A team from the Medical and Dental Council (MDC), Ghana has begun assessment of training facilities and academic programmes of the School of Medical Sciences (SMS) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).

The assessment is in line with Part II of the Health Professions Regulatory Bodies Act 2013 (ACT 857) which enjoins the MDC to ensure that training facilities and programmes of Medical and Dentistry institutions meet required standards.

The Vice-Chancellor of University of Cape Coast, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, has reiterated that the academic programmes run by the University are geared towards making students competitive on the job market.

Prof. Boampong pointed out that the programmes run by the University were reviewed periodically to make students more qualified to compete in the job market. 

The Vice-Chancellor was speaking at the 5th Session of the 54th Congregation to graduate 12,325 students of the College of Distance Education (CoDE). 

The Department of Soil Science has started engagements with key stakeholders towards building the needed human and technological capacities necessary for the fertilizer industry in Ghana.

For that matter, the Department of Soil Science engaged key stakeholders in a one-day workshop to introduce the state of the curriculum being developed and to elicit their inputs in order to make the programme respond to the needs of the fertilizer industry.

The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences has awarded nine (9) students at its Dean’s awards ceremony.

The deserving students - from Level 200 to 400, were awarded in recognition of their efforts and distinguishing themselves academically.

The students were awarded in the categories of best-performing student, most improved student, and overall best student among others.

The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has organised a workshop for students of the School of Pharmacy and Phar

The Department of Conservation Biology and Entomology has indicated its readiness to collaborate with other research institutions and industries to apply knowledge of some identified characters of insects to develop environmentally friendly products.

The Head of the Department, Dr.  Rofela Combey, who disclosed this, said "insects’ body have some compounds and small structures that allow them to protect themselves (from extreme environmental conditions)."

The Head of Department of Music and Dance, Dr. Eric Debrah has noted that culture has an important role to play in the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Dr. Debrah explained that the SDGs focused primarily on attitudinal change which could be better communicated through the culture of people.

Management of University of Cape Coast has donated ultra-modern laboratory equipment to the Dept. of Biomedical Sciences. 

The equipment, worth GH¢ 500,000, are to improve teaching, learning and research at the Department. 

The equipment included gel documentation system, autoclave (commercial) and water distillation plant.