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20-10-08

THE Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC) has initiated moves to set up a Centre for Education and Technology that will provide Information and Technology (IT) related services for tertiary institutions in and outside the country.
To facilitate that vision, the GTUC has created the office of Information Technology Services which will help speed up the process.
The President of the university, Dr Osei K. Darkwa, announced this at the third matriculation of the GTUC in Accra on Friday.
In all, 511 freshers, made up 43 females and 434 males, were admitted to the college. The fresh students comprised 53 students from 16 other African countries. They will pursue certificate, diploma, degree and postgraduate programmes.
Dr Darkwa said the Centre for Education Technology in Africa (CETA) would link the GTUC with colleges and schools throughout West Africa, Africa and the world at large, adding that the office of Information Technology would manage the university’s central technology infrastructure and provide IT-support services for the university.
He said the GTUC was seeking accreditation from the National Accreditation Board (NAB) to offer new programmes in Computer Forensics and Information Technology Management, adding that a third faculty, the Faculty of Business Entrepreneurship, would start next year.
“To position the university to be more competitive with others in Ghana and other parts of the world, the university is moving in the direction of open and distance learning. We are in the process of creating the GTUC virtual campus and satellite campuses in selected cities in Ghana, in conjunction with the polytechnics,” he said.
Dr Darkwa said that would enable the university to offer online courses to students who might not be physically located in Accra, saying that by “creating the GTUC virtual campus the university can enrol more students throughout Ghana and West Africa”.
He said the students were fortunate to be entering the university at the time the authorities were putting up a new classroom complex, establishing new technological infrastructure that would link the GTUC to similar institutions in other parts of the world, as well as establishing the university as an autonomous entity from its parent company.
“We encourage you to involve yourself in one or more of the many student clubs, as well as community service. It is often in these enjoyable co-curricular activities that we have opportunities to explore and develop yet untapped aspects of your character and talents,” he told the students.
On behalf of his colleagues, Kwabena Appiah-Berko pledged to share in the vision and mission of the university and appealed for the expansion of hostel facilities.