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University Health Services Collaborates with School of Medical Sciences

26 Apr, 2017 By louis Mensah

The Directorate of University Health Services (DUHS) and the School of Medical Sciences (SMS) have agreed to collaborate to improve health care delivery in the University. Under the agreement, House Officers from SMS will undertake housemanship at the University Hospital. Also clinical students from the SMS will use the facility for their training. Again, specialists and Medical consultants from SMS will render medical services to the University Hospital to improve healthcare delivery and expand the services of the Hospital. This came to light when a delegation from the Directorate of University Health Services (DUHS) and SMS met with the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, to inform him of the collaboration between the two parties. The delegation from the SMS included the Provost of the College of Health and Allied Sciences (CoHAS), Prof. Harold Amonoo-Kuofi and the Dean of SMS, Prof. Francis Ofei, while the DUHS delegation comprised the Director, Dr. Evans Ekanem and the Administrator, Mr. Samuel Atta-Yeboah. Briefing the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ofei said since the assumption of the current Director of DUHS, the two sides have been discussing means of improving healthcare delivery in the University. However, he added that provisions in both the 2012 and 2016 revised Statutes did not permit them to collaborate, adding that “no member of SMS is serving as a member on the University Hospital Committee and vice-versa.” The Director of the DUHS, Dr. Evans Ekanem, said his outfit would do its best to ensure the sustainability of the collaboration. He noted that authorities at the University Hospital had embarked on sensitisation exercise to disabuse the minds of staff of the Hospital that the collaboration between SMS and DUHS would pave way for SMS to usurp their functions. He said the Hospital would now serve as a training facility for medical students and also help the Hospital to meet the requirements for accreditation by both the Ghana Medical and Dental Council, and the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons. Responding, the Vice-Chancellor commended both SMS and DUHS for initiating the collaboration which would improve healthcare delivery in the University. He urged them to ensure that the issue of remuneration of medical consultants and specialists were ironed out before the implementation of the collaboration. He called on the delegation from CoHAS to brainstorm on how to generate funds to procure equipment for the building at the Diagnostic Centre. Prof. Ampiah asked them to consider Public Private Partnership (PPP) both from within and outside and added that some units in the University could even avail themselves to partner the College to complete the facility.

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FUSSAG Executive Council Builds Capacity

24 Apr, 2017 By louis Mensah

A capacity training workshop has been held for members of the Executive Council of the Federation of Senior Staff Association of Ghana (FUSSAG) to equip them in the delivery of their duties. The two-day workshop, which brought together members of the Executive Council and various Constituency Representatives, was on the theme “Enhancing Productivity through Professional Behaviour.” The Constituency Representatives are members within the Senior Staff of the University who have been elected in the various colleges, school and faculties to represent members at FUSSAG Executive Council Meeting. Addressing the participants, a Consultant, Mr. John Ato-Mensah, underscored the importance of time and stress management to the participants in the discharge of their duties as union leaders and staff of the University. According to Mr. Ato-Mensah, the Council members should ensure that they do not allow activities of the Union to consume greater part of their time to the detriment of their assigned duties as staff of the University. Consequently, he advised them to balance their time to ensure increase productivity at their places of work. Mr. Ato-Mensah, who took participants through stress management and other topics, said it was an undeniable fact that work and the environment of conditions at the work place cause most of stress. To help manage stress, Mr. Ato-Mensah advised participants to take charge of their thoughts, emotions, schedules and the way they deal with problems. He urged them to refrain from unhealthy coping strategy of stress such as smoking, over eating, recluse, procrastination and using pills to relax. The Chairman of FUSSAG, Mr. Daniel Egyir Arthur, thanked the facilitator and added that participants would balance their time and deal with stress management in the exercise of their duties as union leaders and workers of the University to ensure productivity. He urged participants to share their experiences from the workshop with their constituents. The Secretary of FUSSAG, Mr. Kofi Adom-Yankey, said he had learnt that how to effectively manage his time as a union leader so that it wouldn’t affect his official duty at the University. “It has been very resourceful. I have learnt how to co-operate and work with people within groups,as well as stress and time management” said Mr. Akwasi Karikari, a participant, representing members of FUSSAG at the Sam Jonah Library. Participants pledged to share lessons learnt at the workshop with their constituents and other staff of the University.  

