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Your Training Must Impact Positively at the Workplace

03 Feb, 2018 By louis Mensah

Fresh students of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Nursing School at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, have been urged to stand out as specialised nurses with the requisite knowledge and skills to contribute towards enhancing quality health care delivery in the country.

The Head of Institutional Affiliation Office (IAO), Mr. Justice Agyenim Boateng, gave the advice when he addressed fresh students at an orientation programme at the School. He noted that they would be expected to exhibit high level of professionalism in their duties to justify the training they had received. “Your superiors will not pardon you if you disappoint them after your two year training as specialist in Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)” he admonished.

Mr. Boateng said that the Ministry of Health granted them study leave to pursue the top-up degree in ENT in order to contribute towards the provision of quality healthcare. He reminded them that the degree they would receive at the end of their training qualified them to work at the level of management in most of the health facilities in Ghana, and therefore, they should be adequately prepared to meet expectations at that level.

On academics, Mr. Boateng told the students that at the end of their studies, they would be awarded a UCC certificate because of ENT Nursing School’s relationship as an affiliate of UCC. “UCC stands for quality, so you are supposed to study well before being awarded UCC certificate,” he cautioned.

The Principal of the ENT Nursing School, Alhaji Abdul Rahaman Shaban, entreated the fresh students to be time conscious, disciplined, study well, attend lectures and practical sessions to enable them graduate with pride as specialists. He expressed gratitude to UCC especially, IAO for providing good mentorship to the School.

Mr. Boateng and Alhaji Shaban later visited some of the lecture rooms where final year students of the School were writing a quiz.

The ENT Nursing School, Kumasi, is a specialised nursing school established by the Ministry of Health in 2002. The School, one of the most esteemed Post Basic Nursing Training Institution is among a few in West Africa that runs a top-up degree programme awarded by UCC.

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FORMER VC DONATES BOOKS TO UNIVERSITY PRIMARY

01 Feb, 2018 By louis Mensah

A former Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Cape Coast, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has donated assorted books to the University Primary School. The School, established in 1964, has named classes after some past Vice Chancellors of the University in recognition of their hard work and commitment to duty during their active service days.  It was against this backdrop that Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang visited the school and made the donation to the school in appreciation of the honour done her. At a short presentation ceremony, Prof. Opoku-Agyemang thanked authorities of the school for the recognition.   She said teachers of the school raised her children and asked God’s unending blessings for  them for being a vessel to impact knowledge to pupils from all walks of life. Prof. Opoku-Agyemang, who governed the University between 2008 and 2012, expressed optimism that the gesture would help inculcate in the pupils the habit of reading to enable them to climb the academic ladder. She encouraged the students to study hard and eschew all forms of negative attitudes that could derail their future ambitions. The Headteacher, Mrs. Georgina Aglobitse, who received the items, thanked Prof. Opoku-Agyemang for the donation and promised that the school would make good use of them. After the donation, the former Vice-Chancellor interacted with teachers and pupils and was later conducted around the various classes by the Headteacher.  

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Fish is the most Heavily Traded Agric Commodity in the World – Prof. Aheto

