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UCC Organises Send-off Ceremony for National Service Personnel

19 Jun, 2017 By louis Mensah

A send-off ceremony has been held for the 2016/17 National Service Personnel posted to the University of Cape Coast (UCC). The personnel, numbering 750, were posted to the University after completing their tertiary education to undertake their mandatory national service. Organised by the Directorate of Human Resources, the ceremony was aimed at recognising personnel for their tireless work and services to the University. In an address read on his behalf by the Provost of the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, Prof. L.K Sam Amoah, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. K.T Oduro, commended the service personnel for undertaking the compulsory national service to the country. He expressed confidence that the wealth of experiences they had gained from UCC would be brought to bear on their future job. Prof. Oduro urged them to be good ambassadors of the University and diligently exhibit the values of hard work, humility, obedience, respect and duty consciousness in all their endeavours. "It is our prayer that you will continue to be good ambassadors of the University of Competitive Choice by exhibiting hard work, humility, obedience, respect and duty consciousness wherever you may be," he said. The Pro Vice-Chancellor called on them to contribute their quota to the development of their alma mater, in particular, and Ghana, at large. He enjoined the personnel to seek the face of God in all their ways and never allow the scourge of mass unemployment in the country to shutter their dreams. He, therefore, urged them to take advantage of every opportunity that might come their way, regardless of " how little it may seem to them", stressing that " since that could lead to greater fortunes. " For his part, the Director of the Directorate of Human Resource, Rev. Isaac Baafi, expressed gratitude to the personnel for their dedicated service to duty and urged them to be innovative and self- productive even after national service. A service person, Miss Wendy Aniagyei, who spoke on behalf of her colleagues, expressed heartfelt gratitude to management of the University for offering them the chance to serve the country. However, she used the occasion to catalogue some of the challenges, including high cost of accommodation and transportation, personnel faced and called on management to take measures to address them for prospective national service personnel who would be posted to the University. Certificates were presented to personnel in honour of their meritorious services and dedication to duty.

Academic Institutions in Ghana Must Produce Data Science Graduates

19 Jun, 2017 By louis Mensah

An Assistant Director, Centre of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, North Carolina Agricultural and Technological State University, Prof. Kosi Delali Edoh, has stressed the need for academic institutions in Ghana to produce graduates in the area of Data Science.

According to him, a lot of universities in the world were trying to establish new programmes in Data Science to produce graduates for companies that require the services of data scientists for their operations. Prof. Edoh said this when he took his turn to present a paper on “Data Science Curriculum Development and Research” as part of the monthly Seminars organised by the School of Physical Sciences. The lecture was aimed at sensitising members of the University Community on the usefulness of Data Science.

Prof. Edoh said that unlike some universities in the West, no African university currently offered a programme in Data Science. Against this background, he noted that he would like to introduce Data Science programme in the University of Cape Coast to train more students to become fully-fledged Data Scientists. “In Africa, we don’t have anything yet, so I thought it may be a good idea to establish the same thing (Data Science) in UCC.,” said Prof Edoh. He said the programme, when introduced hopefully in June 2018, would equip prospective students with both theoretical and practical backgrounds. 

Prof Edoh indicated that there was a huge potential in the African, adding that the power of Data Science could be harnessed to address some social and economic needs on the continent. Moreover, he said companies in Africa, especially Ghana, don’t have the requisite expertise to analyse data in their day-to-day business activities.

Prof Edoh stated that the proposed programme would target graduate students from various academic disciplines so that they could become experts to analyse data in their chosen fields. He expressed gratitude to management of UCC and the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology for their continuous support towards the proposed programme.

It will be recalled that in 2016, the University of Cape Coast was selected by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program(CADFP) to host an African Diaspora scholar from USA to work on a collaborative project on “curriculum development, research and graduate student mentoring and supervision in data science”. Prof. Edoh led the project, together with Mr. Elliot Kojo Attipoe, a lecturer at the Department Computer Science and Information Technology.  

Ph. D Proposal Defence

18 Jun, 2017 By Anonymous (not Verified)

Doctoral candidates for Special Education and Guidance and Counselling will be defending their proposal come next academic year.

