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Mr. Anselm Ransford Sowah

Education System Does not Create Enough Opportunities for Students

07 Mar, 2019 By louis Mensah

The Chief Executive Officer of GCB Bank, Mr. Anselm Ray Sowah, has observed that the current education system does not give students enough opportunities to build themselves outside the classroom so that they can be relevant to industry.

Mr. Sowah indicated that industry was looking for students who could think and analyse situations to solve complex problems affecting society.

The CEO of GCB Bank made these observations when he delivered a lecture on the topic "Linking Education to Industry: Regaining the Past” as part of the Second College-Industry Week Celebration of the College of Humanities and Legal Studies.

Members of the University Community and the general public at the lecture
Members of the University Community and the general public at the lecture

Students Memorise Lecture Notes 

Mr. Sowah pointed out that most students in universities devote the greater part of their time memorising lecture notes instead of understanding what they have been taught. He urged students to be open-minded and read other materials related to their field of study and other disciplines to enrich their depth of knowledge. “Your imagination is a great workshop of solution” he reminded them

According to Mr. Sowah, we have not made good use of the vocational and technical institutions which had led to waste of talents. “Our inability as a nation to take advantage of technological advancement has left most industries in the country stagnant,” he noted.  He was worried that some universities which were supposed to train scientists and promote technology were now offering more programmes in the humanities.

Present at the lecture were the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah; Pro Vice-Chancellor, Prof.  Dora Edu-Buandoh; Registrar, Mr. John Kofi Nyan; Provost, College of Humanities of Legal Studies, Prof. Eric Amuquandoh; Provost, College of Health and Allied Sciences, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong;  Deans, Heads of Department, lecturers. students and other members of the University Community and a section of industry players.

public lecture
Dr. Julius Eghan Junior presenting his award to the Provost, College of Education Studies

Dr. John Elvis Hagan Junior Wins Cluster of Excellence Initiative Awards

05 Mar, 2019 By louis Mensah

A Lecturer at the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, Dr. John Elvis Hagan Junior, has presented Cluster of Excellence Initiative Awards he won while pursuing his PhD at Bielefeld University in Germany to the Provost of the College of Education Studies, Professor Eric Magnus Wilmot.

Excellence Initiative Award is an award presented to graduating students each year by the German Federal and State Governments to promote top-level research in Germany. This initiative is to deepen cooperation between disciplines and institutions, and strengthen international cooperation.

Presenting the award, Dr. Hagan Junior, said his dissertation was adjudged as the best for 2018. “Though I had won scholarship, the University granted me the permission to leave, I also owe so much to the faculty, the College and the entire University,” he added.

He explained that he was able to publish four articles before his graduation. This he said was recognised as outstanding.

Prof. Eric Magnus Wilmot congratulated Dr. John Hagan on winning these enviable awards. He added that, this would help project not only the image of the College and that of the University as well. “We encourage others to do their best to win similar awards in whatever endeavours they are engaged in”, he said.

The award winners with the dignitaries

School of Graduate Studies Presents Research Grants to 40 Postgraduate Students

05 Mar, 2019 By louis Mensah

School of Graduate Studies Presents Research Grants to 40 Postgraduate Students

The School of Graduate Studies in collaboration with Samuel and Emelia Brew-Butler GRASAG UCC Research Grant has presented grants to 40 qualified postgraduate students.

Samuel and Emelia Brew-Butler GRASAG UCC Research fund was established to provide financial assistance (grant) to postgraduate students to help them produce quality graduate research and early completion of their work.

UCC’s Commitment to Excellence in Quality Postgraduate Education

The Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dora F. Edu-Buandoh congratulated the 40 students on their selection out of 71 applicants. She explained that the presentation of the award was to emphasise the University’s commitment to excellence with the view of ensuring high delivery of postgraduate education.

Prof. Edu-Buandoh noted that the School of Graduate Studies was determined to provide an enabling academic and social environment for postgraduate students and also ensure stable completion rate. “The overriding goal of this grant is to motivate students to contribute their quota to national development through quality and timely research,” she stressed. She added that the fund was aimed at supporting students to conduct their research and to finish on time and to also publish articles in recognised local and international journals. She admonished qualified awardees to make good use of the GHC 4,000 given to achieve the purpose of the grant.

The Pro Vice-Chancellor commended the leadership and members of the committee the Grants and Awards Committee secretariat, GRASAG UCC and the School of Graduate Studies for coming out with a laudable strategy. She said the grants would not only reposition GRASAG and the University, but also make postgraduate research work more comfortable for students. “Don’t only look into this scheme, cast your net wide to other grants that support thesis writing” she advised students.                 

On behalf of the award winners, Ms. Dora Attiogbe, thanked the Management and committee of Grant and Award the honour done them. 

University Community and the general public

International Mother Language Day Observed on Campus with a Lecture

01 Mar, 2019 By louis Mensah

The Acting Dean of the School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Professor Kofi Agyekum, has called for the inclusion of grassroots participation in governance through the use of the mother tongue.