30 Jan, 2018 By louis Mensah

The Project Manager of the USAID/UCC Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Support Project, Prof. Denis W. Aheto, has said fish is the most widely traded agricultural commodity in the world as compared to other products in the agricultural value chain. “It is extremely important to put on record that fish, over the last couple of years, is the most heavily traded agricultural commodity compared to meat sources, tobacco, tea, cocoa, banana, sugar, among others”, he said.  The Project Manager, said funding from Overseas Development Aid (ODAs) for  fisheries research and productivity in fisheries value chain had declined over the last five years (2010 - 2015) and needed to be improved to complement the increasing funding support for other agricultural local outputs. . Prof. Aheto was addressing a delegation from USAID-Ghana, led by its new Mission Director, Ms.Sharon Cromer, at a workshop as part of her day’s visit to see at first-hand the progress of the Project in the University. Over the last five years, he said, funding for fisheries had declined by 30 % in favour of agricultural food products and forestry.  He continued: “Over the same period, funding volumes have seen a dramatic declined when it comes to fishery research, in particular”. Touching on the Fisheries sector in Ghana, Prof. Aheto said the total fish production of the country was about 400,000 metric tones and added that it was highly inadequate, compelling the government to import fish into the country. He revealed that in 2010, fish import reached 108 million Dollars, thus making it difficult for the country to achieve stability in its foreign income reserve. He added that “fish provides 60% of Ghana’s animal protein requirements and also contributes 4.5 % to GDP”. The Project Manager, who is also the Director of the Center for Coastal Management, UCC, enumerated over exploitation of fish resources, large scale poaching by foreign vessels, large amount of foreign exchange required to import fish to supplement domestic production as some of the challenges facing the fishery sector. On USAID’S Technical and Financial Assistance to the Project in UCC, Prof. Aheto said USAID/Ghana had committed 5.5 million Dollars to the project, with the University contributing 1.8 million Dollars in kind, namely: time, space, electricity, water, material resources, among others. He catalogued some of the difficulties the Centre for Coastal Management (CCT) was facing within and outside the University, including slow pace of physical works, sourcing and procurement, understaffing, depreciation of the cedi and bureaucratic system in boat registration.   He took the participants through an online platform meant to provide scientific information to support policy making in the fishing sector, FishCom Ghana , and some capacity building programmes the CCM had undertaken for the public, including security agencies, journalists, academia, students, government officials, among others. Making a contribution, a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Kobina Yankson, called for support for government’s policy of building a Ghana beyond Aid. “So as a nation our goal is to be developing to the point that we will be on our own” adding that, “Our president calling on us to develop beyond aid is a good call”.  He called for strong consideration of capacity building elements in foreign aid which as a consequence would build the human resource base so as to move local projects beyond aid.        

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Provost Receives New USAID/Ghana Mission Director

30 Jan, 2018 By louis Mensah

The Provost of the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Prof. L.K Sam-Amoah, has received the newly-appointed Mission Director of USAID/Ghana, Ms. Sharon Cromer, at his office. Ms. Cromer, who was accompanied by some members of the Mission, was in the University to introduce herself to the Provost and also used the opportunity to acquaint herself with progress of the project existing between the Center for Coastal Management (CCM) and the Mission.  The University of Cape Coast (UCC), through the Center for Coastal Management, entered into a partnership deal - Management Capacity Building Support Project - with the USAID GHANA in 2014. Under the deal, which is expected to end in 2019, the Project seeks to train personnel to support operations of the Centre in the critical areas of coastal governance, marine affairs, fisheries management and coastal adaption to climate change. Receiving the Mission Director, Prof. L.K. Sam-Amoah congratulated Ms. Cromer on her  appointment and expressed the University’s readiness to work with her as the new director. Prof. Sam-Amoah explained to the delegation the programmes and activities of CCT, including capacity building training workshops for some selected members of the public. He told them that the University would do everything it could to expand the human resource base of the Center. For her part, Ms. Cromer, who was re-appointed as the Mission Director in July 2017, thanked the University for the warm hospitality accorded her delegation. She recalled with fond memories during her service in Ghana as the Mission Director of USAID/Ghana between 2002 and 2007 and used the opportunity to share some of her  successes with the Provost. Ms. Cromer reiterated that she would continue the healthy partnership between the University and USAID/Ghana. She called for collaborative efforts to consolidate the Project so as to achieve sustainable results. Ms. Cromer and her delegation later inspected a refurbished laboratory of the Center, which was funded by USAID/Ghana. At the laboratory, a Principal Laboratory Technician, Mr. Peter Obeng, explained the operations of the equipment to the Mission Director and her accompanying delegation. Ms. Cromer urged users of the facility, mostly students, to put the equipment into good use and advised authorities to regularly maintain the items in the laboratory. Present at the meeting were the Dean of the School of Biological Sciences, Prof. Justice Sarfo; the College Registrar, Mrs. Mildred Asmah; the Head of the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Dr. Noble Asare; and the Director of CCM, Prof. Dennis Aheto.  

