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University of Ghana launches new
website
Accra, June 26, Ghanadot/GNA -The University of Ghana (UG)
on Thursday outdoored a new website to market and enhance
its image.
The new website, www.ug.edu.gh was launched by Professor
Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, Vice-Chancellor of the University.
Professor Tagoe said websites had become a key to marketing
institutions in today's world of competition and technology.
He said visitors had complained that the University came out
with the new website because the old one did not give enough
information.
He said updating the information on the website was the most
crucial thing and urged the Public Affairs Department to
create a corridor between it and the faculties to get
information for the update.
Mr. Emmanuel Owusu-Oware, Director, Information
Communication Technology (ICT), said the new website was an
improvement on features of the old one.
He explained that the objective of the introduction of the
new website was to market the university locally and
internationally to those interested in the affairs of the
university and to prospective applicants who wished to enrol
in the institution.
He said the website would be updated regularly to provide
up-to-date information of the University to the outside
world, with the faculties providing a quarterly report for
the site.
According to him, all the faculties, central administration,
students, staff and the entire university community were
expected to provide the ICT Department with information for
the updates.
Mr Patrick Kuti of the ICT Department took the gathering
through what the previous website was and the face of the
new one.
He said the new website gave general information about the
institution, facilities on the campus, mission statement,
detailed information for prospective students, news and
event page, staff directory, archives, and student
information, among other things.
Mr Isaac Kwakwa Sarpong, Acting Vice President of the
Student Representative Council (SRC), commended the team who
worked on the new website.
He appealed to the ICT Department to ensure that the website
was updated at least every two days, saying, "the problem
with the old one was that it was not updated regularly".
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