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.
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.
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?
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.
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 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).
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. D. D. Kuupole has commended the Department of Conservation Biology and Entomology for creating public awareness of the importance of biodiversity and how it could be utilized to promote safe environment for the Ghanaian society.
Prof. Kuupole gave this commendation during a ceremony to create awareness on the efforts of the department to help control the invasion of bats on the university campus.
A two-day training workshop has been organised to build the capacity of Quality Assurance Officers in the various institutions affiliated to the University of Cape Coast.
The training workshop which was facilitated by the Institutional Affiliation Office in conjunction with the Directorate of Academic Planning and Quality Assurance of UCC was on the theme “Ensuring Academic Quality in Higher Education Institutions”
A delegation from UNICEF Ghana has paid a working visit to the Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast at his Office. On the purpose of the visit, the leader of the team, Ms. Aarti Saihjee, Chief of Education, UNICEF Ghana indicated that the team visited the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration and decided to pay a courtesy call on the Pro Vice-Chancellor to abreast themselves with the upcoming Second Easter-Annual Forum to be organised by the University.
The “Youth Enrichment through Sports” YES Ghana has donated sports equipment to selected basic schools in the Cape Coast metropolis.
The schools were the University of Cape Coast Primary School, Bakatsir Methodist Junior High School, OLA Presbyterian Basic School, University Practice Senior High School and Apewosika M/A Basic School.
A delegation of Assessors from the University of Cape Coast Committee on Institutional Affiliation have met with staff of the Nurse Anaesthesia Training School(NATS), Ridge Hospital in Accra to interact and inspect facilities at the school.
The visit of the assessors was aimed at finalising NATS affiliation to the University of Cape Coast School of Nursing. Currently the Ministry of Health has approved the affiliation of degree top-up programmes of 12 Nursing Training Institutions to the University of Cape Coast.
