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at 10:03 0
 
 A  total of 4,010 fresh students took the matriculation oath of UPSA on Friday, October 20, 2017 to commence the 2017/18 academic year. This figure which includes undergraduate, graduate and post graduate students is the highest intake since the start of degree programs by the University.







Expectations of students from Ms. Sarah Odei-Amoani. In as much as the University expects from the students to perform in their endeavors, the students also expect from the University to provide them with the needed facilities and a conducive environment of studies.


The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra, Prof. Abednego F. Okoe preresides over his first matriculation ceremony. He advised the matriculants to abide by the University rules and work at becoming totally transformed individuals.

The second batch of Batchlor of Law Student of the University of Professional Studies, Accra. With the Dean of the Faculty of Law.



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The executive body of the Students' Representative Council has indeed been saddened by the event of last night. Our hearts painfully aches as we reflect on yesterday's tragedy (Gas explosion) and we stand with all those who were directly or indirectly affected by this mayhem.

The aforementioned event has rekindled and confirmed fears already harboured by the students populace regarding the possible threat of the Sel filling station which is just a few meters from the premises of our beloved institution.
We would like to state that we share in these sentiments but will like to call on all students to support the SRC with full force in this time of turmoil so that we can effectively and permanently deal with the issue at hand.
We would like to categorically state that we will not rest until we permanently resolve this issues and we will call on all student leaders and indeed all students on campus to also come on board and let us do this right.
We are therefore sending this strong signal to the management of the Sel filling station, EPA, NPA and the La Nkwantanan Municipal Assembly that if measures are not taken to close down the filling station, we the students of UPSA will be forced to
protect our lives by embarking on an intensive demonstration that will compel the Sel filling station to be closed with immediate effect.
We therefore employ all students to vehemently stand behind the SRC as we follow due processes for our grievance to be addressed properly.
All students should therefore prepare to hear and support the SRC executive council with the decision we will be making tonight on this matter.
This we believe will only be possible together.
Long live the SRC
Long live UPSA
And May The Good Lord Bless Us All.
Signed:
Oha Evans
SRC Vice President.
Issued;
Kwawukumey Winston
SRC PRO.(☎0247458077)
Under the Authority of Justice Gadugah,
SRC President, UPSA
#IT'S_POSSIBLE_TOGETHER
upsasrc2016@gmail.com
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at 08:41 0
Isn’t it disheartening to have spent so much money, time and energy on a University Education, only for you to join the league of unemployed graduates after completion?

The menace of graduate unemployment has being with us from time immemorial.
Unfortunately, we are yet to see results as successive government’s effort to control the perturbing challenge proves fruitless.

It is in this light that the Local NUGS outfit of the University of Education, Winneba couldn’t have considered a better theme for this year’s Excellence Awards Night than “The Role of Academia in Helping to curb Unemployment in Ghana”

In throwing more light on the theme, Enoch Ansah, the local NUGS president bemoaned the prevailing unemployment rate in the country with its unfavourable effects on the development of the country.

In addition, he was poignant at government’s inability to attract into second cycle institutions graduates of education universities such as University of Education, Winneba and University of Cape Coast.

Meanwhile, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong, a business mogul and one of Ghana’s astute politician will be delivering the keynote address on the theme for the year.

Dr. Smith Graham, CEO of Fair Wages and Salary Commission Ghana, will be chairing the occasion with the strong backing of personalities such as Hon. Derrick Ohene Bokoe ( MP Upper West), Michael Paa-Quecy Adu (Fmr. NUGS President) and Mr. Julian Mawusi Kobina, the current NUGS president.

Watch this space as we countdown to the main event come 7th of April, 2017.
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The Member of Parliament for Nsawam Aduagyire, Annor Dompreh has urged the presidency to wean itself off the Scholarship Secretariat and allow an independently constituted body to run the agency.This, he said, will ensure that political influences are reduced to the barest minimum.




