Dear Partner of Varna University of Management,
I am pleased to inform you that this summer VUM will initiate the first VUM EU Summer School targeted at VUM full-time and incoming exchange students from VUM partner universities around the world.
I am emailing to invite your students on the Master and undergraduate levels to join our Summer School for a period of 2 or 3 or 4 weeks or for its whole duration of 3 months between 1st June and 31st August 2016.
Having students from your institution will certainly contribute to the diverse multicultural student community we will have at the VUM EU Summer School. So far we have registered student participants from more than 15 countries around the world including Russia, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lebanon, Jordan, Georgia, Armenia etc. We will also welcome visiting professors from the USA, France, India, Kazakhstan etc.
During the VUM EU Summer School we will offer various courses targeted at undergraduate and Master students in the fields of Business, Management, Administration and Tourism. All courses will be delivered exclusively in English.
In the attached promotional materials you could find a list of courses to be taught along with the relevant periods of teaching as well as the minimum number of ECTS to be obtained. Please, note the students will be awarded additional 1- 1.5 ECTS for each of the listed courses, provided they prepare and submit an additional course work or assignment.
The following tuition fees apply to the VUM EU Summer School depending on the duration of the student's participation in it:
2 weeks: 550 EUR
3 weeks: 675 EUR
4 weeks: 800 EUR
6 weeks: 1050 EUR
2 months: 1300 EUR
3 months: 1550 EUR.
Costs for accommodation amount to 6 EUR/night in a double room in our new and modernly equipped student house in VUM campus in Dobrich.
I would be very grateful if you could circulate the attached brochure among your students and may be publish it on your website or facebook page.
I am also available to discuss with you the VUM EU Summer School opportunities via skype. My skype account is titoncheto6789, please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Christina
We kindly inform our staff and cherished clients that the Hospital is commencing an ANAESTHESIA CLINIC for clients scheduled for elective surgery on every Monday, within the time; 8:00am-12:00noon, at the ECG room. The following is the full schedule for the clinic for 2016. MONTH ANAESTHETIST AT THE CLINIC MARCH MR. ALEX AFRIFA DARTEH APRIL MR. EUGENE ANTWI BOASIAKO MAY MR. SETH N. YEBOAH JUNE MR. ALEX AFRIFA DARTEH JULY MR. SETH N. YEBOAH AUGUST MR. EUGENE ANTWI BOASIAKO SEPTEMBER MR. ALEX AFRIFA DARTEH OCTOBER MR. EUGENE ANTWI BOASIAKO NOVEMBER MR. SETH N. YEBOAH DECEMBER MR. ALEX AFRIFA DARTEH CLINIC TIME: 8AM – 12NOON DAY: EVERY MONDAYS CLINIC VENUE: ECG ROOM-UCC HOSPITAL CONTACTS MR. ALEX AFRIFA DARTEH: 0208181339 MR. EUGENE ANTWI BOASIAKO: 0248795009 MR. SETH N. YEBOAH: 0203914855
The School of Business has presented Certificates of Appreciation to National Investment Bank, GCB Bank Limited, the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana), Jeremiah 33:3 Enterprise and ATL FM for sponsoring the 2015 Dean's Award. Presenting the certificates, the Vice-Dean of the School, Dr. Frimpong Siaw and the Head of Department for Management Studies, Mr. F. O. Boachie-Mensah expressed their profound gratitude to the sponsors for their support. The sponsors, on the other hand, complimented the school for the good work and assured it of their continuous support.
The School of Business has presented Certificates of Appreciation to National Investment Bank, GCB Bank Limited, The Institute of Chartered Accountants (Ghana), Jeremiah 33:3 Enterprise and ATL FM for sponsoring the 2015 Dean's Award. Presenting the certificates, the Vice-Dean of the School, Dr. Frimpong Siaw and the Head of Department for Management Studies, Mr. F. O. Boachie-Mensah expressed their profound gratitude to the sponsors for their support. The sponsors on the other hand complimented the school for the good work and assured it of their continuous support.
The Minister for Education, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has toured some on-going projects at the University of Cape Coast.
Projects sites visited by the minister and her team were the new Central administration complex, Science complex annex building and 2 No. classroom and library projects at the Medical School village.
Welcoming the minister and her entourage, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole expressed management’s profound gratitude to the minister and her team for checking on the university as well as apprising themselves of the state of some building projects.
