The University for Development Studies (UDS) has recently, established a new Directorate for advancement, linkages and International programmes.Part of the mandate of this office will be to foster and promote the image of UDS internationally, as well as to encourage possible links with foreign institutions across the world.
Staff across different Faculties and Schools, are also expected to identify programmes and projects which could be promoted and given international image.
Through the establishment and promotion of these linkages, both staff and students of UDS will have more opportunities for foreign exchange visits and sponsorship of their work.
According to a statement posted on the University’s website, it also expect that many foreign scholars and other partners interested in working and collaborating in the development of Northern Ghana would find it convenient to contact the University through its one-stop contact point.
The statement said an obvious choice for promotion is the Third Trimester Field Practical Training (TTFPT), a flagship programme of the University, which has attracted much attention from different institutions since its inception.
Other opportunities for international collaboration lie within the development of postgraduate programmes which can be implemented with collaboration with other local or foreign universities, and many others.
Established in May 1992 by PNDC Law 279: It began academic work in September 1993 with the admission of thirty-nine (39) students into the Faculty of Agriculture, (FOA), Nyankpala.
The Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, (FIDS), Faculty of Planning and Land Management (FPLM) and Faculty of Education, Law and Business Studies (FELBS), Wa, School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), Tamale, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources (FRNR), Nyankpala, Faculty of Applied Sciences (FAS), Faculty of Computational and Developmental Mathematics (FCDM), Navrongo and the Graduate School now in Tamale were phased in from 1994 to date.
The mission of the University is to run programmes that will effectively and efficiently combine academic work with community-participation and extension.
The University’s principal objective is to address and find solutions to the environmental problems and socio-economic deprivations that have characterized northern Ghana in particular and are also found in some rural areas throughout the rest of the country.
Accordingly, UDS consciously and systematically run programmes that are targeted to prepare the individuals to establish their own careers in specialized areas. Further it equips these practitioners with requisite knowledge to enable them to live and function in any deprived community in the country.
The university presently runs six faculties, one school and two centres of excellence. Further there are Masters Programmes in the social sciences, and sciences leading to the award of doctorate degrees.
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