The School of Nursing and Midwifery has welcomed the eighth batch of nursing students from Grand Valley State University (GVSU), USA, for the 2020 Study Abroad in Ghana.
The GVSU students who were accompanied by three lecturers are in Ghana for a two-week Community Health Nursing programme in some communities in the Central Region.
The Department of Human Resource Management has held a day's Colloquium aimed at providing a platform for interaction, exchange of ideas among Human Resource experts, practitioners and academia on contemporary issues in the profession.
The 2020 edition of the colloquium was on the theme: "The Role of Human Resource Management in the New World of Work". Participants included academics, HR practitioners and students.
Theatre lovers on campus will get their first dose of laughter and an array of life lessons during the second semester of 2019/2020 academic year theatre season.
This follows the launch of seven plays which will be staged by students of the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the Main Auditorium from 27th February to 11th April, 2020.
The School of Agriculture has held a one-week intensive training programme for pig farmers.
The training programme which brought together participants from Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso was aimed at equipping them to improve upon their Pig Farming Business.
The School of Nursing under the College of Health and Allied Sciences has engaged students of the School to know at first-hand their academic concerns, welfare and other issues confronting them on campus.
The day’s engagement, dubbed: “Students-Management Consultative Meeting”, also afforded Management and faculty of the School the opportunity to familiarise with students, especially the level 100s.
Smallholder farmers drawn from Central and Western regions and other parts of the country have taken part in a short training course in tractor operation, maintenance, and management.
Organised under the auspices of the School of Agriculture, the training workshop forms part of the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences' extension activities to communities around the University and beyond.
The Counselling Centre has held a day's empowerment programme for students living with disabilities on campus to discuss matters of mutual benefits.
The programme, which brought together physically challenged, visually impaired, friends of People with Disabilities (PWDs), and some other stakeholders, was on the theme: “Our World Where Our Differences Make us Special".
The Department of Basic Education has been called upon to collaborate with the government to turn the fortunes of the country around through education.
The Organisation for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) UCC Chapter in partnership with Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD) and African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS-Ghana) has held a forum to celebrate International Day for Women and Girls in Science 2020, under the theme: “Investment in Women and Girls in Science for Inclusive Green Growth.”
The Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) has handed over Teaching and Learning Materials to the Faculty of Educational Foundations.
Welcoming the team, the Coordinator of Sign Language Interpreting Programme, UCC, Dr. Irene Vanderpuye, stated that the purpose of the gathering was to officially exit the collaborative terms between UCC and GNAD from 2017 to 2020. She explained that it was part of the agreement that at the end of the programme, the learning resources would be handed over to the Faculty for teaching and learning.
