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Some dignitaries and participants at the workshop

Counselling Centre Holds Academic Success Workshop

05 Nov, 2019 By louis Mensah

The Counselling Centre has organised an academic workshop for students on the topic: "Start Your Semester Right: Strategising Your Semester for Academic Success and Balance." 
The Director, Counselling Centre, Rev. Fr. Dr. Anthony K. Nkyi, in his welcome address noted that the workshop was to introduce and enhance students with the skills and strategies they could adopt or adapt to successfully finish their programme of study at UCC. 

The Director indicated that it was the mandate of the Centre to provide the necessary atmosphere and requisite skills to students in the areas of person-social, academic, mental and emotional areas of their lives. He further noted that it was the Centre's mission to assist students to excel in the area of academic excellence among other needs because academic failure was painful and could crush self-confidence and self-esteem. 

Learning Styles


Speaking on learning styles, Dr. Stephen Doh Fia, encouraged students to adopt the right learning techniques to suit their learning abilities and capabilities. He indicated that learning could be auditory, manipulative and visual; however, each student should determine the suitable style of learning that would help him/her to study successfully. Dr. Doh Fia stated that having enough rest, self-motivation, planning, drawing professional timetable, and developing a daily schedule would always help students to study effectively. 

Life on Campus

Talking about life on campus, Dr. Sylvia Ocansey explained to students on the need to realize the independent nature of university life, where one has to plan and manage time and activities judiciously so as to affect their academic lives positively and effectively. She urged them to be self-disciplined through efficient planning, determination and resilience, hard work, keeping focused, collaboration and networking. Stressing on organisaton and preparation for learning, Dr. Ocansey advised them to always read over topics to be taught, leave their residences early enough for lecture and build constructive ICT skills. She counselled the students, "Never miss any lecture; to take brief and meaningful lecture notes, adopt early and consistent revision of lecture notes and use the library meaningfully and consistently." Dr. Ocansey encouraged them to keep their focus and work hard and be confident in themselves. 

Procrastination

 
The Director, Counselling Centre, Rev. Dr. Anthony K. Nkyi, noted that procrastination was one of the major factors that could hugely affect learning negatively and cause academic failure. He indicated that "lack of motivation, trouble in concentrating, perfectionism and perfect time, low energy levels, and poor organisation skills are some of the causes of the procrastination." However, he admonished that they could be fixed by breaking projects into smaller tasks, setting clear goals or making a project plan and sticking to it, eating healthy and getting enough rest. The Director for the added that building up self-confidence and developing good study skills could also help curtail procrastination.
Counselling Centre Open to Students


The Dean, Faculty of Educational Foundations, Prof. Eric Nyarko Simpson, commended the Centre for its effort to introduce and enhance students with all the necessary learning skills, strategies and academic self-discipline. He said, "The Counselling Centre has this exercise at heart to help students achieve their maximum academic potential and excellence on campus, therefore, take advantage and participate. The Dean also encouraged students to visit the Centre for all planned and tailored programmes as well as services that would help them. 

   

 

   
    
 

Clinical Nursing Practice II 

Course Code: 
NUR 330
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

Basic Pharmacology

This course is designed as an introductory study of pharmacological agents used to promote, maintain and restore health. Emphasis is on increasing therapeutic effects and decreasing adverse effects. Content will be presented on select drug classifications, prototypes and individual drugs. The role and function of the professional nurse as related to pharmacological agents will be reviewed.

Course Code: 
NUR 327
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

Introduction To Public Health

The primary focus of this course is on preventative health care of populations and application of the principles of public health science. The course is aimed at assisting students gain much insight into personal health management. Components of environmental health and their relationship with occupational health will be examined. Field trips to relevant sites will be in cooperated in the course to enable students’ related theory to real life situations.

Course Code: 
NUR 325
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

Family Health Nursing

This course focuses on the family as a basic unit for health care. It is aim to help the student understand the dynamics of family health and the socio-cultural and environmental factors, which affect family structure and functioning and their implication on family health. Emphasis will placed on organisation of health services generally to meet the health needs of the family. A Client-Family Care Study will be an integral part of the course.

Course Code: 
NUR 323
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

Nursing Practice II

This course is taken concurrently with NUR 319. The course is designed to allow the students to apply the nursing process in the care of clients with an acute illness or undergoing a surgical procedure involving the respiratory, haematological or cardiovascular system.  Students will spend six (6) hours per week on an assigned clinical unit under the supervision of nurse technicians and clinicians. In addition, students will develop skills in setting trays and trolleys and preparing clients for a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Ward conferences will be organized to discuss the students’ clinical experiences and procedures. Demonstrations with return demonstration of selected nursing skills will be included in the course.

Course Code: 
NUR 321
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing

Crisis Intervention II

This course emphasizes the application of the nursing process to address acute illness and surgical care of clients with alterations in the respiratory, haematological and cardiovascular systems. The focus will be on health promotion and health maintenance strategies to meet the physical, developmental, and psychosocial needs of clients and families.

Course Code: 
NUR 319
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 300
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
Nursing
British High Commissioner to Ghana, H. E. Iain Walker

British High Commissioner to Ghana Delivers Lecture at UCC

04 Nov, 2019 By louis Mensah

The British High Commissioner to Ghana, His Excellency, Iain Walker, has indicated that the United Kingdom (UK) will continue to partner the government of Ghana and tertiary institutions to enhance quality education in the country.

Commissioner Walker gave the assurance when he delivered a lecture on the topic “Ghana “UK Relations” on campus. 

Education is Cornerstone of Development

The British High Commissioner noted that education was the cornerstone of critical thinking and creativity. According to him, it was for that reason that the United Kingdom (UK) had over the years invested over £400 million in Ghana’s education sector which had resulted in the training of quality teacher for all the levels of the country’s education system. He said through the Chevening and the Department for International Development (DFID) sponsored Commonwealth Shared Scholarships, opportunities have been provided to Ghanaians to study in top universities in the United Kingdom. He particularly said that DFID has supported UCC to train teachers for basic schools in the country.

He added that “The British Council’s programme for schools, Connecting Classrooms, has helped to improve learning outcomes for students and also offers a range of activities for teachers, school leaders and other education officials to improve quality education in the country”.
 

UK-Ghana Bilateral Relations 


Commissioner Walker noted that UK and Ghana have always collaborated and, therefore, there was the need to share experiences and learn from each other. “The warmth of friendship between the UK and Ghana is commendable because in a globalised world, there are challenges, however, with collaboration, we will succeed in addressing them through research and partnerships,” he explained.

The British High Commissioner said the President of Ghana’s vision for a self-reliant country was inspiring and would contribute to the long term development of the country.  He averred that it was important for developing countries to find a sustainable path to become self-reliant, however, “the Ghana Beyond Aid should address why there are good economic indicators but no self-reliance for the poor and marginalised in the country”.

UCC's Collaboration with UK Universities

On his part, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, said UCC was in collaboration with numerous UK universities. He, therefore, called on the High Commissioner to assist the University to deepen the collaboration with its partner institutions. “There have been instances where we need to visit our partner institutions in the UK for exchange programmes but application for visa for staff and students has sometimes been refused so we are appealing to you to help us in this regard” He also appealed to the High Commissioner to help increase the Commonwealth Scholarship slot to the University to enable more staff and students to further their education in the UK.

Prof. Ampiah said the University was a key partner in the Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) programme with sponsorship from the UK government.  He said UCC would position itself to have a mutually beneficial relationship with the UK High Commission.

    

  


 

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