FIVE KATH STAFF GRADUATE AT CSUC (GRAPHIC NSEMPA, PAGE 15)

By George Ernest Asare

FIVE employees of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) were among 287 students of the Department of Business Studies who graduated at the 32nd graduation ceremony of Christian Service University College (CSUC) at Odeneho Kwadaso in Kumasi on February 21, this year.
The ceremony was on the theme, “ Quality manpower development; the role of private universities”.
The five, Messrs Sampson Gyamfi, Emmanuel Owusu Bempa, John Owusu, Ms Yvonne Ataa Agyepong and Ms Rita Owusu have been working at KATH for some years now, and with the skills acquired, they are expected to improve on their output to enhance efficient and effective delivery of services at the hospital.
Out of the 287 students who graduated, 25 of them including seven females obtained First Class Honours, with 113 receiving Second Class Upper, while 139 graduated with Second Class (Lower Division).
In his address, the Council Chairman of the CSUC, Professor Sam Afranie, appealed to the government to initiate action for legislative reforms in the administration of the Ghana Education Trust Fund (Get Fund) to ensure that private tertiary institutions benefited tremendously from financial assistance from the state.
This, he said, would enable private tertiary institutions spread across the country, have access to the requisite educational infrastructure and logistics to facilitate the provision of quality education for qualified youth who could not enter the few and overstretched public tertiary institutions.
He pointed out that it was when the government adequately supported private tertiary institutions, just as it was doing for public ones, that the youth would be able to study in a conducive atmosphere, devoid of congestion, and develop their potentials more appropriately to enable them support sustainable national development.
Professor Afranie said the CSUC which was affiliated to the University of Ghana, was fully committed to the provision of quality education to enable them contribute meaningfully towards accelerated national development.
Professor Afranie said the University had already acquired an 11 –acre plot at Sabin Akrofrom to be developed as a second campus.
He gave the assurance that the land would be fully developed with access to hostel facilities to reduce the problem of accommodation among students.
The President of the CSUC, Professor Emmanuel Frempong, said in line with providing programmes relevant to the needs of society and national aspirations, the University would introduce a Bachelor of Science in Nursing next year.
He said the University authorities were initiating the requisite accreditation procedures for the Nursing programme.
He said already, the CSUC has introduced a programme in Communication with 43 students on admission.
Professor Frempong stated further that the CSUC had also introduced Computer Science programme which aims at equipping students with the requisite skills in computer and reduce the “ frustration of a number of students who desire to pursue education at the tertiary level, but are constrained as a result of the keen competition in the public universities”.