THE Chancellor of the Central University College (CUC) has announced plans to introduce new and innovative programmes that will equip graduates to stand out on the job market and meet the growing trends in available opportunities across board.
He said the innovations would be in response to the continent’s development demands and its market needs.
Dr Mensah Otabil said this at the 9th congregation of the university at its permanent campus at Miotso in the Dangme East District of the Greater Accra Region.
He said the economic transformation of the country could not be achieved without the highest quality of tertiary education.
According to him, the intensity of scientific and intellectual standards of a country is dependent upon the role each individual is willing to contribute, while society expects legitimate returns from its immense investment in university education.
Over 1,904 students graduated with degrees and master of philosophy in various disciplines from the university’s School of Theology and Missions, Business Management and Administration, Applied Science and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
The ceremony also saw eight female students sweeping all academic awards.
While congratulating the graduates for an important milestone of achieving fruitful future careers, he charged them to apply the necessary knowledge that would be beneficial to society.
Justice Mrs Sophia Akuffo, a Supreme Court Judge, who delivered the keynote address, charged society to adopt useful and positive crusades that would contribute immensely to reshaping the nation which she said was degenerating into disarray where rules and regulations were being trampled upon by all and sundry.
As we officially promote an emerging group of leaders and nation builders to another level through university education, she questioned whether we could, as a nation say we would get to our destination without adherence to laid down procedures and processes of governance.
Mrs Akuffo thus challenged the graduates to make the fruits of their studies rewarding to themselves and their families while placing their knowledge at the service of society and community.
She was optimistic that the basic quality education received from the university would drive them to touch the sky in their quest to climb higher on the wings of knowledge.
Justice Akuffo said personal values and beliefs would see some as champions.
“The champions are characterised by simple but basic principles and truths, such as humility, patriotism, loyalty, service to God and country as the value of ones’s knowledge would lie in the ability to lead or contribute to the unveiling truth,” she stated.
Earlier in his welcoming address, the President of the university, Professor Victor Patrick Yao Gadzekpo, expressed worry about the outright disrespect of the country’s core values and principles by the citizenry and charged the graduates to go all out as worthy ambassadors of an institution that had not only imparted book knowledge to them, but the principles of Godliness that was critical in developing their integrity.
A female student who graduated with a Bachelor of Science BSc in Economics, Nana Ama Dodoo, was adjudged the overall best student.
She took home a Toshiba laptop and a $1,000 cash prize donated by the chancellor of the university while Priscilla Naa Ayele Afutu who emerged the best graduating business student, received GH¢15,600 scholarship package to cover her cost of tuition for a Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme at the Tasmac London school of Business.
The Central University College founded by the International Central Gospel Church in 1991 as a Bible college was accredited as a tertiary institution in 1997 by the National Accreditation Board.
It currently runs programmes in Theology and Missions, Business Management with options in Banking and Finance, Human Resource Management and Social Sciences while feverish preparations have been made towards the introduction of Civil Engineering and Communication Studies in the 2010/11 academic year.
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