall.

Prof. Ampiah commended Adehye Hall for putting up the beautiful edifice and called on other halls to also emulate. “Adehye has set the pace and the University will take inspiration from what you have done and create more gardens on campus,” he assured. He congratulated the management of Adehye for thinking about the welfare of students.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, has commended the Campus Broadcasting Association of Ghana (C-BAG) for playing a key role in the dissemination of factual and relevant information to the public.

Prof. Ghartey noted the various radio stations on campuses in tertiary institutions in the nation have served as important platform for academia to educate, sensitize and also share research findings on critical issues affecting society.

The School of Agriculture has launched its alumni association at a ceremony on campus with a call on past students to help reposition the School as a “Centre of Excellence”.

Launching the alumni association known as “Agricolae”, the Provost of the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Prof. L. K. Sam-Amoah, made a clarion call on past students to contribute towards the development of the School.  He said the formation of Agricolae was long overdue, and therefore, all alumni must come on board to achieve the mandate of the School.

A two-week International PhD Summer School has been opened at the Institute for Development Studies (IDS).

The Summer School which is a collaboration between IDS and the International Centre for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) at the University of Kassel, Germany has the theme “Constructing Research Frameworks on the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa’s Policy Environment”.