Cape Coast, March 2, GNA – Colleges of Education that are affiliated to the University of Cape Coast (UCC) have been urged to collectively embrace the needed changes to produce quality students for the job market.
Professor Christine Adu-Yeboah, the Director of the Institute of Education, UCC, who made the call, said the University through the Institute of Education, was mentoring 16 colleges, comprising 14 public and two private ones, to adapt to university standards of teaching and learning.
The Director made this known at the opening of a three-day assessment and management workshop for the Colleges of Education at UCC.
The workshop is designed to equip senior management and staff of the Colleges with the requisite knowledge and information to improve educational standards in the Country.
She said the training was to assist the Colleges to understand and appreciate how they could deliver good and quality instructions and assessments to be able to catch up with the universities in the Country because the Colleges have now moved from diploma programmes to degree courses.
Prof Adu-Yeboah underscored the need to provide them with the answers to challenges and problems they were encountering while adapting to the new system.
The Colleges, she stated, needed to manage matters such as appointments and promotions, record keeping, the committee system, quality assurance issues and students’ management in Tertiary Education Institutions, among others.
Dr Kwaku Gyasi Badu, the Former Human Resource Director at the UCC, urged the management of the Colleges to ensure they recruited committed, serious and dedicated staff and often engage them to know how important they were in the running of their institutions.
He named the union, community consultative and students’ consultative committees as the major influential committees that needed constant engagements to get them informed about decisions of the College to avoid conflicts and misunderstanding.
Prof Badu called on the participants to be bold and consistent in executing their duties and not hesitate to report lazy lecturers to heads of departments for the necessary actions to be taken.
On records keeping, he noted that relevant departments and directorates should always keep accurate and vital information of staff, activities and programmes of the College for future references.
He added that the records should be kept well to avoid causing financial loss to the College, which could tarnish their image and reputation.
The Director urged the Colleges to train suitable staff with the requisite resources to manage staff and students on a regular and sustainable basis.
“Keeping records will help you as an institution to retrieve relevant information when the need arises,” he advised.
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