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Four Affiliate Institutions Participate in UCC Workshop

27 Jan, 2018 By louis Mensah

Four affiliate institutions of the University of Cape Coast have participated in a workshop organised by the Institutional Affiliation Office (IAO) and the Centre for Teaching Support (CTS).

The workshop which is the third in a series for UCC affiliate institutions was held concurrently in Kumasi and Yendi. It was aimed at building the capacities of lecturers in the four affiliate institutions on assessment and research.

In Kumasi, lecturers of the Ghana Baptist University College (GBUC) and Spiritan University College (SUC) participated in the workshop whiles tutors of Yendi College of Health Sciences, and Animal Health and Production College, Pong-Tamale took part in that of Yendi.

Topics treated during the four-day workshop were “Types of Assessment (Feedback Mechanisms)”; “Multiple Choice Items”; “Research Methodology”; “Effective Project Work Supervision” and “Learning Outcomes/Blooms Taxonomy of Cognitive Learning”. Others were “Table of Specification (TOS)”; “Essay Type Questions and “Preparation of Marking Schemes and Rubrics”, and “Preparation of Course Outline.”

Facilitators for the Kumasi workshop were Prof. Douglas D. Agyei, Dr. Kofi Acheaw Owusu and Dr. Christopher Y. Kwaah whereas Dr. Samuel Essien-Baidoo, Dr. Isaac Buabeng and Dr. Godwin K. Aboagye led presentations in Yendi.  

Opening the workshop in Kumasi, the Director of CTS, Prof. Douglas D. Agyei, said the facilitators would not impose their knowledge on the lecturers but engage them on new trends in assessment and research. He noted that feedback from the previous training programmes indicated that the workshop was very beneficial stressing that “Most of your colleagues from other institutions who participated in the last two workshops were really happy for the depth of knowledge they had acquired which they said will help them to improve on their teaching skills, setting of examinations, designing course outline and supervising students research work.” 

He indicated that through the workshop, the facilitators had also gained a lot of experience from the rich contributions of participants. He urged the participants to cooperate with the facilitators to share experiences and knowledge in the topics to be treated during the four day workshop.

Addressing participants at Yendi, Dr. Essien-Baidoo underscored the importance of the workshop and indicated UCC’s commitment to provide the best mentorship to its affiliate institutions so that they would also be recognized as quality tertiary institutions in Ghana and beyond.  He said “UCC is known for its quality of training and so any institution which is being mentored by UCC should also be recognized as such.”

The Head of IAO, Mr. Justice Agyenim Boateng, who was present at the opening ceremony in Kumasi and later visited Yendi, noted that the workshop was one of the responsibilities of UCC as the mentoring institution. “The Memorandum of Understanding UCC signed with the affiliate institutions mandates UCC to perform certain responsibilities which include building the capacity of staff in affiliate institutions” he elaborated.

At the end of the workshop, the participants called on UCC to regularly organise such workshops to enhance their skills and help them build a successful career in academia.

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Provost Hands Over Vehicle to CERED

26 Jan, 2018 By louis Mensah

The Provost of the College of Education Studies, Prof. Eric Magnus Wilmot, has presented a Toyota Hilux vehicle to the Center for Educational Research, Evaluation and Development (CERED) to facilitate its operational activites.   Established in 1992, the Center, which is the main research arm of the College, has been without a vehicle, making it difficult to carry out  research works and also to woo non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and development partners for research proposals. Speaking at a brief ceremony held at the forecourt of the College, Prof. Eric Magnus Wilmot said the vehicle broke down and the College took a decision aimed at repairing it to assist the transportation of officials of CESED. “We detected that the old pick up for the office had a very weak engine. And so we took  a decision that  we could repair it and hand over to one of  the departments that was in need- because an order has been placed for a new one”, said the Provost. He continued: “ And instead of disposing of this old pick up and get it to be auctioned so that somebody buys it for cheap, we could recondition it so that CERED would become mobile”. Prof. Wilmot expressed the hope that the gesture would help the Center to expedite action on an ongoing project - Secondary Educational Improvement – that would need a vehicle to make CERED mobile, to solicit projects from NGOs to enable the University to attract more funds. He advised the Center to put the vehicle into good use so as to prolong its lifespan.