He said “whenever the language is switched from that of the masses, plans for economic, agricultural and industrial developments are more difficult to make”. He advised that Ghana’s local languages must be developed to become a means of regular communication.

Professor Agyekum made this call at a Public Lecture organised by the Department of Ghanaian Language and Linguistics, to commemorate 2019 International Mother Language celebration under the theme, “Indigenous languages matter for development, peace building and reconciliation”.

Speak  Mother Language to Promote Culture and Heritage of Ghana                                                                                 

Speaking at the programme the Pro Vice Chancellor of University of Cape Coast, Prof. Dora F. Edu-Buondoh expressed worry that some Ghanaians did not love to speak their own mother tongue.  She said that some Ghanaians had become foreigners in their own land and thrown their culture away. She advised that “whiles learning foreign languages to advance ourselves, we should as well learn our local languages too, this is the only way we can keep our culture and heritage”. 

Brief History of International Mother Language Day                                                       

International Mother Language Day is a worldwide celebration observed on 21st of February with the aim of promoting awareness of linguistic, cultural, diversity and promoting multilingual. The celebration was first announced by the UNESCO on November 17, 1999 and was formerly recognised by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in a resolution established in 2008 as International Mother Language Day. This day is celebrated every year with the overall objective to promote linguistic diversity and multilingual education.

Celebration of International Mother Language Day in UCC

The Department of Ghanaian Language and Linguistics of the University of Cape Coast started observing the day three years ago. The first celebration was marked with a Public Lecture on the theme, "Towards Sustainable Futures through Multilingual Education." which was delivered by a lecturer from the School of Language, University of Education, Winneba. The second was celebrated as part of the Faculty of Arts Lecture series on the theme, “The Need for Review and Stability of Language on the Mother Language Education”.

 

 

Presentation of prizes to a participant

Department of Mental Health Trains Health Practitioners on Autism

01 Mar, 2019 By louis Mensah

The Department of Mental health of the School of Nursing and Midwifery in collaboration with Autism Compassion Africa has organised a seminar on Autism and Applied Behaviour Analysis

The workshop was aimed at enlightening  health practitioners and students on Autism, managing and supporting families of children with such disorders.

The speaker, Mrs. Whitney Hammel, took participants through the history of Autism spectrum disorder, the diagnoses, treatment considerations and applied behavior analysis.

She explained that there was no known cause of Autism at present adding, “It is biologically or genetically based on developmental disorder”. Mrs. Hammel indicated that Autism was the second most common developmental disorder and indicated that early diagnosis and intervention could reduce cost of lifelong care by 66%.

She stated that recent increase in prevalence might be due to “changes in diagnostic criteria, differences in experimental methods, increased awareness and awareness of co-morbity with intellectual impairment, average or high intellectual ability and psychiatric disorders”.

Participants of the workshop listening to the presentations

Postgraduate Students of the School of Nursing and Midwifery Attend Workshop on Plagiarism

01 Mar, 2019 By louis Mensah

The School of Nursing and Midwifery has organised a workshop on plagiarism for its postgraduate students.

Purpose

The workshop was to help the students understand the concept and also endeavor to avoid plagiarism in their writings. This has become necessary because the University was putting in place mechanisms to detect plagiarized work by students.

Opening Remarks

Giving the opening remark, the Dean of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Dr. (Mrs.) Dorcas Obiri-Yeboah stated that “there is a lot of confusion amongst students and some faculties as to what constitute plagiarism. So sometimes, you will find out that a student will not really think that what he/she did was plagiarism and yet, in reality, it was completely plagiarism”.

Dr. (Mrs.) Obiri-Yeboah encouraged the students to take the workshop serious in order to help them avoid plagiarizing other people’s work.

Tips to Avoid Plagiarism

Speaking on the topic, “Plagiarism- A How NOT to”, a Principal Research Officer at the Directorate of Research Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC), Mr. Isaac Nketsiah, led the students through what constituted plagiarism, the types of plagiarism and how to avoid it.

Taking the students through some of the tips to help them avoid plagiarism, Mr. Nketsiah noted that, “One has to understand the difference between quoting, summarising and paraphrasing.” He advised them to refrain from copying more than three or more words in a row from a source without using quotation marks. He further told them to map out their arguments and then quote sources to support to them-“Explain the author’s idea in the context of the paper, compare and contrast the views of other authors, and adding one’s own critique.” He said these tips amongst others would help them to eliminate plagiarism.

UCC’s Plagiarism Policy

Mr. Nketsiah also enlightened the students on UCC’s Plagiarism Policy. He stated that, “the University wants to hold dear its integrity, so you can’t just produce a plagiarized work in the University. If you plagiarize from 20 to 49%, you will be required to revise your paper and remove all plagiarized portions in your work”; he said students whose work contained 50% to 59% plagiarism would be asked to change their topic and those with 70% or more, would be dismissed and banned from pursuing any programme in the University for five years”

He called on students to seek assistance from their supervisors in order to produce works that were devoid of plagiarised information.

The students were also taken through some practical sessions during the workshop .

 

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