It will also enable professionals with expertise in scholarship administration to manage and strengthen the secretariat to deliver on its mission.
Making a statement on the floor of Parliament on reforming and decentralizing the operations of the scholarship secretariat, the MP indicated that the operations of the secretariat do not appear to be regulated by any statute.
“Everything appears to be at the discretion of the National Coordinator,” Mr. Annor Dompreh stated.
He expressed concern about the suffering that rural folks go through to access the Scholarship Secretariat. He noted that access to the facility has been restricted by centralization, when the the secretariat is to provide financial support to brilliant but needy students across the country.
According to him, manifestly, many financially handicapped parents reside in remote areas with their brilliant but needy children.
“Many of such people have never been to the nation’s capital and as such do not know of the existence of the scholarship facility or even when they do, they are unfamiliar with the process of procuring the application forms,” he noted.
Emphasizing on decentralization, the MP also said there are many poor people who do not have the money to even travel to Accra for the forms, this he said is a worrying situation. He added that the location of the secretariat alone defeats the purpose of making it accessible to the very people who are supposed to benefit from it.
He recommended that a secretariat is established in all the ten regions and possibly in all districts to increase accessibility as well as broaden the scope of the scheme.
The former Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa supported the statement made by Annor Dompreh, asking that the forms are made available on the internet for applicants.
He revealed that in the erstwhile administration, he noticed that GETFUND was awarding more scholarships than the Scholarship Secretariat itself.
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The National Service Scheme (NSS), has finally approved an increment of allowances for service personnel from GHs 350 to GHs 559.
It said the increment takes effect from April 1, 2017.

The scheme had debunked various reports of an approval of the amount few weeks ago.The erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) government had announced an increment of the service allowances from the GHs350 to GHs559.04 in the final minute of its administration, but the increment was not effected when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government assumed office in January 2017.
The acting NSS Executive Director, Ussif Mustapha, said the increment could not be effected because it was not captured in the government’s 2017 budget.
It also announced that it had submitted a proposal to parliament for approval of the increment which was yet to be granted.
But a statement issued by the scheme on Wednesday, 29th March, 2017, said the upward adjustment has been approved.
“The Management of the National Service Scheme (NSS) wishes to inform national service personnel and the general public that the government has approved an upward adjustment of national service personnel allowances from GH¢350.00 a month to GH¢559.04 a month with effect from 1st April, 2017.”
“While thanking the government for its positive response to Management’s request for the increment, Management wishes also to express its gratitude to national service personnel for their patience and fruitful periodic engagements and discussions with Management on the subject matter,” a statement from the scheme said.
“Management wishes, therefore, to urge all national service personnel to reciprocate this gesture by further committing themselves to working even harder to support the government’s effort at improving the economy,” the statement signed by Ussif Mustapha said.
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Ghana's former president John Dramani Mahama is set to resume his book tour for his highly talked about autobiography, My First Coup D’état: Memories from the Lost Decades of Africa, across Africa.

In 2012, ex-president Mahama (then Vice President) published his book, My First Coup D’état and concluded a four-city launch programme in the United States of America. The main launch of the book took place at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, New York on Tuesday, 10th July, 2012.
Following a successful and well-organized book-singing tour in four cities including New York, Washington DC, Houston and Los Angeles in the U.S.A, then Vice President Mahama planned together with his team to launch the book in major cities in Ghana- Accra, Kumasi, Ho, Tamale, etc.
However, these launch programmes were suspended when the leadership role of this country fell in his laps after the sudden passing of President John Atta-Mills on 24th July, 2012, and later successfully won his substantive term as president of Ghana.
Months after unsuccessful second term bid in Ghana's 2016 presidential election, Mr Mahama is set to embark on a launch and book-signing tour across Africa.
Speaking at a his book reading at the University of Ghana, Legon organised by the English department and the New York University, ex-president Mahama announced that plans are underway to launch in Nairobi, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria.
"We have plan also to go to East Africa to launch in Nairobi, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria," Mr Mahama said.
He read excerpts from the book and also shared with the audience his experiences and memories of life as a young kid in the 1960s.
Tuesday’s book reading was attended by former ministers of State, some known NDC party members, students of University of Ghana.
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The Secretary General of the All Africa Students' Union (AASU), Mr Peter Kodjie, has said that the focus of liberation for women should be equity and not equality.He argued that if a person had been disadvantaged or cheated for a long time, he/she does not need equality but a fair playing ground to compete.


God in his own wisdom created men and women biologically differently to complement each other and without one being inferior to the other "therefore our focus should be on equity and not equality".
Mr Kodjie, was speaking at a Career Women and Leadership Summit organized by the Women's Commission of the Graduate Students' Association of Ghana (GRASAG)- University of Professional Studies Accra (UPSA) in collaboration with Youth Without Borders, a non-governmental organization that focuses on harnessing the potential of young people for sustainable growth and development.
Addressing participants at the summit, the Women's Commissioner, Miss Gifty Ofosua stated that, the world still faces persistent gap in access to opportunities and decision-making power for women and men despite substantial efforts and measures towards gender parity.
Women's Commissioner, Miss Gifty Ofosua

