The administration of the College of Training, Winneba (UEW) has launched an academic initiative to construct the wanted human sources to rework the lives of residents of it’s host and encompassing communities.
Dubbed: ‘the Vice-Chancellor’s Neighborhood Initiative Programme (VCCIP),’ the mission seeks to create an avenue to enhance the usual of training, present monetary help for needy college students and expertise growth.
Hinged on three thrust space, the initiative has neighbourhood educational initiative programme, financial help for needy college students, particularly in STEM programmes and group apprenticeship initiative programme.
It shaped a part of the commitment of administration of the University in reaffirming their position as a socially accountable establishment— one which recognises the challenges dealing with the youth, households, and communities of Effutu, Ajumako, and past and takes decisive motion to deal with them.
Specializing in areas comparable to education, well being, financial empowerment, and social welfare, the mission seeks to create alternatives, uplift lives, and pave the best way for maintainin a position growth.
The Vice Chancellor of UEW, Prof. Stephen Jobson Mitchual, in his handle, defined that the initiative was rooted within the perception that training ought to be, saying, “inclusive, equitable, and life-changing. It’s pushed by our imaginative and prescient to encertain that no little one is left behind, no potential is wasted, and no dream is out of attain.”
“We’re implementing these strategic measures to make sure that younger people, mother and father, and households in our host communities are supplied with the required training, expertise, and alternatives to realize success and achievement,” he added.
The VCCIP, Prof. Mitchual defined, was designed to deal with challenges in low instructional efficiency and restricted entry to educational help for college students making ready for BECE and WASSCE; monetary boundaries stopping needy college students from pursuing greater training, notably in Science, Know-how, Engineering, and Arithmetic (STEM) fields.
Furthermore, the mission, he defined, was not only a native intervention, however a part of an even bigger world motion that aligns with key United Nations Sustainable Development Targets (SDGs), notably.
Underneath the initiative, he indicated that beneficiaries can be “nurtured, guided and adequately ready” for his or her respective examinations. The long-term aim is to make sure that beneficiaries of the initiative are well-positioned for enrolment into the College of Training, Winneba (UEW) to pursue tertiary training.
The help, he indicated, would cowl tuition, accommodation, and the availability of laptops to make sure that these college students have the instruments they should excel and succeed.
The Vice President of the Winneba Growth Affiliation, Nana Ofori Owusu, underscored the necessity for all to work collectively to empower the following era of leaders, saying, “Allow us to put money into our youth knowledgeable by analysis and in doing so, put money into the way forward for Ghana”.
Nana Ofori Owusu, who can be the Chairman of the Progressive Peoples Celebration (PPP), referred to as for collaboration between the university and host communities in the direction of the constructing of the wanted human useful resource base for growth and transformation.
He pressured that the initiative ought to be instituted within the governance construction of the college and to not be seen because the protect of the present Vice Chancellor.
As a part of the launch, the University introduced scholarship within the type of monetary help to needy college students, particularly within the STEM programmes.
FROM DAVID O. YARBOI-TETTEH, WINNEBA
