UCC FACULTY OF LAW HOLDS ITS FOURTH SUCCESSFUL ROLL CALL CEREMONY

18 Jun, 2016 By louis Mensah

The Faculty of Law of University of Cape Coast on Friday, 21st of October, 2016 held its yearly roll call ceremony to usher the first year student into the Faculty. The roll call is a unique ceremony meant to complement the University’s matriculation and where students are charged specifically on the ethics and the demands of the law. Students take an oath to comply with the rules and regulations governing the University and adhere to the dictates and demands as well as, obey rules and regulations as junior members of the Faculty. The underlying rationale of this year’s ceremony was to re-echo the fundamental tenets of the Faculty of Law: which is Intelligence Diligence and Service. The vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Professor Joseph Ghartey-Ampiah in his address to the Faculty, students and invited guests present enumerated the history behind the coming into inception of the faculty and made it clear that the Faculty of Law is now of age. This, he said in relation to the fact that the Faculty has, despite the myriad of difficulties bedeviling it, managed to successfully enroll 50 percent of their first batch to the Ghana Law School. He then charged the students to work in groups and make sure that they should not leave anyone of their cohort behind. The fresh students or the “Adornment Class”, as affectionately called by the Founding Dean of the Law Faculty, were charged to mirror the principles of the Faculty of Law, UCC. To wit, fresh students were implored to think critically and also render service to the community at law. Further, the Dean intimated that in pursuit of academic excellence diligence should be their hall mark. The Founding Dean further highlighted some of the successes of the Faculty, thus far while outlining a myriad of challenges that the faculty has faced since its inception, particularly with respect to workforce and used the opportunity to appeal to the Vice Chancellor, Professor Joseph Ghartey-Ampiah and the Provost of the College of Humanities and Legal Studies, Professor Dora Edu-Buandoh, who was the Chairperson for the occasion to help the Faculty in this regard. Ultimately, the Founding Dean stated categorically that the Faculty of Law has come to stay! The key note Speaker, Her Ladyship Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, Justice of the Court of Appeal of Ghana stated that though the study of law comes with several challenges, with commitment and dedication by the students, they would definitely become successful in the noble profession that they chosen to be part of. She urged the fresh students and the continuing students to ask themselves which aspects or branches of law they found interesting and appealing to them as they pursue the course and by that, they will find their passion and thereby the fulfillment they seek. She used her experiences as a student of the law and as a practicing lawyer to inspire the students and guests present at the occasion to aspire for excellence. Prof Dora F. Edu-Buandoh, the Chairperson for the occasion also in her submission made reiterated that fact the students should take their studies seriously by emulating the continuing students who were just awarded for excellence. She also emphasized the need for the students to work in groups. The roll call ceremony is also used as a platform to award continuing students who had distinguished themselves in the course of their academic studies. The faculty of law wishes the ‘Adornment’ class the best in their studies. The Faculty of Law, UCC also wishes to extend our profound gratitude to all who in diverse ways contributed to the success of the ROLL CALL ceremony.

2016 Orientation and Reception Programme

18 Jun, 2016 By louis Mensah

“Beginning the 2016/2017 academic year, the School of Business will have five academic (5) departments, a centre and a unit.”, Dr. Siaw Frimpong, the Vice-Dean said this at Orientation and Reception programme organized for first year undergraduate and post graduate sandwich students of the School. The event came off on Thursday 23rd June, 2015 at CoDE Building, University of Cape Coast. Dr. Siaw Frimpong officially welcomed the students and thanked them for choosing the University of Cape Coast (University of Choice) and the School of Business for that matter. He assured the students that they would never regret the choice they have made as the Faculty and staff of the School were well-equipped to help them finish their programme successfully. The students were advised to take enough rest and be careful with their diet since they needed to be healthy to be able to study. The Sandwich Coordinators and other faculty members took turns to address some concerns raised by the students. The programme is an annual one which is organised by the School to formally welcome first year students of the School. In his closing remarks, the Dean of the School, Professor Edward Marfo-Yiadom urged the students to maintain a healthy relationship with their lecturers and to focus on their studies.