She said, the leadership summit themed 'Everyday Governance; The Career Woman's Perspective,' was to provide the platform to delve much deeper on some of the contemporary issues regarding gender parity. Also, to empower women by increasing their sense of self-worth and ability to effect change.
The chairman of the program, Mr Monipaak Ibrahim remarked that solutions to issues pertaining to discrimination against women should not be targeted solely at women but also at structures and systems in our society that perpetuate unjust distribution of resources and power.
Speaking on the topic 'The feminine side of corporate life,' Clients Services Director at Focus One Group, Miss Yaa Poakwaa Sarpomaa called on women to take delight in acquiring more valuable skills to make them competitive at their workplaces.

Clients Services Director at Focus One Group, Miss Yaa Poakwaa Sarpomaa

She said, the corporate world is not for every other woman. She argued that, although there is space for women in the corporate world, opportunities in there will not come to you [the woman] just because you are a female. She added that women who have succeeded in their various fields, have chalked those successes out of hard work and diligence, not because they were women.
She noted that, despite the modest success chalked by women, those within the corporate world till have to double their efforts if the fight for gender equity is to be achieved.
The Executive Director of Damsel Foundation, Miss Beatrice Annangfio also urged women to liberate themselves mentally by breaking out of the old socially-constructed roles and responsibilities that societies consider appropriate for them.

Executive Director of Damsel Foundation, Miss Beatrice Annangfio

Addressing participants on the topic 'Women in Governance, the way forward,' Miss Annangfio advised women to develop thicker skin and gently hurl negative criticisms in the trash, and keep their focus.
On her part, Lawyer Nana Abena Asoh Owusu provided some legal education on spousal rights as far as women are concerned. She said in every marriage, both the man and the woman have an equal stake in the union. She added that couples should see themselves as equals in order to foster good and lasting relationships. She spoke on the topic 'Current trends in spousal rights; a must know for today's woman'.
Lawyer Nana Abena Asoh Owusu

The President of GRASAG National, Mr Rashid Kwesi Etuaful, who graced the occasion admonished women to fight for what is due them.

President of GRASAG National, Mr Rashid Kwesi Etuaful

Other leaders present were President of GRASAG-UPSA, Mr Robert Ofusu Appea, Executives of GRASAG National, Presidents and Executives of other institutions, and staff of Youth Without Borders.





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at 07:15 0
Justice of the Supreme Court, His Lordship Justice Jones Victor Mawulom Dotse, has charged technical universities to support the work of artisans by creating the necessary linkages with artisans to ensure knowledge transfer and contribute meaningfully to national development.

He said the universities must link up with the industrialists, practical craftsmen and artisans, and provide them with theoretical support in their fabrication and manufacture of small scale industrial machines.
According to Justice Dotse, this is the surest way to make theory and practice complement each other.
"My charge to the Ho Technical University is that, in order to maintain the legacies of Vodzi and Afeti, the university must create the necessary linkages and interface with those who are practice in the various vocations and trades," he said.
Justice Dotse was delivering the maiden Afeti -Vodzi Lectures at Ho Technical University (HTU).
The lecture was instituted to celebrate the works of Dr. George Mawusi Afeti and the late Mr. James Yaovi Vodzi and the roles they played to transition Ho Polytechnic, now Ho Technical University, into a tertiary institution.
Dr Afeti took over from Mr Vodzi as principal of the then Ho Polytechnic.

Assessing the leadership roles of both honorees, Justice Dotse remarked "Vodzi, like John the Baptist, prepared the way for Dr. Afeti. I can say that, both Vodzi and Afeti were persons who exhibited a high degree of confidence and integrity in their work. Dr. Afeti on the other hand, came to explore the dreams he had about technical education and decidedly raised it to greater heights," said Justice Dotse.
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National Students' Awards (NSA) Ghana has announced opening of nominations for the 2017 edition of the annual awards.
A statement signed by the Executive Director of NSA, Prince David Orchillland copied to campusupdatenewsgh.com, states the organizers wished to notify the general public that nominations have opened for 2017 edition of the prestigious NSA from Monday, 20th March, 2017 to Thursday, 31st August, 2017.
To nominate a person or corporate entity for category A and B, kindly visit our website on www.nsaghana.com. However, nominators for category C, D and E may simply send an email stating the person being nominated, contact details and state clearly why that person or entity should be honoured.

