Cape Coast, March 01, GNA – Dr Kwaku Gyasi Badu, former Director of Human Resource Management at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), has called on the management of colleges of education to be guided by good administrative governance to enhance academic excellence.
He said good administrative practices required the leader to take up responsibilities, ensure best practices to get the full benefits, optimise resources, management risks and institutional compliance and add value to stakeholders.
Dr Badu said this at the opening of a two-day workshop, organised by the Institute of Education, for principals and selected administrative staff of the 16 colleges of education.
The participants were taken through Appointment and Promotions, Record Keeping, Committee Systems in the Colleges, Managing Students in Tertiary Education Institutions and Quality Assurance.
Dr Badu advised the principals to regularly engage universities management, unions and students to avoid the consequences of communication gaps.
On Appointment and Promotions, he charged them to be diligent to ensure that it was always subject to vacancy and financial clearance before initiating the process.
They should also keep proper records of junior and senior staff, official documents and reports to help current and future decisions.
“Records help school administrators to make decisions. Records provide raw data that enable coherent, balanced and objective decisions on issues such as promotion, students and staff discipline, and teaching and learning performances,” he stated.
“Such administrative excellence has enabled the UCC to achieve enviable feat and has set the tone for every strategic decision or choice, which every faculty, school, department, functional division and affiliate colleges must aspire to.”
That reinforced the UCC’S mission of building a realistic, credible, and attractive future for itself, a target that inspired all stakeholders to maximise efforts in bridging the gap between their current reality and their desired future.
Professor Christine Adu-Yeboah, the Director, Institute of Education, UCC, noted that the workshop was aimed at empowering the colleges to take internal decisions to improve academic work.
She said the University was committed to strengthening the structures of the colleges to meet the standards of tertiary institutions, globally.
“We will work together to make this collaboration work so that we can all share best practices to meet global standards.”
The relationship between UCC and its affiliate colleges had assumed another dimension so there was the need to work hard to promote academic excellence, Prof Adu-Yeboah said.
“The colleges should be able to strengthen their own quality assurance systems to meet the standards of the National Accreditation Board and the National Council for Tertiary Education,” she said.
GNA