14 Jun, 2016

The University of Cape Coast invites applications from experienced, results-oriented and highly motivated individuals for the position of Provost for the following Colleges which will become vacant on 1st August, 2016.

College of Education Studies
College of Humanities and Legal Studies
College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences
College of Distance Education(CODE)
College of Health and Allied Sciences

Key Responsibilities

The Provost is the Academic and Administrative Head of the College and is responsible to the Vice-Chancellor for providing leadership to the College, maintaining and promoting the efficiency and good order of the College in accordance with policies and procedures prescribed by the University Law, 1992 (PNDCL 278) and Statutes and as may be determined from time to time by the University Council, the Academic Board and the College Board.

Qualification and Experience

Applicants must be internationally acclaimed scholars of professorial status. They must be individuals of stature and integrity with strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, capable of executing the responsibilities outlined above. They must also possess a terminal degree (PhD) in a relevant discipline with over ten (10) years working experience in a reputable university or related academic institution.

For applicants seeking appointment as Provost at the College of Distance Education (CODE), involvement in the management and administration of distance learning will be an advantage.

In the case of Provost at the College of Health and Allied Sciences, the applicants, must in addition:

possess MBChB, MD, BDS and a terminal postgraduate degree e.g. PhD /EdD, or terminal degree in the clinical disciplines e.g. FGCP/FGCS/WACP/WACS/FRCS/FRCP/FRCOG (or American Board Certification in the clinical disciplines)
demonstrate evidence of leadership and service to the health professions and health institutions in roles that are germane to the full functioning of the College as a health professions education institution.
have a strong regional and/or national reputation as an independent expert who has influenced the clinical field. He/she must have demonstrated innovation in approaches to medical education, diagnosis, treatment or prevention of diseases, the development/ application of technology for clinical care and/or the development of novel models of care delivery that influence care at regional and/or national level.
be conversant with the Collegiate structure in the University system.
Must have played a significant role in the curriculum of a medical school

All applicants must also show evidence of the following qualities:

demonstrated capacity to manage a College
ability to foster and promote good internal and external relations
proven capacity to provide strong visionary leadership and innovation
proven capacity to project the College locally and internationally through research, conferences and workshops
proven ability to raise funds to support the activities of a College

(Applicants should be able to complete the first term of three years before reaching the retirement age of sixty (60) years)

Tenure of Office

The appointment, which is full time, shall be for three (3) academic years and is renewable for a second term only.

Conditions of Service

Salary and fringe benefits attached to the position are attractive and will be specified in the letter of appointment.

Mode of Application & Closing Date

Interested applicants who meet the above criteria should please submit applications and a comprehensive curriculum vitae, together with relevant supporting documents and a Three-Page Vision Statement to:
The Registrar, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast
Applicants should request three (3) referees to submit report on them directly to the above address
The closing date for the receipt of applications is Thursday, 30th June, 2016.

We Need to Mainstream Open and Distance Learning Tertiary Education-Minister for Education

07 Jun, 2016 By louis Mensah

Mainstreaming Open and Distance Learning in Tertiary Education is a key strategic option that needs to be pursued vigorously in the country, according to Minister of Education, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang.

It is in furtherance of this, that the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) is working hard to fast track the implementation of the Open University Ghana Project.

The minister said this in a speech read on her behalf by the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Tertiary Education, Prof. Mohammed Salifu at the 48TH Congregation (6th to 13th Sessions) of the University of Cape Coast.

Distance Education as a Tool for Delivering Quality Tertiary Education

According to the minister, the government sees distance education in all its manifestation as the key to delivering quality tertiary level education to the critical mass of the people.

The minister was of the view that tertiary education was perceived as elitist because it remained largely accessible to a small segment of the population. This according to the education minister was so because the capacity to enrol the desired numbers was severely hampered by the continuing reliance on the traditional “brick and mortar” approach to education delivery. “As a result of this, gross enrolment ratio for 2014/15, for example, stood at 14% as against the target of 25%”, she said.