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THE SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES HELD 49TH CONGREGATION, 2017

24 Apr, 2017 By louis Mensah
UCC will Continue to Make Quality Graduate Education a Priority- Prof. Ampiah

“As management, we are set on a mission to make UCC synonymous with higher quality graduate education in the country and beyond”. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah stated this during the 12th Session of the 49th Congregation for the School of Graduate Studies. A total of 2,214 students were presented with various postgraduate degrees, which included 51 Ph.Ds. Addressing the graduands, the Chancellor of UCC, Sir Dr. Sam Esson Jonah said the School of Graduate Studies continues to enhance the intellectual life of the University by enabling graduate professional students to undertake scholarly study and advanced research and to prepare them for professional work. “It is my conviction that the School of Graduate Studies will continue to foster a conducive environment that enables critical, curious, creative, and courageous thinkers, who work both independently and collaboratively, to find answers to significant development challenges confronting the nation.” Dr. Jonah called on the School to be guided by the core values of integrity, dependability, creativity, and innovation and work even harder to position graduate education more centrally and visibly within the University. The Chancellor said, for tertiary institutions to successfully fulfill their functions in the 21st century, they needed to respond effectively to changing needs and trends in education as well as changing information and communication technologies. He told the graduands that more innovative ways of doing business were emerging, and therefore, they should endeavour to be among the “21st century think tanks who engineer such progress”. He reminded them that the University has empowered them with generic and discipline-specific research knowledge and skills, employment-related skills and competencies and were expected to impart positively on their respective communities. “I would also like to recommend that you consider the agriculture sector as you think of establishing yourselves. It is one area Ghanaians have failed to invest into on full scale”, Dr. Jonah emphasised. Presenting his address, the Vice-Chancellor said the school has over the years and in 2015/16 in particular, sought to ensure relevance of graduate programmes to socio-economic and technology development in Ghana and the West African sub-region. “Improved graduate programmes and policies as well as facilities for more effective teaching, research and community engagement have been our stock-in-trade to transform significantly our knowledge base, curricula and mode of delivery”, he stated. The Vice-Chancellor reported that enrollment saw a slight expansion and included students from the sub-region adding “A curious feature of the total enrollment was a shift in numbers from our regular mode to sandwich and distance modes. This signal the need to reposition ourselves as a University to meet the shift in demand for graduate education”. Prof. Ampiah said the impressive statistics of postgraduates presented, reflected hard work and diligence on the part of faculty, students and supporting staff. He announced that work was progressing sturdily on the construction of the new School of Graduate Studies Building and indicated that it would solve the problem of inadequate office space for staff and also provide the needed environment for graduate students upon its completion. The ceremony also witnessed the presentation of awards to deserving graduands and their supervisors. Among the graduates who received award for outstanding research were Dr. Jerry Opoku-Ansah-Ph.D (Physics), Prof. Eric Mensah-Ph.D (Curriculum and Teaching), Dr. Sebastian Eliason-Ph. D (Population and Health) and Dr. Emmanuel Kwasi Abu-Ph. D (Parasitology). The following supervisors; Prof. Joseph K. Mintah, Rev. Prof. Seth Asare-Danso, Prof. Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme and Prof. Kofi Awusabo-Asare were honoured. Others were Prof. Moses Jojo Eghan, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong and Dr. Irene Ayi. Two hardworking staff of the School of Graduate Studies, Mrs. Gifty Dzansi and Mr. Kwesi Anhwere were also honoured at the ceremony. Click to download the Congregation Brochure

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Stakeholders Discuss Establishment of SFM for Agricultural Research and Extension in Ghana

