Prof. Anthony Afful-Broni
Management of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has as part of its student centeredness policy and fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, involved student leaders from all levels into its COVID-19 taskforce.
The student leaders will serve as ambassadors with management to ensure strict compliance with the COVID-19 safety protocols as a way of keeping the community safe.This is also to enable the university take the input and concerns of students on the management of the COVID-19 pandemic on campus.
According to the management of UEW, the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic was a herculean task, which needed the involvement of all, for which reason students have been roped in to ensure they followed through the safety protocols to stop the spread.
Speaking at the launch, the Vice-Chancellor, Rev. Fr. Prof. Anthony Afful-Broni, stressed that the student leaders were being called upon to be part of the decision-making process, implementors and ambassadors of the COVID-19 safety protocols.
“As a public university, we are under strict obligation to follow through whatever directives or safety protocols that have been laid down to stop the spread of COVID-19 or risk losing our precious students and staff to the pandemic or even the closure of the university and consequent disruption of the academic calendar. This is a task that can’t be executed by management or staff alone,” he said.
Prof. Afful-Broni pointed out that communities were guided by leaders who took critical decision and actions with or on behalf of their followers towards achieving collective goals.
He warned that he would not hesitate to trigger the appropriate processes for sanctions to be meted out to those found at the wrong side of the regulations.
Prof. Francis Owusu Mensah, Director of the Institute of Distance and e-Learning (IDeL) of UEW, expressed delight at what he observed following a recent visit to the university’s learning centres in Winneba, Cape Coast, Sekondi Takoradi, Kasoa and Accra.
He said class representatives were supplied with sanitisers and thermometer guns in addition to existing structures to ensure that their colleagues followed the safety protocols in lecture halls.
The task force is made up of Deans, Directors, Heads of Departments and student leaders.
By Samuel Boadi