Consequently, Prof. Opoku Agyemang said there were ongoing efforts to support initiatives and investments in technology-enhanced learning to promote distance learning to make it relevant to the labour market.

Creating Access to Tertiary Education through CoDE

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole in his report said the College of Distance Education (CoDE) was established to give the opportunity of access to the teeming number of qualified people who otherwise would have been denied University education.

In order for the college does not renege on its mandate, the Vice-Chancellor said the college has expanded access by opening seventy-three (73) more study centres for the increasing number of applicants desiring to enrol. He indicated the College has begun the provision of postgraduate education at four centres at Cape Coast, Kumasi, Accra and Tamale, with plans in place to open others at Bolgatanga, Sunyani and Takoradi.

Be Good Ambassadors of UCC

Prof. Kuupole said he had no doubt that; the graduates would bring the knowledge and skills acquired during their period of study to bear on the economy of the nation.

“You will need initiative and tenacity of purpose because the market is choked”, he said. He also charged the graduates to use the experience acquired to be at the forefront of the campaign against indiscipline in society.

A BSc Marketing Student, Mr. Sylvester Adreban was judged the best graduating student with a CGPA of 4.0.

UCC Gets Confucius Institute

07 Jun, 2016 By louis Mensah

A ceremony has been held to inaugurate the Confucius Institute at the University of Cape Coast. The inauguration of the centre is the second of such facility to be set up in the country after one at the University of Ghana, Legon. The Confucius Institute programme was founded in 2004 with the central purpose to promote Chinese language and culture worldwide to promote what is referred to as the Chinese soft power. Such centres are always located within an academic environment and are always set up as joint ventures between a Chinese university and a host university. In this instance, it is between the University of Cape Coast and Hunan City University. Welcoming guests to the programme, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole said the institute has come to enlarge and enrich the arena of intellectual debate. Explaining further, he said the Institute would become beneficial to Ghanaians if it was seen as an agent of engagement with our own culture, even as we engage with the Chinese. “The lesson I am trying to point out here is that, the Confucius Institute at UCC is a positive addition to our stock, an enriching overture in the congenial dialogue among cultures”, said. According to Prof. Kuupole, the Institute has come as China’s gift to Ghana as an invitation to strengthen relations with Africa’s biggest trading partner. “It offers us the opportunity of seeing a new way to build cultural capital in consonance with our traditions and aspirations’, he added. The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Her Excellency Su Baohong expressed gratitude to all stakeholders who contributed in diverse ways to make the Confucius institute on UCC campus a reality. She revealed that Chinese values are measured in Confucianism and it was passed on from generation to generation. “The Chinese people have always been peace-loving, “We have a culture of peace and harmony which is at the core of Confucianism”, she explained. Her Excellency Su Baohong, said the path chosen by the Chinese people was different from the colonial expansion rather, it was a win-win cooperation with the rest of the world.She pledged her country’s continued support for the centre to blossom into one of the vibrant Institutes across the world. Ghana’s Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Mrs. Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare, in her speech, mentioned that since the re-alignment of the ministry in 2013 their strategy has been to brand the country with its rich and diverse culture. It was for that reason that the ministry has launched the “Explore Ghana” initiative with the aim to promote Ghana to indigenes as well as international tourists. Mrs. Ofosu-Agyare said the role that Confucius played in the development of China is a testimony for all who were familiar with that country’s history, and therefore the establishment of the centre on campus would serve as a bridge for linguistic and cultural exchanges as well as cooperation in many fields between China and the rest of the world. Prof. D D. Kuupole and Prof. Li Jian Qi signed an implementation agreement between UCC and Hunan City University on behalf of their respective institutions. Later, Ambassador Su Baohong and Prof. D. D. Kuupole unveiled a plaque to officially inaugurate the Confucius Institute at University of Cape Coast.

