{"id":356538,"date":"2017-09-24T10:42:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T10:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=356538"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:12:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:12:04","slug":"ucc-fails-to-admit-50-of-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=356538","title":{"rendered":"UCC fails to admit 50% of applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has matriculated 5,785 regular students to pursue various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for the 2017\/2018 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The number\u00a0is less than half of a total of 12,240 applications the university received for both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-356542\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UCC-Matriculation-2.jpg\" alt=\"dav\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Out of the number, 555 are pursuing various graduate programmes, with a thirty-five percent female representation while females represent forty-one percent in both levels of programmes.<\/p>\n<p>In his address yesterday (Saturday), the Vice Chancellor of UCC, Prof Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, said the university \u201cis hoping to get to a point where we will admit more females to have a fifty-fifty (male-female) ratio\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-356541\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UCC-Matriculation-3.jpg\" alt=\"dav\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Vice-Chancellor warned the matriculants that the university will not hesitate to rusticate deviant students, advising that they should strive to stay off trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Ghartey Ampiah asserts, \u201cWe have lecturers here; we have counselors here to guide you, but if you will not listen to them and every dawn you disturb everyone and you go on all sorts of march passes and we get hold of you, then don\u2019t blame anybody\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-356540\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UCC-Matriculation-4.jpg\" alt=\"dav\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The university is currently in court over its rustication of some twenty-two students after a clash between Oguaa and Atlantic Halls in March this year, and the Vice Chancellor told the newly admitted students to make their academic life a priority over all other endeavors on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are many things we have banned because of the behaviour of students and therefore you must find out what you have to do and not to do because when you are caught in the web, we won\u2019t set you free; we are in court because we rusticated some students, and we won\u2019t mind rusticating others if you do the same thing\u201d, he further warned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-356539\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/UCC-Matriculation-5.jpg\" alt=\"dav\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He noted the university will not compromise on its acclaimed academic and disciplinary standards and advised students to eschew examination malpractices because culprits will not be spared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Joseph Ackon Mensah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has matriculated 5,785 regular students to pursue various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for the 2017\/2018 academic year. The number\u00a0is less than half of a total of 12,240 applications the university received for both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. 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