Students of the University of Ghana would receive education on the need to stay healthy and strive for higher education. Y107.9 FM in partnership with the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands will on Monday, 18th May hold a special forum for students of the University of Ghana.
Dubbed “The World We Want”, the event will take off with a bike tour in the morning on the University Campus to highlight and drum home the relevance of staying healthy as young adults. An interactive student debate on higher education will follow the exercise later in the day from 10am to 12 noon at the ISSER Conference Hall at the University of Ghana.
Expressing their delight in projecting such a thoughtful initiative, Ms. Naomi Nelson, Head of Corporate Communications at Global Media Alliance, parent Company of YFM noted that “As a station specially designed for the young and the young at heart, finding innovative ways to educate and motivate the youth while entertaining them with our range of programs, is a responsibility we hold very dear. It is therefore with great pleasure that we welcome this initiative by the Netherlands Embassy. Debate among students is subtly dying in the country but it is a great foundation on which students can express their thoughts and learn from other schools of thoughts.”
“We thank the Netherlands Embassy and the Student Representative Council of University of Ghana for this partnership and we look forward to a memorable day” she concluded.
Y FM is known for similar remarkable associations with other platforms such as the BBC, Sabido in South Africa and Jakaranda Radio in SA, as well as outstanding events and activations like Loud In GH, Y Hood Games and the Y Area Codes.
Source: Global Media Alliance
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Friday, May 15, 2015
Monday, April 27, 2015
University of Ghana acquires software to detect plagiarism
The University of Ghana has deployed software under its current e-Learning platform that detects plagiarism in all forms, from class assignments to project works and other academic work.
The software which is part of the university’s e-Learning management system called Sakai is aimed at enhancing original thought among students and promoting excellent academic work.
The Dean of Distance Learning of the University of Ghana, Legon, Prof. Yaw Oheneba Sekyi, who disclosed this to the media after the 2015 matriculation at the Kumasi Learning Centre, said all the distance learning campuses of the school had been connected through a fibre optic to the main campus at Legon in Accra.
He said the students had also been offered android-based tablets which were web-based and allowed students to access course materials electronically and submit assignments as well as interact among themselves on the same platform.
Vice Chancellor
In a speech read on his behalf, the Vice- Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ernest Aryeetey, announced that the university recently through the government secured a $37.5 million ICT project for its distance education programme.
He said under the project, the Accra, Koforidua, Sunyani, Takoradi, Tamale, Tsito and Wa learning centres have been equipped with modern facilities with ultra-modern computer laboratories and smart classrooms.
The rest are video conference facilities, backup generating sets and outdoor Wi-Fi, while 3,000 Internet-enabled android tablets, preloaded with relevant teaching and learning materials have been distributed to students.
In all, 1,184 students were enrolled for the 2014/2015 academic year.
Prof. Aryeetey said students admitted for Distance Education this year would have all tutorials and examinations in their centres, without having to come down to Legon as had been the practice.
Source: By Donald Ato Dapatem, Graphic.com.gh
The software which is part of the university’s e-Learning management system called Sakai is aimed at enhancing original thought among students and promoting excellent academic work.
The Dean of Distance Learning of the University of Ghana, Legon, Prof. Yaw Oheneba Sekyi, who disclosed this to the media after the 2015 matriculation at the Kumasi Learning Centre, said all the distance learning campuses of the school had been connected through a fibre optic to the main campus at Legon in Accra.
He said the students had also been offered android-based tablets which were web-based and allowed students to access course materials electronically and submit assignments as well as interact among themselves on the same platform.
Vice Chancellor
In a speech read on his behalf, the Vice- Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Prof. Ernest Aryeetey, announced that the university recently through the government secured a $37.5 million ICT project for its distance education programme.
He said under the project, the Accra, Koforidua, Sunyani, Takoradi, Tamale, Tsito and Wa learning centres have been equipped with modern facilities with ultra-modern computer laboratories and smart classrooms.
The rest are video conference facilities, backup generating sets and outdoor Wi-Fi, while 3,000 Internet-enabled android tablets, preloaded with relevant teaching and learning materials have been distributed to students.
