UCC Vice-Chancellor breaks-ground to commence construction of graduate school complex



The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, UCC Professor Domwini Kuupole has cut the sod to commence the construction of a graduate school complex for the University.  

The project to be funded from the Get Fund under the Ministry of Education would provide a conducive environment for teaching, learning and research; and increase physical visibility of graduate education in the university.  

The three story building complex which is being sited opposite the College of Distance Education new site is expected to be completed in 24 months.  

It will comprise a graduate resource centre, ten seminar halls, 15 offices for teaching and non-teaching staff, two small halls, a large lecture hall, offices of the Dean and Vice Dean as well as the Registrar, a conference hall and a board room.  

Prof Kuupole, said the School of Graduate Studies since its inception in the 1980’s has never had a permanent building. 

The building complex when completed would allow for innovation and better management of graduate programmes as graduate work is the hallmark of every university. 

Currently, the school runs 259 graduate programmes with total student enrollment of four thousand 599 representing 8 per cent of the university’s total enrollment.  

Dean of Graduate Studies, Professor Ernest Laryea Okorley, said a permanent complex for the graduate school is long overdue saying the project when completed would create an enabling environment for meaningful academic work.

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