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YES-Ghana Presents Grants to UCC Students

02 May, 2018 By louis Mensah

Youth Empowerment Synergy, Ghana has awarded grants to groups of students of the University to implement projects that will have social impact on the lives of people living in some communities in the Central Region.

In all 30 students were awarded a grant of GH¢ 50, 000 to undertake their projects. The students who were in groups of five received amounts ranging from GH¢8, 000 to GH¢14, 000.  

The award of the grants formed part of the Youth Leadership for Social Change project implemented by YES-Ghana in collaboration with the UCC with funding from the Ford Foundation. The awardees known as fellows received rigorous training in leadership for social change through the Youth Academy for Social Change. In addition to this, they were taken through professional mentoring from selected faculty members and industry players. With the award of the grants, the fellows were expected to practically demonstrate the knowledge and skills they had acquired.

At the awards ceremony, each of the groups gave a presentation of the projects they intended to implement in the selected community. The projects included distribution of solar lanterns, construction of footbridge, medical screening, provision of borehole, construction of drainage facilities and community centre.

Speaking at the function, the Project Manager, Mr. Eric Saforo, said the practical application of the skills, knowledge, and understanding gained through the Youth Academy for Social Change was essential to ensuring that the fellows learn to generalize and apply what they had learnt in other situations. “Through this process, youth leaders will become more involved in their communities, and provide real service” he said.

Mr. Saforo said the fellows had proposed innovative responses of social impact to some of the problems facing communities in the Central Region. He said a grant awards committee comprising faculty members and experienced development workers facilitated the process in the selection and designing of the intended projects. He said the fellows would receive the necessary technical support to lead the implementation of the group projects for a six-month period. According to him, the fellows would be “managing their activities, leveraging stakeholder involvement, networking opportunities, continuous learning, and support with financial management and reporting, among others”

The Dean of Students ‘Affairs, Prof. Koawo Edjah, said it was gratifying to note that the fellows would have opportunity to develop their own capacity. He said we were in an era where unemployment had become the greatest challenge for the youth and was hopeful that through the initiative, the students would be able to create jobs for themselves.  “I’m aware that the project is aimed at skills training for empowerment the objective is towards capacity building, creativity and innovativeness of ideas and practicalising what they had been taught” he said.

Prof. Edjah thanked YES-Ghana and Ford Foundation for partnering the Office of the Dean of Students to make an impact in the lives of the students. He was hopeful that the two organisations would continue with the collaboration to create a pool of innovative graduates who would contribute significantly towards nation building.

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Invest in Medicinal Plants to Create Jobs for the Teeming Youth-Prof Opoku-Boahen

02 May, 2018 By louis Mensah

A professor of Natural Products Chemistry, Professor Yaw Opoku-Boahen, has underscored the need to invest in medicinal plants to create jobs for the teeming youth in the country.

Prof. Opoku-Boahen said research had shown that certain medicinal plants could heal chronic diseases such cancer, malaria and HIV/Aids.

“Taxol from Pacific Yew is effective in the treatment of various forms of cancer such as ovarian, pancreatic, cervical, lung and breast cancers” he mentioned. According to him Calanolide A and Canolide B obtained from Calophyllum Teysmanii has been discovered as anti HIV/AIDS drug.

Prof. Opoku-Boahen made these statements when he delivered an inaugural lecture on the topic “Phytochemistry: My Contribution to the Search for Biologically Active Compounds”

Prof. Opoku-Boahen said in many parts of the world, malaria continued to attract attention and therefore it was necessary to ensure the availability of safe and effective drugs for the treatment of the disease. He said “Recent report indicated that the malaria parasite may be developing a degree of resistance to synthetic drugs which may return the quine alkaloids to their position of former importance as therapeutic agents,” he noted.

The Professor of Natural Products Chemistry called for the need to pay serious attention to the study of Organic Chemistry.  “At the SHS level you don’t need straight Organic Chemistry to pass, so most students avoid that particular portion of the syllabus, what they do is just study the nomenclature that’s the naming of organic compounds” he said.

He also said inadequate funding and lack of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment was hampering the study of the discipline in most institutions. “The unavailability of funds makes standards to be compromised and students have also lost interest in the discipline”, he noted, adding that “To train a single person in Organic Chemistry is equivalent to training 5,000 people in other science related disciplines.”

Prof. Opoku-Boahen called on management of the University to make efforts to purchase the needed laboratory equipment to facilitate the teaching and research in the Department of Chemistry. He said with such equipment, the Department would be able to produce groundbreaking research to provide solutions to some challenges affecting the nation in the areas of health, petrochemical industry, water and sanitation and the environment in general. “With a little financial support the Department of Chemistry will become a Centre of Excellence for teaching, research and enterprise, “he assured.

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The College of Distance Education (formerly Centre for Continuing Education), was established in 1997 and upgraded to a college status on 1st August 2014. There are currently three academic departments including that of mathematics and science, business studies and education studies.