21 Apr, 2017 By louis Mensah

Stakeholders in the Agricultural sector have begun discussions on the establishment of Sustainable Funding Mechanism (SFM) for agricultural research and extension in Ghana at a consultative meeting at the University of Cape Coast. Over the last few years, most agricultural research, production and extension programmes have been funded through the benevolence of donor agencies like World Bank. Currently, the World Bank is sponsoring one of such agricultural project known as West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (WAAPP). The first phase of WAAPP started in 2008 and ended in 2012, whilst the second began in 2013, and is expected to end in 2017. In the light of challenges with financing agricultural research and extension, the Projects’ Appraisal Documents (PAD) of WAAPP mandated each participating country to work towards establishing SFM for Agricultural Research and Extension Service delivery, as part of the exit strategy for the project. In view of this, Agricultural-SFM Committee was set-up in June 2016 to develop a road map for the institutionalization of a comprehensive SFM for Ghana’s agricultural research and extension. Giving a brief overview on “Sustainable Funding Mechanism”, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) WAAP Liaison Officer, Prof. P.N.T. Johnson, noted that a number of projects have been implemented by the Ministry of Food and Agricultural which were terminated when the specific projects phased out. He mentioned National Agricultural Research Programme, Rice Sector Support Project, among others as examples of such projects. Prof. Johnson said funding mechanisms must be well designed such that it will guarantee effective and demand-oriented services and provide empowerment to clients and other stakeholders. He said funding mechanisms should also lead to investment of public funds as well as promoting environmentally sustainable land use practices. He further said it should contribute to better livelihood security for the poor and prevent marginalisation of vulnerable groups. On principles for funding of Research and Extension, Prof. Johnson called for the use of funding mechanisms which promote empowerment, link between financial participation and empowerment and the participation of producers or users in financing extension. He explained that the position of development partners on alternative funding of research and extension was to reduce the scope of state financing and improving cost effectiveness. For his part, the Dean of the School of Agriculture, Prof. Elvis Asare-Bediako, said for sustainability to work, there should be a conscious effort to farm and consume the produce, stressing that “We should farm what we eat and eat what we farm and add value to what we farm.” He said agricultural business should be backed by strong scientific research. He recommended the setting up of an endowment fund; ceding some percentage of the District Assemblies’ Common Fund and support from industries to help establish SFM for agricultural research and extension in Ghana. A similar zonal stakeholders’ meetings will be held in Kumasi and Tamale to solicit their views. After the meetings, the Agricultural SFM Committee is expected to prepare a consultative document for a final Validation Stakeholders’ Meeting in Accra in June from which a comprehensive proposal for setting up SFM in Ghana can be forwarded for the Government for consideration.

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Professor Omototsho: Convert Critical Areas of Learning into Songs

21 Apr, 2017 By louis Mensah

A visiting Professor at the Department of Educational Foundations, Prof. Joshua Adebisi Omotosho, has called on teachers to use songs as part of their pedagogy. According to him, songs have unique qualities which make content stick in the brain more than other form of delivery and therefore asked for the conversion of critical areas of learning into songs for easy recollection. Using himself as an example, he said he tried to unravel the mystery behind why songs, learned more than 55 years ago, were still vividly remembered with relative ease. Consequently, he sang and danced to songs (in Twi) he learnt about five-and-a-half decades ago to illustrate this point. The visiting don was speaking at an Occasional Lecture at the SMS Auditorium on the theme “That Songs are the Most Enduring Memoirs of My Childhood has Implications for Counselling, Research and Some Feeding Habits.” Professor Omototsho,who left Ghana in his youthful days in December 1961 to Nigeria and resurfaced in Ghana in 1996, effortlessly sang some of the songs he learnt at Apinamang in the Eastern Region during his elementary school days, which included “Teacher pon yɛn tɛn”, “Anoma ketewa”, “Apinamang mmofra”, “influenza yɛ yadeɛ bone”, “Yesu medefo”, amongst others. The Guidance and Counselling Professor also did a rendition of the seven steps in counselling, which he has personally composed, and urged counsellors to employ such methods in the discharge of their duties. He commended Ghanaians for their commitment to fight the destruction of the environment and water bodies as a result of the devasting effects of illegal mining (popularly known as “galamsey”). The visiting lecturer said the pollution of rivers in Ghana had affected the quality of the rivers, including River Subrane, which according to him was the cleanest river in Ghana in the 60s. He commended Ghana for its academic promotion methods, dissemination of information through Public Address System, healthy national debates, speed ramps and the cost-effective traditional mourning clothes. He suggested to the University to embark upon an interdisciplinary research into “Asoa”, a local fruit, adding that “Asoa” has good medicinal benefits. Professor Omototsho advised Ghanaians to stay away from starchy foods, food enhancers, fast foods and urged them to eat healthy foods like cocoyam and plantain. In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, said the occasional lecture series was open to all faculty members to share their experiences with their colleagues in the University. He said through pedagogy and learning, “we can use songs to remember things and put them in our long term memory and it will be there forever.” He said most of the times when we learn and put them in our short term memory, it vanishes within a twinkling of an eye. He, therefore, lauded Prof. Omotosho for advocating the use of songs as a means of impacting. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. K.T. Oduro; the Registrar, Mr. John Kofi Nyan, and some childhood friends of Prof. Omotosho during his elementary school days at Apinamang were part of the audience.  

