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UCC Security Personnel Attend Training

15 Oct, 2020 By louis Mensah

The Directorate of Legal Consular and General Services, in collaboration with Forensic Investigation for National Development (FIND Ghana), has held a three-day training workshop for security personnel of the University. 
    
The security personnel were trained on General Security, Emergency Medicine, Criminal Psychology, Substance Abuse, Crime Scene Management, and Bioterrorism.

Skills and Competence

In his address, the Chairman of Campus Security and Safety Committee, Dr. Akwasi Ayanful, noted that security on the University campus was not at its best hence, there was the need to enhance the skills and competences of the security guards. He entreated the security personnel to take the workshop seriously to acquire knowledge to carry out their duties efficiently.  
The Director of the Human Resource, Rev. Isaac Baafi Sarbeng, informed participants that the training was organised purposely for them to acquire knowledge and skills to perform their duties well. “We want you to exhibit very good conduct and be disciplined in your work,” he urged. 

Topics

The security personnel were taken through how to conduct themselves while on duty, values they were to exhibit, and law and security.  There were practical presentations on how to administer first aid in various situations such as shocks, bleeding, choking how to administer CPR.

Present at the programme was the Director of Legal Consular and General Services, Mrs. Alberta Y. Graham; the Chief Security, DCOP Patrick Adusei Sarpong (rtd);  the Project Director for Forensic Investigation for National Development (FIND Ghana), Mr. Abu Sulemana Mohammed and other facilitators from FIND Ghana.

 

Cape Coast, October 13, 2020: Management of the University of Cape Coast has learnt with dismay a news report alleging a robbery attack on students at the University Campus. The false report apparently emanated from a social media post accompanied by a video that has since been trending.

The facts of the case are that about 12 midnight on 12th October, 2020, the UCC security patrol team led by Mr. Gershon Serwornu received a call of an alleged robbery attack on students at the S.K. Agyepong Lecture Theatre. The team responded and moved to the purported scene of the attack. Upon their arrival, they found the place locked. The security man on duty was at post and when questioned he did not appear to know anything about the attack.


The patrol team was still with him when they heard shouts from the direction of the C.A. Ackah Lecture Theatre (CAALT) about 200 metres from their location. They quickly moved there and were told by some students that they heard shouts of armed robbery attack and took to their heels.
The Police were invited and they responded. No robbers were found at the scene and no weapons were retrieved. No casualties were recorded. From the above it appears the whole thing might have been a prank.


We take this opportunity to assure all and sundry that there has not been any robbery attack on UCC Campus and that life is normal. We wish to assure parents that the safety and security of students and staff is paramount to Management and that we will continue to provide conducive and serene environment for academic work at all times. 
We would also like to warn students to desist from such acts of mischief and that severe disciplinary action would be taken against offenders.


Maj. Kofi Baah-Bentum (Rtd) Psc APR
DEPUTY REGISTRAR (DPA)
 

 

09 Oct, 2020

Centre for Coastal Management

Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR)

Call for Applications to One-Week Professional Courses

  1. Geographic Information Systems (Introductory and Intermediate Courses)
  2. Integrated Coastal Zone Management
  3. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Coastal Areas
  4. Fisheries Management

Background

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) is partnering with the World Bank under the current phase of the Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE) Impact III Programme to promote coastal resilience within the West and Central African sub-regions. By the establishment of the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR) at the Centre for Coastal Management, UCC seeks to support the development of technical and scientific capacity of young African professionals to advance integrated solutions in addressing coastal degradation through short- to long-term professional and academic training programmes. The primary focus of the ACECoR is capacity building for the advancement of sustainable use and management of marine and coastal assets in the partner countries. This is expected to be achieved in collaboration with academia, research institutions and industry, through local and international partnerships.

ACECoR Short Courses

Under the Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience (ACECoR) programme, the Centre for Coastal Management (CCM) at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Ghana, is organizing short courses to strengthen the capacity of government institutions and professionals who are dealing with myriad challenges in coastal areas of Africa with a focus on West and Central Africa. The short courses have been carefully thought out and structured to equip coastal managers with the fundamentals as well as in-depth knowledge for a more integrated approach in the planning and execution of coastal programmes for sustainable development and management of coastal areas.

Interested candidates are invited to apply for any of the five (5) courses currently being run at the Centre. All applications are to be submitted online at the Centre’s website at least two-weeks before commencement of the course.

Courses and dates for 2020/2021 are as follows:

Course Date
Regular Stream
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – Introductory Course (L1) 16th - 20th Nov, 2020
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – Intermediate Course (L2) 23th - 27th Nov, 2020
Online Stream
Integrated Coastal Zone Management 25th Jan - 5th Feb, 2021
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Coastal Areas 15th -26th Feb, 2021
Fisheries Management 22nd Feb - 5th Mar, 2021

Course fees for regular stream courses

The fee for each short course is as follows:

Local Ghanaian participants

Non-residential (Package 1): GHS 850.00 (Includes tuition and all training materials)

Non-residential (Package 2): GHS 1,175.00 (Includes tuition and all training materials and meals – lunch and snacks)

Residential: GHS 1,775.00 (Includes tuition and all training materials, accommodation and meals – lunch and snacks)

International participants

US $ 1,000.00 (includes airport pick up, accommodation, tuition, training materials, lunch, and snack breaks)

Please note that the fee does not include visa fees, ground transport (except airport pick up), airfare, travel insurance, or food/lodging before or after the training dates. For local Ghanaian participants, travel to and from Cape Coast is the responsibility of the participant.