Visit by Central Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry

18 Jun, 2017 By louis Mensah

The new executive of the Central Regional Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry has paid a courtesy call on the Management of the School of Business, University of Cape Coast. The executives included Mr. A. Yoofi Pokoo-Aikens, Chairman; Mr. George Ben Smith, Vice Chairman; Ms. Abena Kankam, Chamber Treasurer; Mr. Samuel Ofori, Executive Member and Mr. George Harry Arthur, Executive Member. The team was accompanied by the Executive Secretary of the Chamber, Ms. Benedicta Anita Mensah.   The main purpose of the visit was to introduce the new executive to the Management of the School and also to explore the possible areas of collaboration. In a brief welcome address, the Dean of the School of Business congratulated the executive and indicated that the School was ready to partner the Chamber to provide technical support and training to young entrepreneurs in the region. He mentioned that, to this effect, the School has established the Centre for Entrepreneurship and Small Enterprise Development and the University of Cape Coast Business Incubator.   The Chairman of the Chamber, Mr. A. Yoofi Pokoo-Aikens indicated the need for the Chamber to partner with the School in order to bridge the gap between academia and industry. A memorandum of Understanding is to be signed soon for the benefit of parties.   The Team of the School of Business that met the delegation included Prof. Edward Marfo-Yiadom – Dean; Prof. F. O. Boachie-Mensah – Head, Department of Management Studies; Mrs. Georgina Asi Owusu – Assistant Registrar/Faculty Officer; Mr. Alfred Ghartey – Junior Assistant Registrar;  and Ms. Cecilia Hayford – Senior Administrative Assistant.  

School of Business Alumni Visitation

18 Jun, 2017 By Anonymous (not Verified)

A team of six (6) made up of the Dean, Vice-Dean and Head of Department of Accounting and Finance, Head of Department of Management Studies, Faculty Officer and two (2) leaders of the Fundraising Team has visited over three hundred (300) alumni in over thirty (30) organizations within Accra and Tema Metropolis. The Dean of the School, Professor Edward Marfo-Yiadom informed alumni that the purpose of the visit was to interact with them and also inform them about the establishment of the School of Business Development Fund. The alumni on their part were very pleased with the visit and commended the Management of the School for the good work. Among the organizations visited were:

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • ADB Head Office
  • UniBank (Gh) Ltd
  • Bank of Ghana
  • Universal Merchant Bank
  • Cocoa Marketing Company (Gh) Ltd
  • GRIDCo
  • First BanC Financial Services Ltd
  • Prudential Life Insurance Gh Ltd
  • Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
  • Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Ghana Stock Exchange
  • Central Securities Depository (Gh) Ltd
  • Ideal Finance
  • Ernst & Young
  • Standard Chartered Bank
  • SIC Insurance Co. Ltd
  • KPMG
  • World Bank
  • University of Cape Coast
  • Ghana Revenue Authority
  • Access bank (Gh) Ltd
  • Omega Capital
  • Tullow Ghana Limited
  • Ecobank Ghana
  • Volta River Authority
  • TTL Capital Ltd
  • FBN Bank
  • HFC Investment Services Ltd
  • Securities and Exchange Commission

Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program

18 Jun, 2017 By louis Mensah

The CADFP offers short-term fellowships to African universities and African-born academics residing in the United States and Canada. The program funds collaborative projects of 14 to 90 days in the areas of curriculum co-development, graduate student teaching/mentoring and research. Projects are completed in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. Accredited public and private universities are eligible in all host countries. A few notes to clarify the way the program works:

  • CADFP has a two-sided application process: a project request to be submitted by the African institution and a scholar application to be submitted by the African-born academic residing in the U.S. or Canada.

You can collaborate with a contact scholar in the United States of Canada on a project request. If you do not know a scholar, please contact the program staff at africandiaspora@iie.org and we can begin searching for an individual who meets your needs.

Visit http://www.iie.org/africandiaspora for more information

CEGRAD Trains Health Workers

18 Jun, 2017 By louis Mensah

A training workshop on the theme “Gender Sensitive Ethical Practice in Health Care Delivery” has been held for health practitioners and managers at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH). The training workshop, which was organised by the Centre for Gender Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD) in conjunction with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the School of Medical Sciences, brought together health managers and nurses across the country. Addressing the participants on Gender Sensitive Ethical Practice in Healthcare Delivery, the immediate past Director of CEGRAD, Prof. Akua Britwum, called on health managers to create a conducive environment for female health workers to enable them to report cases of sexual harassment. She explained that sexual harassment-free environment in healthcare delivery was a pre-condition for quality health services. To this end, Prof. Britwum charged health managers to develop sexual harassment policy to deal with such cases. She wondered why some irresponsible men who indulged in sexual harassment accused their victims of their mode of dressing at the workplace. Citing an example in Pakistan, she said, women who were dressed in burqa -an outerwear that covers the entire body except the eyes and hands, worn by some Muslim women - also complained of sexual harassment, saying the argument about women’s mode of dressing was untenable. For his part, a lecturer at the School of Medical Sciences, Dr. Evans Agbeno, who took participants through Gender and Healthcare delivery, cautioned Ghanaian men to desist from using aphrodisiac drugs due to their harmful effects. According to him, sexual enhancement drugs could be effective but their long term effects could be injurious to the kidney and liver. He advised; “Once there is penetration, it takes an average man 3 minutes to have orgasm, whilst it takes women 8-13 minutes to also reach orgasm. So don’t use these drugs.” He called on practitioners to sensitise the populace on family planning methods to help do away with the many misconceptions that continue to inhibit the use of the methods among Ghanaians. Dr. Agbeno revealed that in 2016, only seven men in the Central Region adopted the vasectomy method without informing their spouses. He, consequently, urged women to encourage their husbands to adopt vasectomy and disabused their minds from the perception they have about their husbands’ decision to use vasectomy. He said there were lot of emerging issues with Gender and Health implications in the country, saying that at the CCTH, husbands were permitted to be at the maternity ward during caesarian section and sometimes they were even allowed to cut the cord of their babies. Giving an overview of the Health Sector Gender Policy, the Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Genecology, SMS, Dr. Joseph Adu, said the policy was introduced in 2009 by the Ministry of Health. He said the policy was to promote professional ethics and human rights among health workers in the delivery of healthcare. Touching on strategies for Gender Sensitive Programme Reforms and Practices, the Director of CEGRAD, Dr. Genevieve Adukpo, called on health authorities to ensure that the activities and outputs of programmes should benefit both women and men by addressing their different needs and capacities. She indicated that CEGRAD had position itself to assist healthcare facilities as partners to promote gender equity and could even assist them to design gender and sexual harassment policies. Speaking on “Introduction to Basic Concepts in Gender”, a Research Assistant at CEGRAD, Ms. Amanda Odoi, explained patriarchy as a system of power relations in which women are subordinated to men. She pointed out family, religion, economic and education as the social institutions that reinforce women’s subordination. She, however, admitted that women also wield enormous powers under patriarchy, in the areas of Female Genital Mutilation, Widowhood rites, Mother and Maid, among others. Each Participant received a Certificate of Participation at the end of the workshop.  