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UCC is Ready to Work with Nduom School of Business and Technology

20 Apr, 2017 By louis Mensah

The Chairman of the Committee for Institutional Affiliation (CIA), Prof. Edward Marfo Yiadom has expressed the willingness of the University to mentor Nduom School of Business and Technology (NSB&T) to provide quality tertiary education to the people of Ghana and beyond. Prof. Marfo-Yiadom gave the assurance when he led a team of assessors from the UCC to NSB&T to acquaint themselves with preparations the institution was making towards formal affiliation and official re-opening. The Chairman said the visit was also to discuss the modalities and offer directions as far as the relationship between UCC and NSB&T was concerned. He indicated that UCC would provide NSB&T with the needed support to become a formidable tertiary institution in the country. “UCC has a track record of delivering up to expectation and therefore, NSB&T can count on us to help you grow to deliver quality programmes,” he added. Prof. Marfo-Yiadom noted that UCC would ensure that NSB&T conformed to quality in all aspect of its operation stressing that “whilst helping you to succeed, we will be strict when it comes to implementing quality assurance measures in all your activities.” He urged them to strictly conform to standards set by the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) and National Accreditation Board (NAB). Responding, the Rector of NSB&T, Prof. James H. Ephraim thanked the team for the visit and commended UCC for the numerous assistance provided his outfit as part of the affiliation process. He was optimistic with support from UCC, NSB&T would officially be inaugurated with its first intake of students in September, 2017. He indicated that the initial programmes to be rolled out were B. Sc. Banking and Finance, B.Sc. Information Technology Management for Business and B.Sc. Information and Communication Technology. As part of the affiliation process the team of assessors from UCC discussed institutional documents such as statutes, organogram, academic policies and regulation, students’ handbook, library user guide, sexual harassment, staff training and development policy. The team also discussed the curriculum vitae and certificates of prospective lecturers as well as funding of the institution. They later inspected physical facilities such as library, computer laboratory, lecture rooms, auditorium, students hostel and offices for academic and non-academic staff. At the end of the deliberations and inspection of facilities, the Chairman of CIA commended NSB&T for the progress made in terms of infrastructure facilities. However, he urged them to make effort to scout for qualified academic staff to handle the three programmes. Members of the UCC team were Prof. Kofi Awusabo-Asare, Mr. Jeff Onyame, Dr. Kenneth Aikins, Dr. George Aggrey, Dr. Anokye Mohammed Adam, Ms. Paulina N. Kwafoa, Mr. Justice Agyenim Boateng and Ms. Joyce Sam.Others were Mr. Peter Thompson Fosu, Mr. Alex Allotey and Ms Joyceline Acquaye. The representatives of NSB&T were Mr. De Roy Kwesi Andrew and Mrs. Sarah Bucknor.  

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Prof. Kofi Awusabo-Asare attends Conference at the Vatican

20 Apr, 2017 By louis Mensah

The Director of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance (DAPQA), Prof. Kofi Awusabo-Asare, was one of the scholars invited by the Vatican to speak at the 50th Anniversary of Populorum Progressio held in Rome, Italy. The conference, which was organised by the Holy See from 3rd to 5th April, 2017, was on the theme, “Perspectives for Promoting Integral Human Development: 50 years from the Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio” His Holiness, Pope Francis has created a new Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, which providentially coincides with the 50th Anniversary of the Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio (26th March 1967), an Encyclical which outlined the Church’s vision of the human person. Prof. Awusabo-Asare was invited to present a paper on the “Role of the Migratory Family in Integral Human Development” at the Third Session which was under the sub-theme “Man-Woman”. His presentation focused on the role of the migratory family within the context of integral human development, as well as some of the possible responses from the Church and humanity. The Holy Father welcomed members to the Conference on 4th April, 2017 and thereafter had audience with each of the Cardinals, Bishops and presenters. Thus, Prof. Awusabo-Asare had the opportunity to interact with the Pope.

