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 Quality not the number of graduates that matter - Baiden-Amissah

Cape Coast, Oct 19, GNA - Mrs Angelina Baiden-Amissah, a Deputy Minister of Education, Science and Sports, on Friday said it was not the number of graduates the universities turn out that mattered but the quality and calibre of such graduates and their ability to influence the development agenda positively.


She said it was for this reason that her ministry continued to be concerned with efforts at improving education facilities and resources for achieving goals and objectives of higher education in Ghana, specifically university education.


Mrs Baiden-Amissah, was addressing 'first session' of the 38th annual congregation of the UCC at which 2,420 grandaunts from the Centre for Continuing Education, Faculty of Arts, School of Agriculture and its affiliate Kwadaso Agricultural College and the African Virtual University (AVU), were presented with degrees, diplomas and certificates.


Mr Ernest Jackson-Kuofie won the prize for the overall best science student, with a score of 3.9 of the Grade Point Average (GPA) of four.


In all 13 obtained first class, 121, second class upper, 172, second class lower, 58, third class and three passes.


The deputy minister expressed the hope that in its quest to meet the demands of the job market, the UCC would not sacrifice quality and lauded the university's efforts to maintain high academic standards.


She lauded the UCC's strides in introducing programmes and courses geared towards meeting the needs of the job market and pledged her ministry's support for the UCC's School of Medical Sciences to ensure that the shortfall in the training of medical and dental personnel was remedied to facilitate improved health care.


Mrs Baiden-Amissah said the ministry was satisfied with the university's efforts to provide higher education for teachers and other workers through distance education and sandwich programmes.


She reiterated the call on graduates not to go out in search of greener pastures but to stay at home and use their knowledge for the benefit of society and to complement their academic achievements with positive character traits.



The Vice-Chancellor, Reverend Professor Emmanuel Adow Obeng, said the UCC's distance education programme had now "taken on an international dimension" and was on the verge of being adopted by a University in Cameroon.


He said 21,000 students, 40 per cent of them women, are undertaking the programme and four zonal centres have been set up at Bolgatanga, Kumasi, Tema and Takoradi to cater for students there and in the remaining near-by regions.


Rev Prof Obeng said with the establishment of these centres, students would no longer have to travel to the UCC for the redress of their problems and that the remaining six regions would have resident tutors by 2010 to increase managerial efficiency in distance education programmes.


He said sites have also been acquired in seven of the 10 regions to build permanent study centres and that construction work on the first phase of the project will soon begin.


The sites will in future be made campuses of the UCC to run some of the campus-based programmes.


Rev Prof Obeng said the School of Agriculture is to set up a modern technology and research farm to enhance the growth of the country's agricultural sector.


It is in the process of acquiring a 150-hectare plot of land for the project.


It has, within the past 10 years, provided assistance to more than 120,000 farmers with innovative approaches to problem solving under its Supervised Enterprise Projects (SEPs), Rev. Prof Obeng said it has also introduced new programmes at both the undergraduate and post graduate levels.


These are programmes in Animal Health, Biotechnology and Genetics and Seed Science and Technology.


The Chancellor of the UCC, Mr Sam Jonah, said he was happy that in spite of constraints, the UCC had been steadfast in its quest to develop as an "international force to reckon with" in teaching, research and service.


He said these positive developments were attributable in a large measure, to the generally peaceful atmosphere on campus and expressed the hope that there would be continued cooperation between staff and students.


GNA

 

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