By Emelia B. Addae
Somanya (E/R), March 7, GNA – The University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD), has matriculated 455 students into the 2024/2025 academic year.
The matriculants comprised of 229 males and 226 females and this year marks the fifth matriculation ceremony of the University since its establishment in 2020.
Professor Eric Nyarko-Sampson, Vice-Chancellor of UESD, said the University started with 78 students in 2020/2021 academic year, and now has a considerable rise in admission.
He commended the staff of the University for their contribution to this far and urged them to do more to keep up the rise in population for the subsequent years.
He called on the government to help complete the phase two project of the University in terms of adequate teaching and learning spaces, working tools, and completion of the administration building.
He also appealed to organisations, and well-meaning individuals to support the University with resources to deliver its mandate to be a centre of excellence in knowledge gathering and dissemination in environment for public good.
Professor Nyarko-Sampson encouraged the students to take advantage of the available facilities to develop themselves as they gear towards their academic achievement and reminded them to comply with the University’s core values, Honesty, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Enterprise (HOPE).
” Be determined not to graduate from the UESD after four years only to become unemployed. You must dare to think about a business idea today, even when you think you have no knowledge to become an entrepreneur,” he stressed.
Ms Christabel Owusua Boahen, a matriculant said she was imbued with a sense of enthusiasm and gratitude for the opportunity to be a part of UESD and assured that they (students) will put the academic resources into a judicious use, harness the power of artificial intelligence ethically and responsibly in their academic pursuit.
The University of Environment and Sustainable Development has the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences (SNES), and the School of Sustainable Development (SSD).
It offers courses such as Bachelor of Science (BSc.) in Energy and Resource Economics, BSc. in Water Resource Development, BSc. in Sustainable Construction Management Technology, and BSc. Geography and Earth Sciences.
Others are BSc. in Environment and Public Health, BSc. in Chemistry and Biological Sciences, BSc. in Physics and Biological Sciences, BSc. in Nature Conservation and Management, as well as Sandwich programmes.
GNA