CUC Matriculation

A matriculation ceremony has been held for the Master of Business Administration (MBA) students of the Graduate School of Business at the Central University College (CUC) in Accra.
Out of the 547 applications received, 257 were selected, from which 168 were males and 89 females.
One Hundred and thirty-six are offering Finance, 39, Marketing and 49 for Human Resource Management, while 33 are offering general Masters in Business Administration.
In his address at the ceremony, the Chancellor of the Central University College, Reverend Dr Mensah Otabil, urged the government and tertiary institutions to put in extra efforts to help improve on the current status of the country.
He observed that countries in Africa had been relegated to the background simply because of their status as developing nations, and that Africa could emerge as one of the developed continents in the world if a lot of emphasis was placed on education and industrialisation.
Rev Otabil noted that the African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) countries were once the least developed in the world but currently they had been able to breakthrough that category, leaving Africa behind.
Rev Otabil said the MBA students were being trained to push Ghana and Africa forward from the least developed countries, and advised the matriculants not to study for the sake of material gains or increase in wages only, since all that was insignificant.
The President of the CUC, Prof. V. P. Y. Gadzekpo, said the CUC had introduced a fourth school, the School of Applied Sciences which would start operating in October this year.
Prof Gadzekpo said he believed that products of the four- year Physician assistantship programme would be of tremendous help to the health sector in Ghana.
“A Physician Assistant provides a broad range of health care services that were traditionally performed only by a medical doctor. He or she exercised a considerable autonomy in diagnosing and treating illnesses, developed and carried out treatment plans”, he stated, adding that it was one of the fastest growing professions in the world.
He said the Graduate School of Business currently took a double class for its programmes.