The Minister’s team comprised the Chief Director of the Ministry, Mr. Ernest Cobbinah, the Cape Coast Metropolitan Chief Executive Officer, Ms. Priscilla Arhin and other officials from the Ministry of Education.
Prof. Kuupole said even though some of the projects have been prioritized to facilitate their early completion, most of the contractors were constrained financially.
“We are happy that you are here to learn things at first hand and see how best we can find solution to these problems’.
The Minister for Education, on her part said the projects could be re-prioritized for resources to be concentrated on one or two of them for successful and early completion.
Prof. Opoku-Agyemang said she was particularly happy that GETfund has undertaken to fund the building of the School of Graduate Studies complex.
“I am happy that we have taken this step even though funds are so scarce, we still need to get something going”. She said special efforts needed to be taken to support the system to make graduate work a little more flexible for our students”.
She called on contractors executing the various projects to expedite work to have them completed on time.
A Professor of Environmental Chemistry, Prof. David Kofi Essumang of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Cape Coast, has stated, that pesticides have become an inevitable food additive in Ghana.
The eminent chemistry scholar, made the above statement when he delivered his inaugural lecture on the theme An Environment In A “DITCH” at the university.
The lecture highlighted the causes, effects and some management strategies to deal with Ghana’s environmental challenges. Some of the environmental challenges facing the country include waste management, legal and illegal mining, logging deforestation soil, water and air pollution. Others are the destruction of biodiversity, desertification, climate variability and change, mismanagement of chemicals and industrial discharges.
Prof. Essumang described the environment as “everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth” and added that it becomes polluted when micro-organisms, chemicals, toxic substances, waste and waste water are introduced into the air and water bodies. “We depend on the environment and the environment depends on us”, he said. “We all need to work together to solve the problem of environmental pollution since we are all at risk”, he declared.
It came to light during the lecture that the use of pesticides has become so pervasive and causing a lot of damage to the environment and food crops such as watermelon and okro sold in the open market.It was revealed that exposure to pesticides could result in Neurological disorders, Parkinson’s diseases, Childhood Leukemia, Lymphoma, Asthma and many more.
Looking at the trend of Pesticides use in Ghana, Prof. Essumang indicated that even though the use of DDT for example has been banned for the past twenty years it was still being used. “DDT existence in the Ghanaian environment shows that manufactures conceal the chemical in their products smuggled through our porous boarders”.
He said research has shown that systemic pesticides get into the plant, saying “When we make the plant itself poisonous to predators, one has to wonder what (or who) else it’s poisoning”. He called for proper inventory of all chemicals used in Ghana since it has been realised that most of them have not been registered.
He lamented the wanton destruction of wetlands in the country by developers without any regard to its consequences to the environment. He said every water flows into water and “God in his wisdom designed the system to be self-cleansing so we have wetlands to sanitise or remove chemicals in the water before it gets into rivers. Wetlands remove heavy metal pollutants by trapping the sediments and holding it”.
Prof. Essumang called for a change in our environmental policy since it lacks direction. “The policy does not have specific indicators that can be measured over a time frame. There is also no indication in the policy showing government commitment towards the attainment of the goals in the document”. He advocated for Environmental education to be incorporated properly in the educational system and also a second look given to mining activities in Ghana.
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) and the Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) Programme has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to review the Diploma in Basic Education Curriculum for Colleges of Education in Ghana.
The MoU forms the framework for a review of the Diploma in Basic Education Curriculum, based on the current policy requirements. T-TEL will offer the Institute of Education of the University of Cape Coast support to review and reform the DBE as required by the recently developed Teacher Standards, and to reflect international best practices.
Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) is a four-year Government of Ghana programme, supported by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development.
Signing on behalf of the UCC, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole expressed the University’s firm commitment towards promoting teacher education in the country through the Institute of Education. He noted that the MoU would contribute towards enhancing the training of competent teachers to handle pupils at the basic level.
The National Programme Manager of T-TEL, Mr. Akwasi Addae-Boahene who signed on behalf of his organisation said UCC has always been on the forefront in terms of teacher education in Ghana and therefore, the collaboration was a step in the right direction.
Mr. Addae-Boahene who is also a member of the UCC Council expressed confidence that the partnership between the two institutions would help improve the curriculum of the thirty eight (38) public and eight (8) private Colleges of Education in Ghana.