Payment should be made to the account details below:

Account Name: Centre for Coastal Management

Bank: Zenith Bank Ghana Limited

Branch: University of Cape Coast

Account Number: 0006011407382

Course fees for online stream courses

A subsidised fee of US $ 100.00 is charged for online courses. All applicants will be required to pay this fee online using the online payment sytem.

Sponsorship

The Centre will offer limited funding support for personnel from the following government agencies for the 2020 batch of Geographic Information Systems short courses: Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Fisheries Commission, Marine Police and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other relevant state institutions, NGOs and private partners.

Important note: Females and youth from these institutions are particularly encouraged to apply.

Online registration

All applications to participate in the CCM Short Courses must be submitted online at ccm.ucc.edu.gh. You are kindly requested to apply online before the following deadlines:

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – Introductory Course (L1): 9th November, 2020

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – Intermediate Course (L2): 9th November, 2020

Integrated Coastal Zone Management: 11th January, 2021

Fisheries Management: 11th January, 2021

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Coastal Areas of Ghana: 11th January, 2021

Apply online: Centre for Coastal Management

For more information, contact us at ccm@ucc.edu.gh or call 0332092654

Researchers of the LUCSUS Project

DRIC Partners Lund University to Implement 2 Million Euro Grant on SDGs

08 Oct, 2020 By louis Mensah

The Director of the Directorate of Research Innovation and Consultancy, Prof. Frederick Ato Armah, and the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Sweden have been jointly awarded SEK 20 million (which is approximately 2 million Euros) for a new research project.
    
The project titled: Mobilizing farmer organisations for sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa: Collaborative comparative analysis of rural social movement building and outcomes in Ghana, Uganda, and Zimbabwe is aimed at mobilising farmer organisations for sustainable agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. The project is one of eleven new research projects, with a focus on Agenda 2030, which is to be funded in one of the biggest targeted calls ever of the Swedish Research Council (FORMAS). 

Background

In October 2019, Prof. Armah was invited together with 14 other participants to respond to the FORMAS Call for proposal for collaborative research on farmer organization and mobilization for sustainable and equitable agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. The PI (Dr. Ellinor Isgren) and Co-PI (Dr. Chad Boda), researchers at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), together with Prof Armah (Co-PI) and some representatives from small-scale farmer associations within Ghana, Uganda, and Zimbabwe met in Nairobi to draft the proposal in October 2019. 

About the FORMAS Call

The FORMAS Call aims to create research that is highly relevant to the UN’s global sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Agenda 2030. It is expected that the research offers new perspectives on the SDGs by either highlighting key synergies or conflicts between different goals or by applying humanistic or social science perspectives that could benefit the field of sustainability. Again, the call sought to encourage researchers to both tackle significant scientific challenges and take action to enable their research results to be used to guide society, directly or indirectly, towards realising the SDGs.

 

Collaborators 

On the academic side, the project involves collaboration with the University of Cape Coast (Ghana), Lira University (Uganda), and Sam Moyo Institute of Agrarian Studies. On the civil society side, the Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana, Eastern and Southern Africa Small-scale Farmers Forum in Uganda, and Zimbabwe Small-Scale Organic Farmers Forum will be involved. 
 
Connection of the project to the realisation of the SDGs

Ultimately, the project seeks to generate knowledge that is practically useful for civil society mobilisation around agricultural development, which has an important role to play in making sustainable development realisable. In these countries, as in much of the world, agriculture relates to multiple SDGs – most obviously Zero Hunger but also No Poverty, Life on Land, Climate Change, Gender Equality, and many others – if not all. There is a lot of existing knowledge already about what types of policies and interventions will make agricultural development more sustainable and inclusive. And yet, in many places, both environmental issues and the needs of resource-poor smallholders remain low on the political agenda.


Credit: Isaac Nketsiah

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The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Education offers programmes targeted at applicants at the undergraduate and post graduate level in the Arts, Social Sciences and Business Education through the regular or the sandwich route. The sandwich route particularly gives opportunity to Teachers already in the service, to pursue post graduate studies to upgrade their knowledge and expertise which would otherwise have been a challenge due to work commitments and the limited number of study leave granted each year by the Ghana Education Service.

About Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences Education

Vision statement: 
The vision of the Faculty is to become a leading Faculty in quality educational research and students' academic growth.
Mission statement: 
Its mission is to seek to provide leadership and inspiration in teaching, research and outreach programmes to promote learning and human resource development.
History: 
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Education is one of the newly created faculties in the College of Education Studies. The college was created in 2014 as a two tier college. After two years of experimentation, it was elevated to a three tier college with the creation of four faculties including our faculty, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Education (FOHSSE). FOHSSE was created from the former Department of Arts and Social Sciences Education. It is currently made up of two academic departments: the Department of Arts Education and the Department of Business and Social Sciences Education. The latter is a combination of Business Education and Social Sciences Education disciplines. The two disciplinary areas would be broken down into departments, Business Education and Social Sciences Education when office space is expanded and additional Lectures are recruited in the near future.
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The Faculty is committed to: Excellence: To make our students competitive in today’s contemporary world, we strive to attain operational excellence by organizing training on professional development activities for them. Discipline: We are focused on developing on attitude that overcomes the constant adversity that confronts us all on a daily basis. Hard work: We operate in a transparent manner that portrays our accountability to each other, our students and the general university. Innovation: We encourage innovation through creative and critical thinking and the use of contemporary technology.
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Performance by CEVEN Choir

Department of Music and Dance/DPA Hold Musical Concert

08 Oct, 2020 By louis Mensah

The Department of Music and Dance in collaboration with the Directorate of Public Affairs (DPA) has organised a virtual musical concert to promote peace in the 2020 elections.

The programme dubbed “UCC: in Harmony for Peace” featured performance by the Central Vocal Ensemble (CEVEN) and poetry recital by Kwame Dampare. Cladded in traditional costume of the various tribes in Ghana, CEVEN gave a stunning rendition of patriotic songs to drum on the peace message.

Peace

Opening the programme, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Prof. Kwame Osei Kwarteng, entreated Ghanaians to maintain the peace the country had enjoyed over the years. He noted that elections must not divide the country rather Ghanaians must be united to elect a leader who would help to develop the country. “We need to take lessons from conflicts in some countries as a result of electoral violence. Let us not repeat the mistakes of these countries and go through what they experienced,” he cautioned.

Peaceful Elections

The Central Regional Minister, Hon. Kwamina Duncan, who was represented by Mr. Blessed Kwame Darkeh, commended UCC, especially the Department of Music and Dance for organising the concert to create awareness on the need to live in peace and harmony as Ghanaians go to the polls in December, 2020. He said the country has had peaceful elections in the fourth republic and there was no cause for violence in the upcoming elections.
    
The Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South, Kweku Ricketts-Hagan, Oguamanhen, Osabarima Kwesi Atta II, representatives from Ghana Union Movement (GUM) and the National Peace Council also gave peace messages at the programme which was streamed live on the University’s social media platforms.


 

Presentation at the Forum

Department of Applied Economics Hosts Ghana Priorities Youth Forum

08 Oct, 2020 By louis Mensah

The National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) in collaboration with the Department of Applied Economics has held a two-day forum to solicit contributions, perspectives and views of students on programmes and policies for Ghana’s Development Plan.

Data-Driven Policies

In her remarks at the programme, the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Dora Edu-Buandoh, noted that policies underpinned by data provide assurances that investments made by the government will produce an effective outcome. She explained that “Although some policy failures over the years have been attributed to other factors, it is highly possible that most of such policies have failed in the past largely due to inaccurate data.” 

Pro. Edu-Buandoh indicated that it was important to gather research conducted in the various universities and research institutes in a national data and research hub to assist the country’s policy makers. She added that a data-driven policy was the best way to achieve the goals of our developmental policies. She commended the NDPC for recognising the relevance of the youth in activities that lead to policy-making and development in the nation. She was very optimistic that the youth who were present, would make very productive inputs to the discourse.

Contribution to National Policy Process

The Director-General of the NDPC, Dr. Kodjo Esseim Mensah Abrampa, explained that the forum was aimed at contributing to the national policy-making process. “This programme will help us to come out with an output which is a representation of not only experts but people who understand the process and also have varied views,” he explained.  Dr. Abrampa noted that the commission served as the thinking machine of the country and indicated that NDPC advises the president on all matters of strategic development and strategic planning and also enjoined by the constitution to ensure balanced development in Ghana among other responsibilities. 
The Director-General of NDPC announced that the forum would be replicated at the University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, and the University of Development Studies.

Solutions

In his address, the Coordinator of Ghana Priorities, Dr Ralph Nordjo, explained that the focus of the project was to find solutions to develop the nation.
Experts from the NDPC made presentations on the planning systems and the budget processes in Ghana. 

Group Presentations

The two-day forum was climaxed with group presentations from students in the on topical issues facing the country. Topics presented by the students touched on were Malaria, Land Records and Illegal mining,  Health System, Poverty, Gender, Family, Fisheries, Industrialization, Education, LPG cooking, Rural electrification, Mental Health, Urban Sanitation, Transportation among others. 

Present at the opening ceremony were the Provost of the College of Humanities and Legal Studies, Prof Eric Francis Amuquandoh; Dean, School of Economics, Dr. Emmanueal Asmah; Head, Department of Applied Economics, Mr. Jacob Nunoo and some lecturers of the University.

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