A member of the Planning Committee for the Ghana Astronomy Radio Observatory, Dr. Bernard Duah Asabere, has urged students to embrace the study of Astronomy as it has a wide range of job prospects for them after school. According to him, Astronomy was a very important field of study because it had enormous benefits and also enabled students to explore other opportunities even if they would not remain in the field. “Astronomy is a wide field. There is a vast range of things you can do.
A ceremony has been held for the immediate past University’s Governing Council led by Nana Sam Brew Butler to officially handover to the new one, which is chaired by Mrs. Nancy Thompson. It would be recalled that the new Council was inaugurated on 25th July, 2017 in Accra to begin its term. Speaking at the handover ceremony, Nana Butler described the ceremony as a unique one, which engenders cordiality and sharing of ideas, as well as building of strong foundation. “Such foundations are the ones that are strong and stand the test of time”, he said.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, has received a delegation from Unibank led by the Executive Director, Global Marketing and Retail Banking, Mr. Ekow Nyarko Dennis. The purpose of the visit was to request for a land on campus to put up a banking facility. Speaking to the delegation, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah said some banks have already put in their requests for land to put up banking edifice at the “Bank Farm”, a vast land on campus zoned by the University authorities for banks to build structures to facilitate their banking operations. However, Prof.
The University of Cape Coast Business Incubator (UCCBI), School of Business in conjunction with Rain forest Alliance (RA), Olam and Läderach (Schweiz) AG organized a four-day training programme for selected farmers of the family life project in Bobi, Twifo Hemang in the Central Region, Ghana. The objective of the training programme was to improve upon the entrepreneurial and managerial knowledge and skills of the selected farmers. The programme equipped the farmers with sustainable alternative livelihood.
Four students of the University of Cape Coast School of Business swept all the three prominent awards at a Joint Conference held at the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
A handing over ceremony has been held for newly appointed officers of the University whose tenure of office begins from August, 2017. Speaking at the function, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, congratulated the newly-appointed officers on their appointment and called on them to work as a team with their colleagues and all category of staff to move their respective offices forward.
The University of Cape Coast, UCC, is holding a two-day orientation programme for newly-admitted students for the 2017/2018 academic year. The two-day event is aimed at providing useful information that would be helpful to the new students and also make their life on campus comfortable. Addressing the students, the Dean of Student Affairs, Prof. Kwoaw Edjah, noted that UCC puts a premium on discipline. Prof.
In pursuance of its mandate of improving teaching and learning in higher education, the Centre for Teaching Support (CTS) of the College of Education Studies of UCC has extended its services to the National Ambulance Services (NAS). The training targeted 43 Doctors and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) who are tutors at the National Ambulance Service Training School.
Newly-admitted students of the University of Cape Coast for the 2017/2018 academic year have been advised to be cautious and conscious in the management of their time while on campus to enable them achieve their educational goals. The Dean of the Faculty of Educational Foundations, Prof. Eric Nyarko-Sampson, who gave the advice in a statement, cautioned the fresh students: “{You} need to manage your time well in order to draw a balance among your competing needs.
A lecturer at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dr. Martin Anokye, has been adjudged as the Best Research Presenter at the International Conference on Applied Physics and Mathematics (ICAPM) held in Frankfurt, Germany. The Conference, held on 4th-5th August 2017, was aimed at presenting novel and fundamental advances in the fields of Applied Physics and Mathematics.