In all, 1,184 students were enrolled for the 2014/2015 academic year.
Prof. Aryeetey said students admitted for Distance Education this year would have all tutorials and examinations in their centres, without having to come down to Legon as had been the practice.
Source: By Donald Ato Dapatem, Graphic.com.gh
The University of Ghana holds three simultaneous matriculation at Distance Education (DE) Learning Centres.
Accra, April 27, GNA – The University of Ghana (UG) for the first time, has held three simultaneous matriculation at its Accra City Campus, Kumasi, and Tamale Distance Education (DE) Learning Centres.
Matriculants at the Accra City Campus were drawn from Accra, Cape Coast, Tsito, Koforidua and Takoradi Learning Centres, while that of the Kumasi and Sunyani centres took place in Kumasi; whereas the Tamale centre hosted students from Tamale, Bolgatanga and Wa centres.
Addressing the matriculants at the Accra City Campus, Professor Ernest Ayittey, the Vice Chancellor (VC) of UG, said, for the first time, matriculation ceremonies were being held concurrently in three regional learning centres, as part of the long-term goal to transform the regional centres into satellite campuses of the University.
He said there had being a number of changes in the DE mode of the University starting from the 2014/2015 academic year which aimed at improving on delivery and making the distance learning mode more attractive to students.
The VC mentioned that one of such changes was the restructuring and expansion of the programmes on offer.
Prof Ayittey announced that programmes being offered had been expanded to include Nursing and Information Technology.
He said the Nursing programme, run in conjunction with the School of Nursing, had proven to be particularly popular in most regional centres.
He disclosed that a total of 653 applications were received this academic year for Nursing, out of which 513 were admitted and 450 enrolled, representing 38 per cent of the total number of enrolled DE students.
The VC said the Bachelor of Science in Administration and Bachelor of Arts programmes remained popular choices for their DE students, with 346 and 367 students respectively accepting offers this academic year.
He pointed out that there were 21 students enrolled in their newly-introduced Bachelor of Science programme in Information Technology, which for this academic year was being offered at the Accra City Campus.
On the general enrolment, the VC observed that figures for the 2014/2015 academic year were up from last year’s figure of 775 to 1184, representing a 52 per cent increase.
“We are working hard as a University to not only to increase the numbers of our students in the Distance Learning mode, but also to improve the facilities and learning experiences that our students have,” Prof Ayittey stated.
“Starting from this year, DE students were admitted to their regional centres, and with the improvement of facilities in the centres, the students will have all tutorials and examinations in their centres, without having to come down to Legon, as has been the practice over the years,” he added.
He said the collegiate system which was implemented at the beginning of this academic year would provide more room for innovations at the school and college levels, and the semi-autonomous nature of the colleges would enable them take more decisions on their academic programmes and administration.
Prof Ayittey recounted that the University recently inaugurated a $ 37.5 million Information Communication Technology (ICT) project for its DE programme under the Chinese Phase Two ICT Project.
He said the project, funded with a Chinese Government loan procured by the Ghana Government on behalf of UG, had deployed an integrated Digital Mobile Learning platform for DE.
“This is part of a larger set of activities reflecting the strong desire of UG to use ICT as a major strategy in achieving its future goals,” Prof Ayittey said.
The VC said as part of the project, the Accra, Koforidua, Sunyani, Takoradi, Tsito and Wa Centres had been equipped with modern facilities; with each centre provided with ultra-modern computer labs, smart classrooms, a video conference facility, backup generators and outdoor Wi-Fi.
He noted that in addition, as part of the project; 3000 internet enabled android tablets had been acquired; pre-loaded with the relevant teaching and learning materials, and distributed to newly admitted students.
Prof Ayittey said the DE programme was therefore, in the process of moving away from paper-based teaching materials to Sakai, an eLearning platform, which has enhanced teaching and learning.
“Also as part of the plan to grow regional learning centres into campuses of the University, work has started on the rehabilitation and refurbishment of the regional learning centres,” the VC said.
Prof Ayittey further urged the students to take their studies seriously and determine to be part of the 2017 and 2018 graduating classes for those admitted to level 200 and 100 respectively.
