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| Prof. Haruna Yakubu |
The
University for Development Studies (UDS) would from the next academic year (2014/2015)
establish an Institute for the Study of Ethics through which issues of moral
and social responsiveness would be addressed.
Vice Chancellor of UDS Professor Haruna Yakubu,
who announced this at the 15th Congregation of the University in
Tamale, said the institute would among other things “introduce a mandatory
course in ethics and social responsibility to be taken by all first year
students of the University”.
The institute, he noted, would in
collaboration with the UDS Graduate School develop postgraduate diploma and
certificate programmes in ethics and social Responsibility. “The course is
intended for members of the general public…..the purpose of these programmes is
to help inculcate, in our own small way, ethical and socially responsible
behaviour among Ghanaians”, Prof. Yakubu stressed.
The establishment of the Institute for The Study of Ethics would
add up to other already existing schools and centres such as the UDS School of Business
and Law; UDS School of Medicine and Health Sciences; UDS Graduate School; and
the Institute for Continuing Education and Interdisciplinary Research (ICEIR).
This year, a total of 6,527 graduates from all
four campuses of the UDS –Wa, Navrongo, Nyankpala and Tamale– graduated. 2,631
graduates were awarded postgraduate and undergraduate degrees as well as
diploma certificates. However, about 3,896 graduates of the total 6,527
graduates came from the Wa Campus alone.
Prof. Yakubu also revealed that the UDS in
collaboration with the Galilee International Management Institute, Israel, had launched
an International Medical Training Programme to cater for the teeming number of
applicants for the University’s medical training programme, from both within
and outside Ghana.
The programme, he said, aimed at training
the much needed doctors and other medical personnel for Ghana, Africa and the international
community.
Prof. Yakubu, however, gave the assurance
that the programme was not meant to take over the regular training of medical
doctors by the UDS School of Medicine and Health Sciences, but rather meant to
be a useful complement, with an international dimension and patronage.
Speaking on behalf of the Minister of
Education, a Deputy Minister of Education in-charge of Tertiary Education,
Samuel Okudzato Ablakwa commended the University Authorities for the quality
human resources they churn out to help boost the workforce of the country.
He also indicated that, adequate resources
have been made available to ensure that all sectors of the education are well
catered for as soon as the government introduces the free but progressive senior
high school in 2015/2016.
Established in May
1992 by the Government of Ghana, the UDS exist to blend the academic world with
that of the community in order to provide constructive interaction between the
two for the total development of Northern Ghana, in particular, and the country
as a whole.
It began academic
work in September 1993 with the admission of thirty-nine (39) students into the
Faculty of Agriculture, (FOA), Nyankpala campus. The Faculty of Integrated
Development Studies, (FIDS), Faculty of Planning and Land Management (FPLM) and
Faculty of Education (FOE), Wa, School of Business, Wa, School of Medicine and
Health Sciences (SMHS), Tamale, Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources (FRNR),
Nyankpala, Faculty of Applied Sciences (FAS), Faculty of Mathematical Sciences
(FMS), Navrongo and the Graduate School now in Tamale were phased in from 1994
to date.
UDS is unique compared to other
public universities considering its location and multi campuses which are
spread out in rural Northern Ghana where the incidence and depth of poverty is
high. The UDS has four (4) campuses, seven (7) Faculties, a Business School,
one Medical School, one Graduate School and three (3) centres. Several programs
are run at these places.
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