The Academic
Board of the University for Development Studies, UDS, has reduced the intake of
students admitted for the 2016/17 academic year to pursue Bachelor of Medicine
and Bachelor of Surgery.
The reduction is necessitated by a change in duration
of the said programmes from seven to six years.
As a result, the yearly intake of students into the Bachelor of Medicine
and Surgery Programme which consistently hovered around hundred students has
seen a significant decline.
Explaining the rationale for the sudden change, the
Vice Chancellor for the UDS, Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye said the decision
taken by the school’s governing body is to enable the School of Medicine and
Health Sciences run a conventional medical programme as pertained in other
medical schools in Ghana and other developed countries.
Prof Ayum-Teye was
addressing matriculants at the 24th matriculation ceremony of the
UDS Navrongo campus.
Background
In line with the
requirements set out by the National Accreditation Board, a total of six
thousand, 897 applicants gained admission to pursue various graduate and
undergraduate degree and diploma programmes for this year.
This is out of ten thousand, 447
applications received when the university advertised for qualified applications
to apply for admission in the first week of January, 2016.
The Navrongo campus
of the school was able to honour admission to only 344 students to undertake
degree programmes at the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Faculty of
Mathematical Sciences.
Administering the oath to formally usher in freshmen and
women, the Vice Chancellor of the UDS, Prof. Gabriel Ayum Teye congratulated
the matriculants for sailing through the admission process considering the cumbersome
nature of the online registration introduced this year.
He urged the fresher’s
to concentrate on their studies and set their priorities right because there is
no better time to plan their future than now.
Prof. Ayum Teye further advised
the students not to associate themselves with occultism and unregistered
student groups apart from legitimate students’ clubs and associations duly recognized by the office of the Dean of Students Affairs.
Touching on the
prospects of the school, Prof Ayum Teye said in a bid to roll out and expand
the programme menu of the university, the school of Engineering established at
the Nyankpala campus last year has ensured the admission of the first batch of
students for the 2016/17 academic year to pursue degree programmes in Mechanical
Engineering and Agricultural Engineering.
Moreover, the Faculty of Renewable
Natural Resource has been rebranded and renamed Faculty of Natural Resources
and Environment.
He said the faculty will now have six academic departments to
run various degree programmes when its proposal given by the Executive
Committee of the Academic Board is accorded the necessary accreditation.
Prof
Ayum Teye also announced plans by university to provide clinics on all campuses
with the exception of the Tamale Campus, where management is tirelessly working
to put up one.
Additionally, the construction of the Ghana Universities Super-annuation
Scheme hostel on the Tamale campus is almost complete and students have already
been allocated rooms.
The edifice which is expected to accommodate over 690
students upon completion, comes with an ultra-modern facilities such as
pharmacy, shopping mall and laundry among others.
The effort, he said, forms
part of the modest gains geared towards improving the welfare of students on
the campuses of the UDS.
The 24th matriculation ceremony was
attended by deans and directors of the UDS among other key dignitaries.
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