Some of the graduands
The Vice-Chancellor of the Takoradi Technical University (TTU), Rev. Prof Frank Eshun, has lauded the Akufo-Addo-led government for undertaking massive infrastructural projects in the university to ensure effective teaching and learning.
He mentioned some of the projects as the construction of a four-storey lecture theatre at Faculty of Business Studies Campus at BU, near Takoradi; the extension of the Administration Block and a four-storey classroom complex behind the Plumbing block of the university; the conversion of the Annan Block into an office complex to enhance teaching and learning as well as administrative work.
He said there was also the construction of a five-storey, Oduro block, which was 95% complete, consisting of 40 classrooms and 100 offices which would provide additional lecture halls and office spaces for the students and staff, as well as the completion of two mechanized boreholes as part of measures to control the perennial water crisis on campus.
The Vice-Chancellor said during the fifth congregation ceremony of the university for the 2019/2020 academic year that the university successfully turned out 3,155 graduates.
He said 13 of them were awarded Master of Technology degree; 524 Bachelor of Technology degrees; 2,106 were also awarded Higher National Diploma, while 311 were awarded Non-tertiary Diploma.
He added that the university’s health centre, which was currently under renovation, would be equipped to improve its capacity to offer service to all students and the surrounding communities.
“The university has also entered into two, Public Private Partnership projects on Build, Own, Operate and Transfer bases with ConstructPro Innovations (CPI) Company to put up a hostel to accommodate 3,500 students.
“TTU has again signed a GH¢3.5 million agreement with the Petroleum Commission to train Ghanaian youth in the upstream oil and gas sector to boost local content in the oil and gas and its allied industries.”
He said the accelerated oil and gas capacity training programme (AOGC) formed part of the government’s strategic agenda to localize most of the expatriate roles for Ghanaians to play critical roles in the production and management of oil and gas resources in the country.
Dr. Mrs. Henrietta Abane, chairperson of the university’s council, bemoaned the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academic work.
However, she noted that there were conscious and active involvement of management, faculty and staff to ensure that all the protocols were adhered to when students went to complete their academic year and sat for their examinations.