Source: Ghana News Agency
Saturday, April 18, 2015
Legon SRC Prez tried bribing me – Election IT Expert
The IT expert who designed the software for the conduct of the University of Ghana students’ elections, Stephen Forson has revealed that the current President of the Students Representative Council (SRC) tried to bribe him to manipulate the elections in favour of his preferred candidate.
Mr. Forson revealed on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme on Friday April 17, 2015 that Mr. Joshua Dogbey and two others including the losing candidate in the April 9, 2015 SRC election, Mikdad Muhammad sneaked into his house at midnight in the days leading to the elections to try to induce him to rig the elections for a candidate in the elections.
Citing his pregnant wife as his witness, he continued that the team from Legon promised to extend his contract with the University SRC if he does their bidding for their candidate to win.
IPRO Solutions Ltd has a five year contract with the University of Ghana (2012-2016), and also runs elections for all the polytechnics and some universities in the country.
"When they tried and they didn’t succeed, they thought others have also done so…the executioner fears to always lie with his head up of course…,” he revealed.
News emerged this week that the IT expert was taken into the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) following the complaints of a losing candidate.
Mr. Forson said he was taken from his home by about six persons who claimed to be BNI officers in the presence of his pregnant wife in the early hours of Wednesday April 15.
The officers, he said came with an arrest warrant which they failed to allow him to read with "one threatening to shoot my barking dog if it is not controlled."
“Just then I knew they were carrying guns so I never resisted them and they took me to the headquarters of the BNI around Ridge…,” he said.
After spending some days in the custody of the BNI where he was denied visitation, Mr. Forson said he was finally released yesterday around 7:00 PM with his electrical gadgets seized by the security agency. He is to report to the BNI twice a week.
Mr. Forson who said he has a company which trains and employs some of the Ghanaian youth said among other things that his heart bleeds for the country "because of the intimidation of young entrepreneurs and the too many lies in the country now."
“Lies have become so rampant that those who try to say the truth become enemies of the state…we all know how to talk…,” he said.
He would soon be holding a press conference to reveal the names of people who tried to bribe him and have subsequently threatened his life and business, after taking legal advice, he disclosed.
Source: Ghana | adomonline.com | KWAKU NTI
Mr. Forson revealed on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme on Friday April 17, 2015 that Mr. Joshua Dogbey and two others including the losing candidate in the April 9, 2015 SRC election, Mikdad Muhammad sneaked into his house at midnight in the days leading to the elections to try to induce him to rig the elections for a candidate in the elections.
Citing his pregnant wife as his witness, he continued that the team from Legon promised to extend his contract with the University SRC if he does their bidding for their candidate to win.
IPRO Solutions Ltd has a five year contract with the University of Ghana (2012-2016), and also runs elections for all the polytechnics and some universities in the country.
"When they tried and they didn’t succeed, they thought others have also done so…the executioner fears to always lie with his head up of course…,” he revealed.
News emerged this week that the IT expert was taken into the custody of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) following the complaints of a losing candidate.
Mr. Forson said he was taken from his home by about six persons who claimed to be BNI officers in the presence of his pregnant wife in the early hours of Wednesday April 15.
The officers, he said came with an arrest warrant which they failed to allow him to read with "one threatening to shoot my barking dog if it is not controlled."
“Just then I knew they were carrying guns so I never resisted them and they took me to the headquarters of the BNI around Ridge…,” he said.
After spending some days in the custody of the BNI where he was denied visitation, Mr. Forson said he was finally released yesterday around 7:00 PM with his electrical gadgets seized by the security agency. He is to report to the BNI twice a week.
Mr. Forson who said he has a company which trains and employs some of the Ghanaian youth said among other things that his heart bleeds for the country "because of the intimidation of young entrepreneurs and the too many lies in the country now."
“Lies have become so rampant that those who try to say the truth become enemies of the state…we all know how to talk…,” he said.
He would soon be holding a press conference to reveal the names of people who tried to bribe him and have subsequently threatened his life and business, after taking legal advice, he disclosed.
Source: Ghana | adomonline.com | KWAKU NTI
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