Professor Kwesi Yankah (left), Dr. Mensah Otabil (middle) and Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Adom Obeng
CENTRAL UNIVERSITY College has promised to establish a teaching hospital to facilitate practical work by nursing, physician assistants and pharmacy students.
This was announced by Professor Kwesi Yankah after his induction as President of Central University College at the Miotso campus in Accra.
According to Prof. Yankah, a modern 500-bed teaching hospital with a polyclinic was on the drawing board. He hoped that in the not-too-distant future, its construction would pave way for the establishment of the School of Medical Science.
?These efforts will be supplemented with an agenda to intensify our commitment to community work and deepen internationalization,? he noted.
Prof. Yankah said his major objective was to help dispel the impression of mediocrity erroneously associated with private university colleges, especially the misconception that they made their student selections after the best candidates had been chosen by the public universities.
He said the notion was partly propelled by the perception that the private sector played a useful role in national development only to the extent that they absorbed qualified candidates who had been declined admission into public universities.
?This misconstrued status of private universities as substitutes of a lower order should indeed give way to a new paradigm where private universities shall assume the role as viable alternatives, keen competitors and preferred destinations by parents.?
He said very soon the issue of lower fees which was often considered as a determining preference for public universities, would give way to other considerations.
Prof. Yankah said there was an increasing percentage of qualified students whose parents were prepared to substantially invest in their future in places where quality education was assured. Consequently, Central University College would strive to make such claims to quality education and become a preferred destination.
He said the mega agenda of the school was to strengthen the quality and integrity of its degree programmes through enhancing the prosecution of research, boosting the capacity of teaching and administrative staff, improving student-lecturer ratios and enhancing enrollment in under represented disciplines particularly in the arts and social sciences.
Rev. Professor Emmanuel Adom Obeng was also inducted as Vice President of the college to handle academic affairs.
By Cephas Larbi