The objectives for establishing the College of Distance Education (CoDE) were to provide opportunities for people to pursue higher education; train more professional teachers for all levels of Education in the Ghana Education Service; raise the professional competence of serving teachers and personnel of the Ghana Education Service, as well as accounting and management personnel in civil/public service, commerce and industry. More importantly, the CoDE aimed at providing opportunities for applicants who, even though they qualify for admission, fail to enter the conventional University system due to constraints in physical facilities.

The Centre started with an initial student enrollment of 750 in 2001, using the print-based delivery mode with nine learning Centres in nine regions. The CCE operates a dual-mode system. With this approach, the managers of the programmes ensure that there is no disparity in teaching and assessment between the conventional system and the distance learning system. In view of this, modules used by the distance education students are written by the lecturers of the conventional programmes. These lecturers set quizzes, assignments, examinations, and also responsible for grading students’ examination scripts.

CoDE currently runs programmes in education and business leading to the award of a diploma, post-diploma and master’s degree. Presently, there are 69 Learning Centres across the country, offering twenty-seven (27) programmes in Education, Business, Science, Tourism and Hospitality Management. As at 2014/2015 Academic Year, there were 36,313 students enrolled in all the 27 programmes run by the College.

Centre for Child Development Research and Referral Supports Hearing Impaired Girl

30 Apr, 2018 By louis Mensah

The Centre for Child Development, Research and Referral (CCDR) has donated a hearing aid worth GH¢ 4,000 to Miss Bernice Mensah Damptewa, a Junior High School leaver.

Miss. Damptewa has been suffering from hearing impairment for a couple of years and this condition affected her performance in school since she had difficulty hearing what was being taught in class. As a result of this, she performed poorly at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

Miss Damptewaa was referred to the Centre for assistance and was supervised by an M. Phil. Special Education student, Mr. Ernest Yeboah, who discovered that she was suffering from hearing impairment. Subsequently, the Centre, as part of its services, referred her for audiological assessment at the Centre for Hearing and Speech Services at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW).

Through the efforts of the Head of the CCDR, Dr. Dr. Irene Vanderpuye, a hearing aid was donated by the Director of the Centre for Hearing and Speech Services, Dr. Yaw Nyadu-Offei for Miss Damptewa.

Handing over the equipment to the Miss. Damptewaa, the Dean of the Faculty of Educational Foundations, Prof. Eric Nyarko-Sampson, called for the establishment of hearing assessment centre for the University to support children with special needs.

Prof. Nyarko-Sampson urged the benefactor to take proper care of the hearing aid to prolong its lifespan. He appealed to benevolent individuals and organisations to support children with special needs.

The Director of the Centre, Dr. Irene Vanderpuye, for her part, thanked the Dr.  Nyadu-Offei of UEW, for donating the equipment to Miss. Damptewaa. She called for attention for children with special needs and appealed to government to support special needs institutions to be able to deliver their functions effectively. She used the opportunity to educate the benefactor on the use of the equipment. Dr. Vanderpuye appealed to public-spirited organisations to come to the aid of the Centre to assist children with special needs.

The mother of Miss Damptewa, Mrs. Salomey Gyasi Mensah, was grateful to the Centre especially, Dr. Vanderpuye for the gesture. “My daughter will now hear better because she normally looks at people’s lips to read what they are saying,” she said. According to the mother, she had to scream before her daughter could hear her from afar.

An M. Phil student reading Special Education, Mrs. Mary Osei, implored students to take interest to pursue special education programmes. She said “when students read Special Education programmes, they will know the special needs of students and will offer them broader knowledge in handling children.”

Mrs. Osei admitted that poor salary of teachers in special education was a major factor driving most of their colleagues away from the discipline. She, therefore, appealed to government to adequately remunerate and equip special educators to enhance teaching and learning.

Present was the Faculty Officer, Mr. Kweku Arhin and some national service personnel of CCDR.

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Centre for Child Development Research and Referral Supports Hearing Impaired Girl

30 Apr, 2018 By louis Mensah

Past students of the School of Agriculture, affectionately called AGRICOLAE, have held a three-day homecoming to map out strategies to make their association vibrant.

The homecoming was also aimed at mobilising alumni to support the development of the School of Agriculture.

The event, themed: “Repositioning School of Agriculture as a Centre of Excellence for Education: Agricolae, served as a networking and socialisation platform which afforded members to relive memories of their school days.

Delivering the keynote address, a former Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Ahmed Yakubu Alhassan, called for more engagements between the School and past students. A move, he said, would enable the School get support from past students to advance the vision of the School.

Dr. Alhassan asked members of AGRICOLAE to take measures to address the decreasing enrolment in the school and advised students to have different perception about agriculture. He advised past students to be good ambassadors of the School wherever they found themselves. He thanked faculty of the School for inculcating in them values of humility, truth and honesty during their school days.

Dr. Alhassan urged current students of the School to take their studies seriously in order to achieve greater heights in future.

For his part, the Dean of the School, Prof. Elvis   Asare-Bediako, thanked the past students for making the maiden home coming a success. He reminded them of their shared responsibility to contribute to their alma mater to make the School a Centre of Excellence. He commended the leadership of the old students for planning the event, which according to him would go a long way to boost the morale of the students.

