The School of Business has awarded two hundred and nine (299) students at its Dean’s awards ceremony held at the University of Cape Coast.

Instituted in the 2008/2009 academic year, the ceremony is aimed at recognising students at levels 200, 300 and 400 for obtaining Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.6 and above per academic year.

A level 400 Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) student, Atitso Emmanuel Mawuli, with a CGPA of 4.0, was the toast of the occasion.

The awardees received certificates for their outstanding performances.

Addressing the ceremony, the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to Ghana, HE Hilton John Mitchell, explained that employers were facing uphill task to recruit reliable, trusted, committed and loyal human resource.

“The biggest headache employers face today is the right, honest reliable and committed human resource. This is bigger than any financial hurdle that employers have” he noted.

 Therefore, HE Mitchell, who was the Guest Speaker, encouraged students to pursue excellence and uphold the virtues of integrity, patience, perseverance, transparency and honesty to succeed in the journey of life.

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Some students at the awards

He advised student leaders to eschew dubious means of attaining wealth and use their positions to serve their colleagues. He also admonished students to be wary of the friends they kept because that could influence life and alter their decisions, while urging them to use their time responsibly.

Congratulating the students for the feats, HE Mitchell entreated them to pursue their goals with diligence and eschew shortcuts to success and advised them to aspire to be outstanding in all endeavours of life.

For his part, the Dean of the School of Business, Prof. John Gatsi, said the School would not relent on its efforts to train and produce “fit-for- purpose” graduates who can work in multi-cultural environments to build interpersonal skills, Innovation and data skills.”

He said the School had introduced a two (2) hour credit course – Professional Development Skills - at level 400 to consolidate various skills needed in industry and the world of work.

Prof. Gatsi announced that a new undergraduate programme was in the offing in the area of BCOM Financial Engineering.

The Dean hailed professional bodies for the support towards the School and indicated that the School would work in concert with the bodies to get database with past students of the School who enroll on their professional courses.

“We are now working with professional bodies to create database for the number of our students, especially fresh graduates who pass professional exams for our records,” he observed.

The Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Prof. Sarfo Sarfo-Kantankah, chaired the event.

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, ACCA, has handed over a state-of-the-art Resource Centre to the School of Business, University of Cape Coast.

The Centre will help students prepare adequately towards the professional examination of ACCA.

At the inauguration, the Provost of the College of Humanities and Legal Studies, Prof. Kwame Osei Kwarteng, expressed gratitude to ACCA for the gesture and noted that the facility would enhance research, teaching and learning.

He said it was worthy of note for academics to liaise with industry and professional bodies to build the capacities of students.

The Provost advised users of the Centre to maintain it properly to prolong its life span.

For his part, the Business Development Manager of ACCA, Mr. Gameli Datsomor, said the students of UCC always performed creditably in the ACCA examination.

“From the records of ACCA, the University of Cape Coast is a great pillar to reckon with when it comes to our exams. ACCA has global exams that students across sit and we are happy to say UCC has made the motherland proud with UCC students hitting top or second globally”, he added.

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Provost of CHLS, Prof. Osei Kwarteng, inaugurating the facility. With him are the Dean of the School of Business, Prof. John Gartchie Gatsi (clapping) and Business Development Manager of ACCA, Mr. Gameli Datsomor

Mr. Datsomor urged students and faculty to take advantage of the facility to expand their knowledge in accounting.

The Dean of the School of Business, Prof. John Gartchie Gatsi, in a brief remark, lauded ACCA for the facility and noted that the Centre would spur students on to achieve greater heights in any professional examination.

Present at the inauguration were the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Prof. Sarfo Sarfo Kantankah, as well as members of faculty and students of the School.

Source: Documentation and Information Section Section-UCC

A lecturer at the Department of Basic Education, Dr. Joyce Esi Tawiah, has

underscored the need for teachers to turn their classrooms into innovative environments

to bring out the best in their students.

According to her, teachers should do away with the one-way method of teaching where

students were forced to swallow hook, line and sinker approach of teaching which

defeats the implementation of the new standard curriculum introduced by the Ghana

Education Service.

 “…Students come to school with fount of knowledge, but when they (come to school)

because of the one way nature of teaching, we take this knowledge from them and we

try to give them ours. If we make teaching and learning interactive, students will learn

from teachers, teachers will learn from students” she said.

Dr. Tawiah was speaking at a training workshop for teachers in Adopted Low

Performing Schools in the Central Region on the topic, “The Current Curriculum and its

Effective Implementation”

The workshop was aimed at building the capacities of the teachers with the right

knowledge to implement the Standard Based Curriculum.

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 A section of the participants

The workshop was organised by the Centre for Teacher Professional Development and

the Department of Business and Social Science Education of the University of Cape

Coast.

Dr. Joyce Esi Tawiah urged teachers to embrace Creative Pedagogy to promote a

creative teaching methodology and creative learning environment, as well as to

inculcate in learners the passion for lifelong learning.

To implement Creative Pedagogy in the classroom, she explained the importance of

Project-Based instruction to teachers to ensure their students were problem solvers.

“In their quest to solving problems, learners investigate, explore, research and engage

in small collaborative groups. This type of learning helps learners gain the skills and the

motivation needed to succeed in the complex world” Dr. Tawiah added.

She mentioned Think-Pair-Share, Brainstorming/Game storming, Board Rotation, as

well as Roll and Read, Write and Explain as some of the strategies for enacting

Creative Pedagogy.

The Director of Centre for Teacher Professional Development, Dr. Bernard Sekyi

Acquah, in his welcome address, said the Departments in the College of Education

Studies had adopted low performing schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis to ensure

students take their studies seriously to perform honourably in the Basic Education

Certificate Examination.

 According to him, a base was conducted by the College and the finding was that

teachers in the Adopted Low Performing Schools were facing difficulties in

implementing the Standard Based Curriculum.

Hence, the workshop was part of the measures taken by the College to deal with the challenges facing teachers.

The workshop was also attended by School Improvement Support Officers, Chief

Monitors, as well as Head teachers.

The beneficiary schools were Effutu Mampong Basic School, St. Cyprian Anglican Basic

School at Effutu and Philip Quaicoo Boys Basic School in Cape Coast.

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC