The Provost of the College of Distance Education, Professor Isaac Galyuon has announced the College will soon introduce PhD programmes as part of its post graduate module of graduate education. Professor Galyuon said a committee will soon be inaugurated to oversee the restructuring of the college’s mandates to enable it run more programmes available on the regular module.

He explained that this initiative is important recognizing the urgent quest for many people to graduate education in the country but are unable because of work and distance.

Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has assured management of University of Cape Coast that his office will ensure the early completion of an ongoing School of Graduate Studies office complex at the university.

Dr. Opoku Prempeh gave the assurance upon a request made by the Vice Chancellor, Professor Joseph Ghartey Ampiah at the 17th Session of the 50th Congregation of the University for Graduate students last Saturday.

The overall best graduating student of the Institute of Education, UCC, Mr. Ransford Owusu has called on his fellow graduates to strive for higher heights in order to fit into the ever changing and growing trends of society.

Staff of the Komenda College of Education say the college will near collapse if the Ministry of Education does not revise its educational reforms to reintroduce the general education programme which has been the main and most preferred programme of training for most students of the college since the college was established.

Vice Chancellor of University of Cape Coast, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah delivering his address

Vice Chancellor of University of Cape Coast, Prof. Joseph Ghartey Ampiah has announced that the Institute of Education, in collaboration with selected departments in the College of Education Studies, has rolled out post-diploma programmes.

These programmes will lead to the award of Bachelor of Education degrees; Bachelor of Education (Social Studies), (Arts), (Mathematics), (Science), (Social Studies), (Home Economics), (Management), (Accounting) and (Information Technology).

This forms part of the current reforms by the Ministry of Education at the Colleges of Education which according to the Vice Chancellor has been embraced by the University.

Council Chairperson of University of Cape Coast, Mrs. Nancy Thompson

The Council Chairperson of University of Cape Coast, Mrs. Nancy Thompson has charged the university to transform its knowledge and research base to attract funding from relevant stakeholders in order to improve and promote higher education.

She notes many stakeholders in higher education including governments and development partners strongly believe that the major resource that can have an enormous contribution to the sustainability of the development of countries is knowledge.