Present at the signing ceremony were the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K. T. Oduro, Registrar, Mr. John Kofi Nyan, Provost of the College of Education, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah and Director of the Institute of Education, Prof. Fredrick Ocansey.
All Staff and Students of the Department of Ghanaian Languages and Linguistics are cordially invited to the Staff and Students Consultative Meeting for the Second Semester of the 2015/16 academic year. Time: 10:30am Venue: Faculty of Arts Conference Room Date: 7th April, 2016 Come and interact with the faculty of the department!
The Deputy Director of the Medical and Dental Council, Dr. Divine Ndonbi Banyubala has called on policy makers to pay attention to cultural dynamics of society before they come up with rules and regulations.
This was contained in a presentation made on his behalf by Dr. Justice Bawole of the University of Ghana Business School at the opening of the 2nd Faculty of Arts Colloquium with the theme “The Humanities and Indigenous Knowledge In Health”.
In her welcome address, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Prof. Dora F. Edu-Buandoh said the colloquium was the faculty’s way of collaborating with medical practice to find answers to some critical questions in that area.
Opening the colloquium, Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole noted that there was the need to integrate traditional and orthodox medicine since “we do not have to act as if we do not have any indigenous knowledge of our own medicine”. “We are running to them every day, it means they are there and therefore the linkage is already there’.
Prof. Kuupole advocated for the theme to be further developed with those in Sociology, Information Technology and Medicine to help government formulate policies that would impact society.
Dr. Banyubala who was the keynote speaker for the colloquium indicated for example that human organ and tissue transplantation was one biotechnological advancement that has for over half a century presented a number of ethical, legal, social, cultural, clinical and economic challenges.
For this reason, Dr. Banyubala said, countries starting or developing transplantation programmes needed adequate legal and professional frameworks to govern human organ donation and transplantation together with effective and transparent regulatory oversight systems.
In the case of Ghana, Dr. Banyubala said the first test transplant involving living related donors in Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has been conducted in the absence of any specific legislation on organ donation and transplantation activities. “Mr. Chairman, our immediate challenge, however, is whether or not in the Ghanaian socio-legal context we could successfully ground our policy choices both on the pursuit of our basic goal of maximizing organs for transplant and respecting the cultural rights of the people as guaranteed under the 1992 constitution”.
Dr. Banyubala called for the avoidance of policy choices that may appear theoretically alluring but which nonetheless have a high likelihood of offending sensibilities and therefore more likely than not to create deep-seated public resentment. He said the strong protection accorded the traditional Ghanaian family coupled with the entrenched nature of cultural rights in the 1992 constitution to mean that a regulatory system purporting to govern the retention and use of (deceased) human biomaterials must take the wishes of the deceased and their families into account.
He submitted that respecting the interest of the dead by safeguarding their reputation at custom as ancestors is a cultural right that a transplant policy that hopes to have social legitimacy in the Ghanaian traditional setting must address. He noted that whether or not we happen to believe in sainthood or ancestorship, indigenous knowledge when sensitively and open-mindedly explored might illuminate key health sector policies such as organ and tissue donation for transplantation and science research.
The Counseling Centre of the University has organised its maiden Counselling Awareness Week under the theme “Counselling: An Effective Tool for Promoting the Academic, Career and Socio-Personal Development of Students”.
Opening the week-long programme, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole, said despite the fact that counselling played a critical role in the lives of students, only a few seek professional assistance when they experience problems. “Students shy away from counselling due to the fear of stigmatization”. He recommended intense public education as a means of reducing stigma and limited knowledge associated with seeking counselling.
Prof. Kuupole called on Counsellors to organize seminars, workshops and radio programmes to educate students and staff about the values of counselling services. According to him, experience has shown that individuals were more willing to seek counselling when they were encouraged by their friends and family members to go for professional assistance.
The Vice-Chancellor commended the Counselling Centre for instituting the awareness week to educate the university community on their activities and programmes as well as the opportunities available to both students and staff. He therefore called on the general public not to wait till they encountered problems before they sought counselling.
The Director of the Centre, Prof. Godwin Awabil noted that information shared with a professional counsellor would not be disclosed to any third party without the consent of the client. He therefore urged all to have confidence in the counsellors and take advantage of the opportunities at the centre. It was his expectation that the week celebrations would lead to a greater understanding of the value of counselling and prevent the psychological barriers that inhibit seeking of professional counselling.
The Provost of the College of Education Studies, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah chaired the function.