06 Jun, 2016

In late 2014, the Universities of Ghana and Cape Coast sought the assistance of the International Association of Universities (IAU) to enable them review their internationalization strategies. In response to the request, IAU through its Internationalization Strategies Advisory Services (ISAS) set up a four-member expert panel to assist the two institutions. The main objective of the process was to help the two universities develop strategies to strengthen their internationalisation policies and programmes.

Please click below for the report of the Steering Committee.

report_of_ucc-sc-isas.pdf

IDS Hosts Conference on Public Private Partnership in the Powers Sector

06 Jun, 2016 By louis Mensah

A three-day international conference has been held at the University of Cape Coast with a call on participants to come up with policy-oriented decisions that will improve on the lives of the people.

The three-day conference has experts from Ghana, South Africa and Uganda speak to the theme “Public Private Partnership in the Power Sector in Ghana: Genuine Development Agenda or New Business Deal?

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Provost of the College of Humanities and Legal Studies, UCC, Prof. S. B. Kendie indicated that market-led reforms have been the driving force of the development agenda for countries implementing economic reforms under the guidance of the International Financial Institutions, and in Ghana this has been going on since 1983.

“We have witnessed labour rationalization and retrenchment and wage freeze in several such countries accompanied in several instances by labour agitations and strikes and subsequent informalization of economies”. “The growing informal economy is characterized by low wages and poor working conditions. Many remain outside the tax net, which affect public revenue generation”.

Prof. Kendie said removal of subsidies and imposition of user fees may have freed the national budget of some expenditure but these have also had some negative implications for the poor. Even though Prof. Kendie conceded that the tax net needed to be widened, he said the growing costs of energy and high interest rates were affecting the growth of business, which affects employment generation.

The Director of Institute of Development Studies, Prof. P. K. Agbesinyale said attempts to reform public sectors are sweeping across Africa, but the attempts were generally different from those of the immediate post-independence period.

Prof. Agbesinyale indicated that whereas the earlier reforms aimed at shaping public administration that could spearhead national development, the current reforms aimed at reducing costs and refocus the activities of the public sector, to change the way it works, and to promote the role of the market and the private sector both in the service provision and the economy at large.

Keynote speaker, Dr. Gerard Kesterintimated that democracy could be seen in a double perspective. “It is not a procedure mediating between different political ideologies but is also itself an ideology”.

He said the foundations of democracy has to guarantee the basic values of democratic society adding that that it should establish the primacy of individual freedoms.

Dr. Kester said democracy has to be re-invented in a much richer and specific way than opening ballot boxes once in a not to frequent while, rather if democracy was to regain control over globalized financial capitalism, it should invent new instruments, not just those of the market, and not just parliaments and other formal democratic institutions. “One of the most important issues in the coming years will be the development of new forms of property and control of capital. New forms of participation and governance have to be invented”, he declared.

Turning to democracy and controlled enterprise, the keynote speaker was noted that labour-capital -relations should be linked to the core values of freedom, equality, equivalence and solidarity.

He averred that in the neoliberalism regime, owners do as they please but employees and other stakeholders also belong to entreprise. “Democracy cannot be banned from a place where many people spend a big part of their life and which determines part of their life outside the enterprise”, he said.

The Vice Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole chaired the opening ceremony.

uniBank Donates Computers to R-CAMAT

06 Jun, 2016 By louis Mensah

Officials of both the University of Cape Coast and uniBank have inspected facilities at the Resource Centre for Alternative Media and Assistive Technology (R-CAMAT) at the basement of the main library.

Mr. Julius Braimah, officer-in-charge of the facility conducted the officials round the facility.

Unibank provided an amount of GH ¢43, 000 for the purchase of computers and accessories for use by the visually impaired and other physically challenged students of the university.

Speaking after the inspection tour of the facility, Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole said the physically challenged needed to be supported so that after their training they could be on their own to earn meaningful incomes for a decent livelihood. He indicated that he was particularly excited that “They can do something once God has endowed them with brains”. He thanked the bank for their generosity and gave the assurance that the facility would be put to good use and taken good care of to serve longer generations.