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19 Apr, 2017

The Center for Teaching Support (CTS), in commemoration of Ghana’s 60th Independence Anniversary and African Union Day, Presents: “Decolonising Mind and Action, Improving Teaching and Impact in Higher Education: Reflections in Ghana”. This seminar aims to build participants capacity to transform teaching practice, and learning in Higher Education, from one of passive engagement between lecturers and students to active engagement that produces meaningful learning, creativity and self-determination in students of African descent. Participants in the seminar will confront certain debilitative mindsets that militate against quality teaching in Higher Education in the post-colonial period; specifically, negative mindsets and resulting pedagogical actions shaped by the rippling effect of the legacy of colonial teacher education in Africa. Participants will be challenged to disrupt colonial mindsets, which impede meaningful teaching and learning. FIRST SESSION: “Colonial Mindsets in Higher Education Teaching: Influences on Teaching Philosophy, Pedagogical Stance and Teaching Impact.” Speaker: Prof. George K.T. Oduro; Associate Professor of Educational Leadership Development, UCC SECOND SESSION: “Disrupting Colonial Mindsets in 21st Century Higher Education Teaching: The Power of Critiquing Colonial Paradigms and Engaging Reflective Thinking about Thoughts and Action” Speaker: Prof. De-Valera NYM Botchway, Associate Professor of History (Africa and Africa Diaspora), UCC DATE: THURSDAY, 27TH APRIL 2017 TIME: 10.00AM - 1.00PM VENUE: School of Medical Sciences Auditorium, University of Cape Coast THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO THE PROGRAMME

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19 Apr, 2017

This paper takes a critical look at the novel manner in which Danny Laferriere weaves personal, collective and multifaceted imaginary spaces in which his narrator lives, while highlighting the erasure of such an imaginary world through a return to the physical tangible native country. In l’Enigme du retour (2009), the narrator carves for himself a universe in which he resides quasi-comfortably and tumultuously in other to escape the fact that his father just passed on, on the same land where both of them have been living, as Haitians exiled I Canada. In Pays sans chapeau (2007), the focus is on the anti-thesis of the imaginary characteristics of life in Quebec, through Laferriere narrator: the realities of life back home and the changes that settled during the several decades of absence. The notion of ecotone is therefore of paramount importance in this work, where it is used to mean ‘the virtual space between the universe that the narrator create in those two novels and the physical native land, Haiti’. The thrust of this paper is therefore twofold: firstly, to unveil and dissect the various literary features that the author uses in his construction of the ecotone, which is represented as a complex and impressive dream land where sorrows, fears and sadness are nullified and secondly, to scrutinize the various multiple components of the nodal space which, ijn this paper is the mutations or changes that the geopolitical order of the world terms as the north and the south, or the east and the west. The north or west (Canada and Quebec here) which was hitherto synonymous with happiness and abundance is surprisingly reduced to need, want, fear, suppression of sad realities and feelings, as the narrator’s life in l’Enigme du retour shows. The south or east (Haiti in this case) which was associated with all negative traits now has ‘sophistication ’ and opulence, although such good asset lie in the hands of the few agents of imperialism and its local allies as Pays sans chapeau reveals. The theoretical framework guiding this work is the Diasporan Cultural Literacy Theory, propounded by Raphael Confiant et al. in In Praise of Creoleness (1993) where the physical and virtual distance between the Francophone Black Diaspora in the Caribbean on the one hand and continental Africa on the other hand are explored and analyzed as unifying factors, not as a gap or fissure. Key words: Spacio-temporality, Ecotone, Diaspora Nodes, Escape, Homeland

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