Below is the statement form NSA Ghana:
We wish to bring to the notice of all and Sundry of the opening of nominations for the 2017 edition of the prestigious National Students Awards(NSA).
Nominations open on Monday,20th March, 2016 till Thursday, 31st August, 2017.
The award categories have been listed below; however nominees and nominators are entreated to meticulously read through the NSA Ghana Handbook 2017 to be familiar with the eligibility and requirements for each category.
AWARD CATEGORIES FOR NSA GHANA 2017
A. STUDENT HALL OF FAME
1. Student Personality of the year
2. Most Innovative Student in Engineering
3. Most Innovative student in IT
4. Most Outstanding Student in Agriculture
5. Showbiz Personality of the Year
6. Sports Personality of the Year
7. President of the Year
8. Prefect of the Year (Basic Level)
9. Prefect of the Year (High School)
10. Prefect of the Year (College Level)
11. Secretary of the Year
12. Women Commissioner of the Year
13. Treasurer /Financial Secretary/Financial Controller of the year
14. Student Entrepreneur of the Year
15. Student Journalist of the Year
16. Author of the Year
17. Hall of the Year
18. Campus Group of the Year
19. IMANI Student Research Fellow of the year
20. Blogger of the year
21. Activist of the year
22. Rising Star of the year
23. Association/Union of the Year
24. Chief Justice of the Year
25. GNUTS Ambassador of the Year
26. Physically Challenged Personality of the Year
27. TTAG Sector of the Year
B. CORPORATE PLATINUM AWARDS
1. Students Bank of the Year
2. Students Insurer of the Year
3. Students Bookshop of the Year
4. Students Telecommunications Company of the Year
5. Students Beverage of the Year
6. Students Television Station of the Year
7. Students Radio Station of the Year
8. Students News Paper of the Year
9. Students Online News Portal of the Year
10. Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of the Year
11. Students Airline of the Year
C. EDUCATIONAL AMBASSADORS AWARDS
This category is for Ghanaian Citizens or foreign Nationals who received their education in Ghana, and are contributing significantly to the progress of education in Ghana, Africa, or the world at large.
D. STUDENT AMBASSADORS AWARDS
This category is in honour of former student leaders who distinguished themselves in service to the students of Ghana during their tenure in office and are still contributing to the progress of education in Ghana.
E. MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARDS
This category is for individuals, corporate groups, students, and student leaders who have and are still contributing significantly to educational development in Ghana; considering keenly the year in question.
To nominate a person or corporate entity for category A and B, kindly visit our website on www.nsaghana.com. However, nominators for category C, D and E may simply send an email stating the person being nominated, contact details and state clearly why that person or entity should be honoured.
This year's National Students Awards (NSA) promise to be bigger and better; and we wish all prospective nominees well.

Thank you
Signed
Prince David Orchilll 
Executive Director 
NSA Ghana 
0203244855 // 0249774457 
www.nsaghana.com 
Email: mynsa.gh@gmail.com
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An Associate Professor at the University of Ghana Medical School, Professor Alex Duodu, has urged the government to consider rewarding lecturers based on innovation and not academic papers.
Prof Duodu believes this will encourage universities to produce research papers tailored to solving societal challenges.
He says the time is ripe for Ghana to harness its university expertise in solving its problems than resorting to foreign assistance.
“Let’s solve our dumsor [power challenges], preserve our foods and produce for exports and solve our problems ourselves,” he reiterates.
He admits, however, that his suggestion will require a radical transformation of the mindset of the Ghanaian.
The clinical pharmacologist is worried many promising research works sit and gather dust at the various universities.
He wants industries that utilize university research to enhance output and improve productivity be given tax exemptions.
“Why should industries sit with problems when universities are there, let them bring them out and if the universities can’t solve them then the industries/government would have to cry”, he said.
He spoke to Luv News at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Week Celebration, under the theme, “Collaborative research and health: The way forward in Ghana”.
Meanwhile, Pro-vice chancellor of the school, Rev. Professor Charles Ansah, reveals plans are in place to enable inter-collegiate collaboration to target industry based research.
“What we need to do is to look at the research again re engineer it to be able to impact on the people that we serve and particularly those in the rural areas who cannot afford basic medicine,” he said.
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A new students union, The Eastern Region Students Union of University of Ghana (ERSU), that seeks to bring together students from the Eastern Region of Ghana has been founded and registered by student, Gabriel Opare.
Gabriel, upon realising that almost all regions of Ghana have representative student unions on campus, decided that the Eastern region that houses some of the best secondary schools in Ghana, certainly deserved to also be represented well in the university by way of a student union.
One can confidently say that the Volta Region Students’ Association, Brong Ahafo Students Union, Ga-Adangbe Students Union, and Northern Students Union now exercise a great deal of influence on campus. Gabriel thought it was high time students from the Eastern Region did so too.
ERSU for short was instituted and endorsed by the Dean of Student Affairs of University of Ghana, and its activities on campus are now legitimate. Gabriel as default founding president appointed, late last semester, nine executives to help him raise awareness about the club and also get new members to join. Next semester, they will step down to make way for the first elected executives of the union.
A call is therefore being made to all Eastern Region students to join this worthy cause to collectively fight for their interest on UG campus.
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The American University of Nigeria (AUN) has won the maiden edition of the Africa Regional Peer-to-Peer: Challenging Extremism Competition held in Accra.
The University for Development Studies (UDS) in Ghana was the first runner-up, while the second runner-position went to the Tunis Business School (TBS).
The AUN was represented by Ms Zamiyat Abubakar, Abdulmalik Garbage Aminu, Exploits Nicholas, Hafiz S. Michika and Mohammed Chubado Ahmed.
The UDS contingents include Joseph Dabi-Arkoh, Kpatsa Korsi A. Thomas, Randa Nsenkyire, Hamidatu Abdul Rahman and Michael Abboh.
The TBS contestants consist of Haythem Rabti, Monem Ezzerelli, Badis Laabidi and Aymen Latoya.

