The Third Research Awards and Grants (RAG) Ceremony has been held under the auspices of the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC) at the School of Medical Sciences.
The annual award scheme is aimed at motivating and honouring faculty members who distinguished themselves through impact-oriented research as well as those who have shown potential in the same regard.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho, Prof. John Owusu Gyapong, has challenged the University of Cape Coast to channel more funds into research to enhance its visibility.
Prof. Gyapong noted that UCC could only become relevant as a world class university and feature in the Global Higher Education rankings if substantial investments was made in research.
<p>The Department of Sociology and Anthropology has received a consignment of books and some projectors from Prof. Nelson Kofie of the Northern Virginia Community College, Virginia, United States of America.</p>
<p>In addition to this, Prof. Kofie has donated books and other teaching materials valued at $ 60, 000 to the University Library and some departments in UCC in 2018.</p>
A Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow from Central Connecticut State University, United States of America (USA), Dr Fumilayo Showers, has observed that many West African immigrants are attracted to heath care work in the USA because of relatively high wages and favourable work conditions.
The University of Cape Coast has won the 2018 edition of the Impact Africa Debate Championship & Intercontinental Public Speaking Contest ahead of University of Ibadan Nigeria and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology which was held from the 23rd to 27th of July at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
A senior lecturer at the University of Dayton, in the United States of America (USA), Dr. Dorothy Mensah-Aggrey, has called on leaders to empathise with their followers to ensure their holistic development.
The University Junior High School, has held its 18th Awards Day Celebration with a call on teachers and parents to train their children to eschew all forms of littering in order to reduce the poor sanitary conditions in the country.
The programme was on the theme “Keeping a Healthy Environment: The Civic Duty of the Ghanaians Child”.
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) is calling on the Government to pay the 2017/2018 academic year Book and Research Allowance (BRA) as a matter of urgency.
According to the National President of UTAG, Dr. Eric Opoku Mensah, all attempts by executives of the Union for the payment of BRA have proved unsuccessful.
Dr. Mensah made the call at a press conference held on UCC campus
Dr. Susannah Mayhew, the daughter of the first Director of the Directorate of Physical Development and Estate Section (DPDEM), late Mr. Alan Mayhew, has visited the University Primary School.
Dr. Mayhew who was at the School to inspect a Science Laboratory project sponsored by her father was accompanied by her husband, Mr. Michael Hammer and their children Annelie and Nicholas.
Dr. Susannah Mayhew, the daughter of the first Director of the Directorate of Physical Development and Estate Section (DPDEM), late Mr. Alan Mayhew, has visited the University Primary School.
Dr. Mayhew who was at the School to inspect a Science Laboratory project sponsored by her father was accompanied by her husband, Mr. Michael Hammer and their children Annelie and Nicholas.
