Data Link Institute holds 7th congregation
The Data Link Institute (DLI) last Thursday held its seventh congregation during which degrees and certificates were conferred on 320 graduates who had successfully completed their programmes of study.
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The institute, established in 2006, is affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
They graduated in various courses in Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration, with 80 majoring in Human Resource Management, 59 in Accounting; 33 in Banking and Finance; 37 in Marketing. Twenty others completed courses in Bsc Computer Science, 38 in Information and Communications Technology, while 11 received certificates from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.
Awards
Mr Rudolf Akumatey Tetteh emerged the Overall Best, as well as the best Human Resource Management and Best Male Student. Other award winners were: Miss Priscilla Essien, (Best Female Student), Miss Phyllis Essi Sefakor Kwaku, (Best Student in Banking and Finance) and Miss Ruth Adusu, Best Student, Marketing.
The rest were Arnold Gadugah, (Best Student, Accounting), Abdul Razak Tetteh, ( Best Student, Computer Science and Information Systems,) Emmanuel Tetteh Ayenu, (Best Student, Information and Communications Technology), Miss Gloria Adams, (Best International Student) and Isaac Nana Eshun, (Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport)
In his address, the Founder and Chancellor of DLI, Mr Ernest Ansah, noted that private universities had brought vitality and increased access to tertiary education in Ghana but regrettably, all private universities were currently facing a drought in enrolment.
Challenges
“This is mainly because our public mentoring universities are in direct competition with their mentored private universities on the “Enrolment Market”. This situation is worsened by high service charges from public universities paid by private universities for mentorship.
According to the chancellor, the problem was further aggravated by the high charges paid to the regulatory bodies, stressing that “this calls for action to reduce the burden in order to give private universities some breathing space to play their expected role in tertiary education delivery in Ghana.”
Mr Ansah also advocated the decentralisation of the regulatory functions of the National Accreditation Board (NAB) to the regions to enhance their oversight functions in view of logistics and human resource challenges.
“It will also seek to enhance the capacity of NAB to perform their essential functions with maximum efficiency when backed by adequate government funding,” he added.
Mr Ansah said soon, the suspended multi-purpose project at Tema Community One and Community Six would materialise and upon completion,it would provide adequate space to satisfy the infrastructure needs of the institute. That, he explained, would serve as a prelude to the development of the permanent campus site at Doryumu along the Tema-Akosombo road.
National Devt
The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Sun Baohong, who was the guest speaker, said Ghana, apart from the rich natural resources, abundant talent reserves, peace and relative stability also required patriotism, hard work, pragmatic and innovative thinking to drive national development.
She expressed the hope that the students would grow to exhibit high quality talents that would meet the needs of Ghana’s development with a strong sense of mission, loft, ideal and indomitable spirit to promote the process of Ghana’s industrialisation and economic transformation.