This is how some members of DFAS spent their holiday last Monday. It was an amazing sight at a coastal community near Accra, where oyster fishing is a major livelihood option. Development Action Association (DAA), USAID/GHANA Sustainable Fisheries Management Project (SFMP) and the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (DFAS) interacted with women who are actively involved in the oyster business, harvesting the West African mangrove oyster from oyster beds in the Sakoma lagoon. The visit was an eye opener to many opportunities for research and industry.
The Faculty of Law of University of Cape Coast on Friday 23rd September, 2016 graduated its first batch of Law students. All the students were awarded the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree. The faculty graduated all the 49 students who enrolled as the first batch with eight (8) making first class honours, Twenty-one (21) making second class upper category, 15 making second class lower division, four students made a third class and one student making a pass. The pioneer batch also made tremendous success with about 50% of the total student body making it to the Ghana Law School.
“Beginning the 2016/2017 academic year, the School of Business will have five academic (5) departments, a centre and a unit.”, Dr. Siaw Frimpong, the Vice-Dean said this at Orientation and Reception programme organized for first year undergraduate and post graduate sandwich students of the School. The event came off on Thursday 23rd June, 2015 at CoDE Building, University of Cape Coast.
Mainstreaming Open and Distance Learning in Tertiary Education is a key strategic option that needs to be pursued vigorously in the country, according to Minister of Education, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang.
It is in furtherance of this, that the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) is working hard to fast track the implementation of the Open University Ghana Project.
A ceremony has been held to inaugurate the Confucius Institute at the University of Cape Coast. The inauguration of the centre is the second of such facility to be set up in the country after one at the University of Ghana, Legon.
A three-day international conference has been held at the University of Cape Coast with a call on participants to come up with policy-oriented decisions that will improve on the lives of the people.
The three-day conference has experts from Ghana, South Africa and Uganda speak to the theme “Public Private Partnership in the Power Sector in Ghana: Genuine Development Agenda or New Business Deal?
Officials of both the University of Cape Coast and uniBank have inspected facilities at the Resource Centre for Alternative Media and Assistive Technology (R-CAMAT) at the basement of the main library.
Mr. Julius Braimah, officer-in-charge of the facility conducted the officials round the facility.
Unibank provided an amount of GH ¢43, 000 for the purchase of computers and accessories for use by the visually impaired and other physically challenged students of the university.
The Centre of Teaching Support (CTS) has organised a three-day comprehensive training programme for newly appointed Lecturers/Assistant Lecturers and Part Time Lecturers of the College of Education Studies.
The training programme was aimed at enhancing the professional development of the teaching staff by providing them opportunities to a range of andragogic approaches and new trends to support the teaching of courses including the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).