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TRAINING ON THE OPERATION OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV) FOR SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING

18 Jun, 2017 By louis Mensah

A training workshop on the operation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) for scientific analysis and coastal environmental planning is currently underway at the Centre for Coastal Management (CCM). The purpose of the training is to build the capacity of UCC staff in all aspects of UAV operations. The training covers Ghanaian flight regulations, flight safety, UAV handling and flight control, mission planning and image acquisition and post-processing. At the end of the training, participants will be qualified as Primary UAV Pilots and Field Spotters and will have met the minimum requirements necessary to fly the SFMP DJI Phantom 3 Professional UAV.

The training is being organized by the University of Rhode Island’s Environmental Data Center as part of their work to provide geospatial training, support and capacity building for the Sustainable Fisheries Management Project (SFMP) and its partners. The workshop is part of SFMP’s activities and a collaboration with the DFAS USAID/UCC Fisheries and Coastal Management Capacity Building Support Project and the Department of Geography and Regional Planning of the university.

AUBURN UNIVERSITY VISITS IEPA

18 Jun, 2017 By louis Mensah

The Co-ordinator of Auburn University Outreach Global, Ms. Elizabeth Quansah together with Prof. Dr. Forbes, and two Ph.D students, (Kristine Nicole, and Ashley Mills Duffy) have interacted with IEPA academic staff and post-graduate students. This was a follow up on discussions held with IEPA in May, 2015 when a delegation from Auburn University visited IEPA and the Director’s reciprocal visit to Auburn University on 13th March, 2017. The discussions were mainly on the outreach service learning programme being planned between Auburn and IEPA. It is hoped that four post graduate students together with one academic senior member would be visiting Auburn in June, 2017 to undertake the students’ service learning. The Auburn University delegation also donated relevant books to the department.

A Team From IEPA Pays The Deputy Minister of Pre-Tertiary Education A Working Visit

18 Jun, 2017 By louis Mensah

A team from the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) paid a working visit to the Deputy Minister for Pre-Tertiary Education in the person of Honorable Dr. Osei Adutwum. Led by the Dean of the School of Educational Development and Outreach (Prof. Ernest Davis), the team visited the Minster to re-establish the relationship that exists between the Ministry of Education and IEPA. The Institute used the opportunity to present a proposal on ‘Professional preparation for School Leadership’ for capacity building of pre-tertiary school leaders. The Deputy Minister noted that in the 21st century practices, there is the need for proper training of school leadership and this must not to be left to apprenticeship. He acknowledged the fact that IEPA needs to work with the Ministry as IEPA has the mandate to train experts and non-experts in the Ministry of Education (MOE) and other entities both public and private with relevant research-based evidence for educational planning, educational leadership and educational administrative policy development.  On his part the Director of IEPA, Dr. (Bro.) Michael Amakyi, assured the Minister that the Institute was poised to work with the Ministry for the change in our schools, which we all look forward to. The Dean, Prof. Ernest Davis also supported the Deputy Minister’s quest to bring about change in school leadership with the assistance of IEPA.The team that visited the Deputy Minister comprised Prof. Ernest Davis (Dean of SEDO), Prof. Rosemary Bosu (former director of IEPA), Dr. (Bro.) Michael Amakyi (the director), Dr. Boakye-Yiadom (a research fellow with the Institute) as well as Mrs. Alberta A. K. Owusu (the Assistant Registrar of IEPA) and Mr. Daniel, the one in charge of Policy was also present at the meeting. Image Hosted At MyspaceGens

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