Prof. Asare-Bediako urged them to share their experiences of the Homecoming to their various year group members who were not able to attend to be present at the 40th anniversary celebration of   AGRICOLAE in 2019. He encouraged the current students to join AGRICOLAE immediately they complete school. He told them to emulate the individual efforts of old students, and also endeavour not to turn their back on the School.

the President of the Anglican Technical University College, Prof. Albert A. Addo-Quaye, advised students and parents to discard the notion that BSc. Agriculture was inferior programme and added that there were many prospects for students who pursue such programmes. He urged the past students of the School to give back to the school regardless of their financial standings. “We should give back something to the school. It could be in the form of donation of books, equipment or instituting alumni awards scheme to brilliant students”, he added.

Prof. Addo-Quaye who chaired the function described the theme for the event as timely and charged members of the association to heed to the call by supporting the school in all their endeavours. “Our call is to make sure that we bring something to the school so it can be a center of excellence”, said Prof. Addo-Quaye who is also a past student of the School.

In a short remark, the Member of Parliament for Dormaa West in the Brong Ahafo Region, Ali Maiga Halidu, commended the organisers of the event. He urged the new executives of the association to establish an alumni fund to award scholarships to attract good students to the School.

As part of the programme, deserving students who had excelled academically were presented with certificates.

Some of the activities for the programme included tour to the technology village and farm, special exhibition, Dean’s Ball and Games.

Present at the event was Hon. Sophia Karen Ackuaku, MP for Domeabra Obom Constituency, who is also a past student.

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UCC has Created Opportunity for More Women to Access Tertiary Education

30 Apr, 2018 By louis Mensah

The Deputy Western Regional Minister, Mrs. Gifty E. Kusi, has commended the College of Distance Education (CoDE) for creating opportunity for more women to access tertiary education.

“Distance Education especially that of College of Distance Education-University of Cape Coast has made it possible to bring education to the doorsteps of all and being helpful in maximizing the economic wealth of the country.”

Mrs. Kusi commended CoDE when she delivered a speech at the 4th Biennial   Women’s conference of the Distance Education Students’ Association (DESAG) in Takoradi which was on the theme “Empowering Women for Effective productivity for National Development through Distance Education”.

The Deputy Minister said in currently, “Distance Education has come out as an advantage to women to furnish them through acquisition of knowledge, leading towards new ways of thinking and to be autonomous and liberated”

Mrs. Kusi noted that gender inequality was a serious problem for all developing countries, where majority of women had suffered from social, cultural, political and environmental impacts of development. “Lack of education for more women in our society is the most vital cause behind these inequalities” she said.

In order to bridge the gap of access between men and women in terms of education, Mrs. Kusi said “Government, through our tertiary institutions explores the use of Distance Education to provide education at large scale for individuals in order to help the marginalized groups, we, women who cannot cope up with regular campus based learning because of our productive and reproductive roles”.

In a speech delivered her on behalf, the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Hon. Otiko Afisah Djaba, said the Government of Ghana has recognised that women’s economic and political empowerment were core developmental objectives which could enhance productivity and improve development outcomes for the next generation. “Without educating and empowering women in all aspects of our social, economic and political life, it is virtually impossible to tap their full potentials for growth and prosperity in society,” she added.

Ms. Djaba said her ministry had developed five key policy initiatives to guide the process towards gender equality and women and girls’ empowerment and these include; “the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty, LEAP1000 to improve the living conditions of pregnant women; award of scholarships to brilliant but needy girls in tertiary institutions to study technical and science related programmes.”

Others are “mentorship programmes for young girls in deprived communities; training of head potters in various vocational skills and senitisation programmes on women’s empowerment and their sexual and reproductive health rights.”

The Chief of Essipon, Nana Abuan V, said the uniqueness of Distance Education as women empowerment strategy could be seen from the fact that it had affected so many facets of the social system. She advised the women to study well and indicated that “we are never second class citizens; we can also build a nation through knowledge acquired from distance education”.

Present at the function was the Provost of CoDE, Prof. Isaac Galyuon, Ag. College Registrar, Mr. Opoku Oku-Afari and some senior members of the University.

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Committee on Restructuring of CoDE Presents Report to Vice-Chancellor

30 Apr, 2018 By louis Mensah

The Committee on Restructuring of the College of Distance Education (CoDE), has presented its final report to the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah.

The Chairman of the Committee, Prof. Stephen Kendie, who presented the report, called for the strengthening of the regional study centres as satellite campuses where there would be academic staff and administrative officials to man such campuses. He said the committee made some recommendations after analysing the current structure of CoDE.

For his part, the Vice-Chancellor thanked the committee for the work done. He said the report would be presented to Academic Board for perusal before implementation. He was of the firm believe that the report would be in the best interest of the University.

Other members of the committee were Prof. Kobina Yankson, Prof.  F. K. Amedahe, Prof. J. V. Mensah, Prof. Isaac Galyuon, Prof. Edward Marfo-Yiadom, Dr. Tuffour Kwarteng, Mr. Jeff Teye Onyame and Mr. Opoku Oku-Afari (Secretary).

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