For their prizes, AUN received $ 5,000, while the UDS had $ 3,000, whereas the TBS went home with $ 1,000.
This is the first time an Africa Regional Peer-to-Peer Challenge on Extremism Competition is being organised, although globally it has being going on for the past 17 years.
The competition had been designed to empower students around the world to develop and execute campaigns and media strategies against extremism that are credible, authentic and viewable to their peers and resonate within their communities.
The finalists of the Africa Regional Competition were selected through a series of contests involving 27 universities on the continent.
The AUN, UDS and the TBS would now have to face off with winners from others continents to be held in the United States later this year.
Team AUN spoke on the topic: “I am a believer,” UDS: “Voice for Change,” and TBS: “Tell somebody to be reasonable.”
The topics of the various teams sought to promote religious and cultural tolerance.
The competition was organised by the Africa Centre for Security and Counter Terrorism (ACSC), in collaboration with Facebook, Edventure Partners and the States Department of the United States.
Mr Emmanuel Kotin, the Head of Programmes, ACSC, in his address during the competition said: “The threat posed by fundamentalists elements in the world appears not to be waning as several groups continue to join the bandwagon of terrorism.
“The importance of the Peer-to-Peer Challenging Extremism Competition cannot be overemphasised. The world has reached a point where we need a concerted effort to addressing the problem of violent extremism,” he added.
He noted that increasingly many fundamentalists groups hid under religion to advance their agenda that end up killing and embarrassing the religions they identified with.
Mr Kotin said working in concert to make the world a safe place should therefore, be the responsibility of all manner of people including the young men and women in tertiary institutions.
“It is on this basis that I find this programme and competition in Africa and especially Ghana very encouraging and timely.
“Time and again because of the sophisticated nature of terrorism, many African countries are becoming safe havens for fundamentalists groups,” he stated.
He said attacks were occurring in a number of countries on the continent and it was looking like there was no end in sight.
“Especially, we have seen attacks in the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Cameroon.
“Many experts believe that Africa is increasingly becoming synonymous with terrorism,” Mr Kotin said.
He mentioned that the factors that were conducive to terrorism such as poverty, religious fundamentalism and human rights violations seem to account for the prevalence of these fundamentalists behaviours on the continent.
He urged Africa governments to work towards addressing the problems of terrorism, since it hinders investors.
“Governments in the continent must act with dispatch on the many unemployed youth who our economies are leaving behind,” he said.
Mr Kotin also appealed to academic institutions on the continent to endeavour to have units that teach and conduct research on the potential effects of fundamentalism in Africa.
Ms Sarah F. Shabbir, the Cultural Attache at the United States Embassy in Accra, called for religious and cultural tolerance among all and sundry.
Madam Ekua Gyekye of Facebook said Facebook attaches much importance to the issue of overcoming terrorism.
She said counter terrorism requires positive messaging; adding that “we believe that young people have a part to play in combating terrorism”.
Mr Tony Sgro, the Chief Executive Officer of EdVenture Partners urged the youth to use social media to help fight terrorism.
An elated Ms Zamiyat Abubakar, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency, expressed joyed that their hard efforts had been rewarded.
SOURCE: MYJCR
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