The Deputy Director of the Medical and Dental Council, Dr. Divine Ndonbi Banyubala has called on policy makers to pay attention to cultural dynamics of society before they come up with rules and regulations.
This was contained in a presentation made on his behalf by Dr. Justice Bawole of the University of Ghana Business School at the opening of the 2nd Faculty of Arts Colloquium with the theme “The Humanities and Indigenous Knowledge In Health”.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole has noted that understanding the health needs of rural communities form an integral part of the training of medical students at the University of Cape Coast School of Medical Sciences (UCCSMS).
Prof. Kuupole explained that UCCSMS through the Community Based Experience Service Programme (COBES) enjoins the medical students to experience rural life and also assess the factors that affect the health of the people in order to find solutions to them.
The University of Cape Coast Parliament represented by Paul Addah and Awutunde Awosika won silver at the recent Common Wealth Debate which was organised by the Parliament of Ghana for six universities in the country at the International Conference Centre, Accra.
Participating Universities were the University of Cape Coast (UCC), University of Ghana (UG), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The rest were University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), University for Development Studies (UDS) and the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR).
The management of the University has held a retreat at Birdrock Hotel, Anomabo, to evaluate the Collegiate System and also set strategies towards repositioning the University of Cape Coast as one of the leading Universities in Africa and beyond.
The Centre for International Education has been meeting senior members of the various faculties/schools of the University of Cape Coast to create awareness among members of the functions of the Centre and the opportunities that are available to staff/faculty and students. Full details coming up.
The Faculty of Social Sciences has honoured 36 students from level 200 to 400 who have excelled in their academic work at the 2015/2016 Dean’s Award Ceremony.
The award winners who obtained Cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3. 6 and above fall within the first class category in their respective programmes of study.
The 5th Excellence Award organized under the auspices of the Institute of Education, has been held with a call on the Ghana Education Service to grant study leave to the award winners to pursue a two-year Post Diploma studies at the university. The award scheme was instituted five years ago to reward students of the Colleges of Education offering Diploma in Basic Education who exhibit academic excellence and high moral and social standards.
Picture: The French Ambassador,His Excellency Pujolas Francois (2nd left) interacting with the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K. T. Oduro. With them are the Registrar, Mr. Kofi Nyan (right); Head, Department of French (middle) and Mrs. Francois (2nd left).
Prof. Peter Kwapong of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, UCC has made it to the top United Nations (UN) Expert Scientists who produced a policy-document on Global Assessment of Pollinators and Pollination.
A legal practitioner and Gender Activist, Mrs. Sheila Minka-Premo has stressed on the need to create more opportunities for female farmers to have access to land and other resources to enable them to improve their livelihood and generate wealth. She called for sensitisation of women on their lands rights to secure land tenure as well as strong advocacy to ensure the enforcement of relevant laws that had been enacted to improve the policy framework for women.
