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New Anglican University College of
Technology
to start in 2009
Accra, Aug. 5, Ghanadot/GNA - The
international launch of the Anglican University College of
Technology of Ghana took place at the week end at the
Canterbury Campus of the University of Kent on the fringes
of the Lambert Conference and synod of the Anglican
Communion.
Speaking to an audience made up of mainly Ghanaian clergy
and officials of the Ghana High Commission in the United
Kingdom, Professor Marian Ewurama Addy, President of the
College, said the College would be a technical, ICT-based
institution, using primarily e-learning methods for
teaching.
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A statement issued in Accra on Tuesday by the Ghana High
Commission in the UK said it would be geared towards
producing graduates for the manufacturing industries for
value addition and production.
Professor Addy said values that
would characterise the graduates would be based on ideals of
Christianity including discipline, altruism, moral
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Prof. Marian Addy |
truthfulness,
patriotism as well as innovativeness.
Professor Addy said the University would be owned by the
Anglican Church of Ghana whose involvement in the
educational system in Ghana dates back to 1750.
In a homily, the Archbishop of the Province of West Africa
and the Bishop of Accra, Rt. Rev. Justice Ofei Akrofi
invited Ghanaians and friends of Ghana to invest in the
University so that at the end of the day, God’s name will be
glorified. The University, according to Bishop Akrofi, would
commence full academic business in September 2009.
In another development, the paramount chief of Chirano
Traditional Area, Okogyeman Kwaku Gyamprah III has paid a
courtesy call on Mr Annan Cato, Ghana’ High Commissioner to
the UK and Ireland.
Okogyeman Gyamprah, who was in the UK at the invitation of
Chirano citizens resident in the UK and Ireland, informed Mr
Cato that besides the visit to his subjects, he was in the
UK to look for investors to exploit the vast gold resources
the area was endowed with.
He said he would also welcome investors who would want to go
into large scale mechanised farming both for the local and
foreign markets and invited Mr Annan Cato to assist in that
direction.
Mr Cato assured him that his office would readily support
him and his traditional area to realise the objectives they
have set for themselves.
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