University education must equip you with skills - Prof. Asabere-Ameyaw

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, Prof. Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw, has told fresh students at the Kumasi and Mampong campuses that university education is not a sure way of employment but rather to equip them with the needed skills to find solutions to problems.

“As a university, our aim is not only to help you acquire certificates and degrees for good jobs or enhanced positions at your workplaces,” he told the matriculants.

He said the institution was to help the students, which included 208 for postgraduate studies at the Kumasi campus, to be independent, be able to adopt positive attitude to life, be conscious of the value of the time, and be sincere to themselves and society.

The number was made up of 1,573 at the Kumasi campus and 827 at the Mampong School of Agriculture.

Prof. Asabere-Ameyaw urged the newly matriculated students to consider the university as a transformational and functional institution to become useful to themselves and the Ghanaian society as a whole.

As part of the university’s policy of a paperless institution, the vice chancellor challenged the newly matriculated students to be abreast of the Internet and the use of computer, since all communications and assignments would be channelled through that medium.

He said the two campuses had been fully connected to the Internet via satellites to give a wide range of Internet resources for teaching, learning and research.

Prof. Asabere-Ameyaw said the students must catch up quickly by visiting academic sites on the Internet regularly to update their knowledge in their respective fields of study.
The Kumasi and Mampong matriculation ceremony was the third after a similar exercise at the parent campus at Winneba.