Accra Poly senior staff attend workshop
The Accra Polytechnic has organised a two-day orientation workshop for its senior staff at Dodowa in the Dangme West District.
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Organised on the theme: “Promoting Academic Ethics and Professionalism among teaching staff in a university,” and attended by 150 participants and two resource persons, the workshop was geared towards equipping participants with adequate skills to ensure the smooth running of the institution, when it starts operating as a technical university.
Background
The government, early this year, upgraded six polytechnics into technical universities which would start operating in September this year.
The institutions are, the Accra, Kumasi, Koforidua, Takoradi, Ho and Sunyani polytechnics.
Proactive
In his address, the Rector of Accra Polytechnic, Prof. Sylvester Achio, underscored the need for the institution to be proactive, indicating that they had engaged facilitators with the needed experience to impart their knowledge to the participants to learn from them.
“This is a new system we are about to start, others have experienced it for many years that is why we have to invite facilitators for an insight.
“All of us, including staff and students, need to be oriented to have a sound mindset, knowledge and shared skills from the facilitators, so that we will not be naive come September,” he explained.
The facilitators were a former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Prof. Stephen Adei, and the Chief Executive of Seamless Management Solutions Limited, Mr Patrick Fiagbe.
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Both of them held discussions with participants on the theme and on other topics to enhance efficiency.