The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has started a building project in the Upper East Region to serve as\u00a0 one of its satellite campuses.<\/p>\n
The three-storey multipurpose building project located at Zuarungu near the Bolgatanga Municipality, when\u00a0 completed next year, will have lecture halls for both undergraduate and post-graduate students, with \u00a0ICT centres, \u00a0furnished library, laboratories, toilet facilities, and lift, among others.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the sod-cutting ceremony at Zuarungu, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor D.D. Kuupole, said the project was being funded\u00a0 from the University’s Internally Generated Funds.<\/p>\n
He said it is part of the University\u2019s\u00a0 efforts at complementing government\u2019s effort to provide accessible, quality tertiary education, and expressed the hope that it would break the cycle of poverty and help accelerate the area’s development.<\/p>\n
The Vice Chancellor\u00a0 stated that one of the reasons that informed the University to establish the campus\u00a0 was not only to make education accessible to the people alone, to cut down the hectic time students went through by\u00a0 traveling for long distances in search\u00a0 of tertiary education which of often resulted in\u00a0 some losing their lives through accidents.<\/p>\n
He commended the chiefs and people of Zuarungu for releasing such a vast land for the project, and Professor Emmanuel Abole , a lecturer of the University who is an indigene, for playing an instrumental role in the establishment of the project.<\/p>\n
The Provost in-charge of the College of Distance Education, Professor George Oduro, who kicked against the idea of Government’s decision to stop giving\u00a0Tertiary institutions subvention.<\/p>\n
He stated that the decision was not necessary since most of the tertiary educational institutions were already doing a lot, and cited the number of Satellite Campuses the University had built, as examples.<\/p>\n
The Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Daniel Syme, was full of praise to the Management\u00a0 of the University, and\u00a0 said it\u00a0 would play a major role in reducing poverty among\u00a0 people in the area,\u00a0\u00a0 as well as bring development to the region.<\/p>\n
The Deputy Minister entreated students from the region to take advantage of the facility, and\u00a0\u00a0 said it would also help attract students from\u00a0 neigbouring countries,\u00a0 like Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo , Niger\u00a0 and Mali, which was closer to the Region.<\/p>\n
The chiefs and people of Zuarungu expressed happiness about the project, and\u00a0 pledged to co-operate with the contractor to complete the project on time.<\/p>\n
They announced that they had secured and mapped another area\u00a0\u00a0 that could be used for a similar purpose , and invited other tertiary institutions which would want to widen their scope into the region, not to hesitate to contact them.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has started a building project in the Upper East Region to serve as\u00a0 one of its satellite campuses. The three-storey multipurpose building project located at Zuarungu near the Bolgatanga Municipality, when\u00a0 completed next year, will have lecture halls for both undergraduate and post-graduate students, with \u00a0ICT centres, \u00a0furnished library, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[16],"yoast_head":"\n