Receiving the keys to the vehicle on behalf of CERED, the Dean of the School of Educational Development and Outreach, Prof. Ernest Kofi Davis, thanked the Provost for the gesture and gave an assurance that the donation would be put to good use.

The Coordinator for CERED, Dr. Mark Owusu Amponsah, expressed delight at the presentation of the vehicle, describing it as “unprecedented since the establishment of the Centre”.

He said the vehicle would give the Center a greater mobility to pay development partners regular visits.

Present at the ceremony were the Dean of Science and Technology Education (STE), Prof. J.K Mintah; the Registrar of the College, Mrs. Alberta Graham, and the Faculty Officer of STE, Mr. Yaw Mensah Anhwere.

   

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UCC Assessors Visit Potters College

26 Jan, 2018 By louis Mensah

A delegation from the Committee on Institutional Affiliation (CIA) has visited Potters College in Takoradi to assess the preparedness of the College to seek affiliation with UCC.

Potters College (PC) is a new institution that is seeking affiliation to run Diploma in General Nursing programme. 

The delegation led by the Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Education, Prof. Kofi Yiboe Tsivanyo, was made up of Dr. Precious A. Mattah  (Directorate of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance);  Dr. Samuel Acquah  (School of Medical School); Dr. Mate Siakwa and Mrs. Christiana Okantey both of the School of Nursing.

The rest were Mr. Justice Boateng (Institutional Affiliation Office, IAO) and Ms Joyce Sam (Directorate of Internal Audit).

Welcoming the delegation, the President of PC, Mr. Isaac Ekow Aidoo, thanked the team for the visit and expressed the willingness of his management to implement the recommendations of the UCC delegation after the meeting.

On his part, Prof. Tsivanyo explained that the visit was to ascertain whether the College has met the requirements to qualify as an affiliate of UCC.  He called for the cooperation of management of the College in order to make the exercise a success.  “We are here to assist you to start running your Diploma in General Nursing Programme,” he assured.

 The Head of IAO, Mr. Boateng said the visit was in line with the National Accreditation Board’s requirements adding that “UCC as your mentor institution should ensure that you are ready with all the necessary documentation and structures in place before you granted affiliation and accreditation before beginning operation”.

As part of the exercise, the team assessed the institutional documents such as filled Institutional Instrument, statutes, organogram, academic policies and regulation, students’ handbook, library user guide, quality assurance policy, staff development policy and sexual harassment policy. The team also looked at funding and financing with emphasis on financial plan, school fees, owners’ equity loans and other sources of funds.

The curriculum vitae and certificates of prospective lecturers were discussed at the meeting. Physical structures of the College like library, computer laboratory, demonstration laboratory, hostel and various offices were inspected. 

At the end of the meeting, the UCC delegation advised PC to review some of the policy documents; provide office for the librarian; create spacious lecture rooms, refurbishment of the washroom, stocking the demonstration laboratory with additional equipment and appointment of quality assurance officer.

 The UCC delegation entreated PC to implement the recommendations should address the issues raised to enable the College secure affiliation with UCC and accreditation from the National Accreditation Board.