Head of New Business at the Bank’s Head Office, Mr. Richard Osei Anane said the donation is an indication of the banks' belief in Ghanaian institution for the provision of the best of training to the youth. He said whatever they have a profit from their operations; Unibank would not hesitate to use part of it to provide support, especially to the vulnerable of the society.

He was particularly happy that the students are ready to help train others who unfortunately suffer a similar fate as theirs. He called on staff of the facility to adopt good maintenance culture for the machines to serve many more students in the future.

Present at the ceremony was the Registrar, Mr. John K. Nyan, Librarian, Mr. Clement Entsua-Mensah, Director of Centre for International Education, Prof. Rosemond Boohene and other officials of both the library and Unibank.

Centre of Teaching Support Schools Lecturers

06 Jun, 2016 By louis Mensah

The training programme was aimed at enhancing the professional development of the teaching staff by providing them opportunities to a range of andragogic approaches and new trends to support the teaching of courses including the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

In an interview with the Director of CTS, Dr. Douglas D. Agyei said the programme would help participants to develop hands-on capacity building skills in the preparation and use of course outlines during their first contact with students. He indicated that participants would be engaged in adopting effective ways of evaluating students’ progress and providing students’ feedbacks of their performances. In addition, the participants would explore different instructional strategies & basic techniques of teaching large classes for optimal learning as well as the use of ICT tools to promote interactive learning, discussion and thinking in teaching in large classes.

The resource persons for the programme were Prof. J. Ghartey-Ampiah, Prof. Eric M. Wilmot, and Dr. D. D. Agyei.

Prof. Ghartey-Ampiah took the participants through “Effective First Day/Week in Class and Strategies for Assessment and Feedback,” whilst Prof. Eric M. Wilmot made a presentation on “Multiple Choice Items and Essay Type Questions”.

Dr. Douglas D. Agyei handled “Teaching Large Classes and Application of ICT in Large Classes”. He also led participants to explore the topic of “Presentation Application as a Productivity Tool.

The participants indicated that the sessions were very insightful and they had learnt a lot of new things relevant to teaching their courses. They reiterated that the workshop is extended to other lecturers in the University especially Heads of Departments.

Centre of Teaching Support Schools Lecturers

06 Jun, 2016 By louis Mensah

The Centre of Teaching Support (CTS) has organised a three-day comprehensive training programme for newly appointed Lecturers/Assistant Lecturers and Part Time Lecturers of the College of Education Studies. The training programme was aimed at enhancing professional development of the teaching staff by providing them opportunities to a range of andragogic approaches and new trends to support teaching of courses including the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). In an interview with the Director of CTS, Dr. Douglas D. Agyei said the programme would help participants to develop hands-on capacity building skills in the preparation and use of course outlines during their first contact with students. He indicated that participants would be engaged in adopting effective ways of evaluating students’ progress and providing students’ feedbacks of their performances. In addition, the participants would explore different instructional strategies & basic techniques of teaching large classes for optimal learning as well as the use of ICT tools to promote interactive learning, discussion and thinking in teaching in large classes. The resource persons for the programme were Prof. J. Ghartey-Ampiah, Prof. Eric M. Wilmot, and Dr. D. D. Agyei. Prof. Ghartey-Ampiah took the participants through “Effective First Day/Week in Class and Strategies for Assessment and Feedback,” whilst Prof. Eric M. Wilmot made presentation on “Multiple Choice Items and Essay Type Questions”. Dr. Douglas D. Agyei handled “Teaching Large Classes and Application of ICT in Large Classes”. He also led participants to explore the topic on “Presentation Application as a Productivity Tool. The participants indicated that the sessions were very insightful and they had learnt a lot of new things relevant to teaching their courses. They reiterated that the workshop be extended to other lecturers in the University especially Heads of Departments.

UCC FACULTY OF LAW HOLDS ITS FOURTH SUCCESSFUL ROLL CALL CEREMONY