The management of the University has held a retreat at Birdrock Hotel, Anomabo, to evaluate the Collegiate System and also set strategies towards repositioning the University of Cape Coast as one of the leading Universities in Africa and beyond.
The Centre for International Education has been meeting senior members of the various faculties/schools of the University of Cape Coast to create awareness among members of the functions of the Centre and the opportunities that are available to staff/faculty and students. Full details coming up.
The Faculty of Social Sciences has honoured 36 students from level 200 to 400 who have excelled in their academic work at the 2015/2016 Dean’s Award Ceremony.
The award winners who obtained Cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3. 6 and above fall within the first class category in their respective programmes of study.
The 5th Excellence Award organized under the auspices of the Institute of Education, has been held with a call on the Ghana Education Service to grant study leave to the award winners to pursue a two-year Post Diploma studies at the university. The award scheme was instituted five years ago to reward students of the Colleges of Education offering Diploma in Basic Education who exhibit academic excellence and high moral and social standards.
Picture: The French Ambassador,His Excellency Pujolas Francois (2nd left) interacting with the Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof. George K. T. Oduro. With them are the Registrar, Mr. Kofi Nyan (right); Head, Department of French (middle) and Mrs. Francois (2nd left).
Prof. Peter Kwapong of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, UCC has made it to the top United Nations (UN) Expert Scientists who produced a policy-document on Global Assessment of Pollinators and Pollination.
A legal practitioner and Gender Activist, Mrs. Sheila Minka-Premo has stressed on the need to create more opportunities for female farmers to have access to land and other resources to enable them to improve their livelihood and generate wealth. She called for sensitisation of women on their lands rights to secure land tenure as well as strong advocacy to ensure the enforcement of relevant laws that had been enacted to improve the policy framework for women.
As part of activities to mark the celebration of the International Year of Soils - 2015, the Soil Science Society of Ghana (SSSG) in collaboration with the Department of Soil Science, School of Agriculture has organised a quiz competition for some selected Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Central and Western Regions.
The Central Regional Minister, Mr. Kweku Ricket Hagan has congratulated Master Kofi-Quakyi Oduro, a former student of the University Junior High School for winning the Central Regional best student for the President’s Independence Day Award for the 2015 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
Ghana as a developing country must incorporate science, technology, and innovation into its economic and development strategies so as to accelerate its progress. “There is no doubt that science education is central to the lives of all citizens in the world. Presently, we live in a complex world and science knowledge has become so critical in making sense of it all”.