Zuarungu (U/E), Feb. 27, GNA – The Zuarungu Nursing and Midwifery Training College in the Bolgatanga East District of the Upper East Region has awarded two tutors for their dedication to duty in 2021.
Mr Ebenezer Baba Asore, the Clinical Coordinator of the College, was adjudged the Overall Best Tutor, while Madam Ramatu Akunvane, a former Programmes Head of the Post Nurse Assistant Clinical and Nurse Assistant Preventive Midwifery (PNNM) came second.
Management, staff and the students gave the tutors the recognition for their effective service delivery during the College’s matriculation ceremony at the weekend.
Mr Asore took home a laptop computer and a certificate of appreciation while Madam Akunvane received a certificate and an undisclosed gift.
Both tutors expressed gratitude to the Management, staff and students for the recognition and said it would urge them on to work even harder.
Nine students, who pursued various programmes of study at the College, were also recognized and awarded for their excellent academic performances.
Mr Charles Santomah was the Best Student for the Diploma programme, Ms Emmanuella Salamatu Apota took the second position, and Mr Emmanuel Awini came third.
Ms Vera Anet Kwasi, Ms Priscilla Kanbigs and Ms Jessica Zanleribil all students of the Nurse Assistant Clinical (NAC) programme came first, second and third respectively.
From the PNNM programme, Ms Lucadia Amadu, Ms Lydia Ayolipoka Azangbeo and Mr Oscar Clement took the first, second and third positions, respectively.
The Principal of the College, Mr Michael Yidana Mantamia, said the College’s 15 years of academic excellence was anchored on competency-based curricular and effective delivery by its highly skilled professional tutors.
“We aim at students constructing their own knowledge using a variety of teaching methodology. This has led us to achieve 100 per cent pass rate in the past three years of the Diploma Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) exams,” he said.
The Principal said even though their performance was 92 per cent in the KNUST examination in 2021, the College was still within the upper quartile of statistical performance.
Mr Mantamia indicated that with the professional Nurses and Midwifery Council’s examination, the NAC performance in the last three years had been 82.3 and 96.9 per cent in 2018 and 2019, respectively, and said in the last released results in 2020, the College chalked 100 per cent pass.
He appreciated the hard work of staff of the College, saying: “All these achievements were due to the dedication and hard work of the tutors of the College, in particular, and the non-teaching staff.”
Mr David Akolgo Amoah, the Bolgatanga East District Chief Executive, congratulated the awardees for the hard work to uplift the image of the College in the Region and the country as a whole.
He observed that the decision to award the two tutors was generally accepted by the entire College community per the applause and standing ovation they received.
Mr Amoah expressed concern about the indecent dressing among students and urged them to dress appropriately.
GNA