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French Ambassador Commissions French Language Centre at
UDS
Navrongo, Jan. 17, GNA - The University of Development
Studies (UDS) plans to extend its Bilingual Programme and
make it a major part of its curriculum.
The programme, which covers both English and French
languages and is integrated into the faculty's normal
training programme, was started three years ago and students
undertaking the course also study other subjects like
mathematics, chemistry and environmental studies in the two
languages.
Professor Kaku Nokoe, the Pro Vice Chancellor and
Co-coordinator of the French Programme, said this during the
commissioning of a French language center at the Navrongo
campus on Wednesday. The government built it at a cost of 80
million cedis.
He said the school had planned to extend the course to the
Wa and Nyankpala campuses of the university so as to take on
foreign students who wished to study both languages.
Professor John B.K. Kaburise, Vice Chancellor of the
university, said the programme would serve as a unifying
factor for Africa and would enhance regional integration and
entice Francophone investors to Ghana.
"One critical factor that will facilitate the integration of
Africa into the global world is language. The teaching of
French is very commendable because it is one of the
catalysts to the development of the continent", he said.
The Vice Chancellor said the university was producing
graduates equipped with the needed knowledge, skills and
competencies to compete favorably on the job market.
He said the French language center had problems of
inadequate staffing, lack of audio laboratory, inadequate
finance for the industrial attachment programme as well as
insufficient literature for the programme and other science
subjects.
Professor Kaburise thanked the government for supporting the
programme and for building the French Study Center.
He appealed to the French Ambassador in Ghana, Mr. Pierre
Jacquemot who commissioned the building, to continue to
support the center with finance for staff development and
the faculty's industrial attachment training programme.
Mr. Jacquemot said learning French would among other things
promote cultural diversity and improve relations between
Ghana and its French-speaking neighbours.
The students demonstrated their knowledge of the French
language in a drama and in solving mathematics problems in
French.
GNA
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