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Vice-Chancellor Receives Bonn-Rhein -Sieg University Delegation

24 Jan, 2018 By louis Mensah

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, has received a delegation from the Bonn-Rhein -Sieg University of Applied Sciences, and I.U.B.H International University, both from Germany, and the University of Nairobi, Kenya, at the Council Chamber. The University of Cape Coast School of Business has had a collaboration with the Bonn- Rhein -Sieg and University of Nairobi since 2012 in the areas of staff-students exchange. Staff and students visit their counterparts to learn best practices to improve on their knowledge and expertise. The delegation was at the University to participate in a project meeting and thought it wise to call on the Vice-Chancellor to apprise him of the results of the collaboration so far. Leader of the delegation, Prof. Dr. Jurgen Bode said he was happy that the friendship had stabilized and, therefore, indicated that there was the urgent need to find further sources of funding to continue with the project. Prof. Bode said it was a privilege to work with UCC since it had been of great assistance and “also opened their eyes to Africa as a continent of great prospects”. He said: “More people now realise that Africa is the future, for next 40 years to come, you cannot ignore Africa and for that matter Ghana”. Taking his turn, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ampiah, expressed his delight to receive the visitors and noted that though he was meeting them for the first time “it’s better late than never”. Touching on the results of the collaboration, Prof. Ampiah said since the project had been a success, it was imperative to continue with the relationship. The Vice-Chancellor said the University would want to share experience and also see which areas they could explore further. Prof. Ampiah noted that he was happy about the positive image that the visitors had about Africa, since there was the need to explore more on the continent to ensure its speedy development. “There is a lot that we can do in Africa, looking at the different ways of doing things to ensure that we move faster in our development as a people. We have to consider cross- fertilization of ideas, especially South-South cooperation, since we have dwelt much on North-South for far too long”, he stated. Prof. Ampiah reiterated the need to examine other sources of funding the project, adding: “In our own small way will be able to contribute to the project to make it sustainable”. He charged the Dean of International Education, Prof. Rosemond Boohene to broaden the relationship by incorporating other areas apart from entrepreneurship and see how best to rope in I. U. B. H International University into the collaboration. Other members of the delegation included the Rector, I. U. B. H International University, Germany, Prof. Dr. Peter Thuy; Project, Leader, GAUP, University of Nairobi, Kenya, Dr. Jostus Munyoki; Project Manager, HDCS, Germany, Sonja Keller, and Project Coordinator, UCC, Phanuel Wunu. Also present were the Director, Centre for Teaching Support, Prof. Douglas D. Adjei and the Acting Director, Public Affairs, Major (retd.) Kofi Baah Bentum.      

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23 Jan, 2018

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UCC Wins 25th GUSA Games

22 Jan, 2018 By louis Mensah

The University of Cape Coast , UCC, has won a total of 38 gold, 25 silver and 14 bronze medals to emerge champions of the 25th  Ghana Universities Sports Association (GUSA) Games held at Tamale. GUSA Games, organised biennialy at a selected public University, is aimed amongst other things at selecting potential athletes to represent GUSA at any pending Federation of African Sports games (FASU Games) and International University Sports Federation games (FISU Games). The participating universities fiercely competed in athletics, hockey, tennis, soccer, basketball, badminton and volleyball. The host institution, University for Development Studies (UDS), placed second with 11 gold, 13 silver and 9 bronze, whilst the University of Ghana came third with 5 gold, 10 silver and 22 bronze. The University of Education,Winneba, had 5 gold, 11 silver and 3 bronze to place fourth, with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology taking the fifth position with 4 gold, 5 silver and 3 bronze. The University of Energy and Natural Resources managed to pick 1 bronze to secure the sixth position, and the University of Professional Studies, Accra, as well as  the University of Mines and Technology failed to pick a medal at the competition. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor of UDS, Prof.  Seidu Al-hassan, speaking at the closing ceremony,  congratulated Team UCC  on its hard-earned success and lauded the other participating universities for their relentless efforts. He commended the sports men and women for their show of sportsmanship and comportment throughout the competition. Prof.  Al-hassan used the opportunity to appeal to management of universities to offer incentives such as scholarships to sports men and women to fully realise their potentials.  

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