UEW launches corporate strategic plan
The University of Education, Winneba (UEW) has launched a five-year corporate strategic plan to help the university achieve its goal of producing professional teachers to enhance the development of the nation’s human resource, as well as for the sub-region.
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The plan, starting from 2014-2018, would provide the basis that would propel the university to achieve its core mandate of attaining academic excellence, service to community, good governance, gender equity, teamwork and positive work attitude, and environmental responsibility.
Strategic themes
The main strategic themes under the plan the third in the series, include excellent academic standards in teaching, learning and research, proactive and responsive administrative system, enhanced access and equity, national, regional and international partnerships for development and enhanced quality assurance.
Launching the plan, the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), Professor Mahama Duweijua, said it was important for the university to turn the plan into reality with hard work.
He said turning a plan into a success story required hard work and teamwork, adding that turning the words into action was a journey, which would not be achieved through proclamations.
Solving problems
Prof. Duweijua noted that: “Many organisations operate under structures that are designed to solve problems that no longer exist and that is dangerous for any organisation because that is the easiest way to render your organisation irrelevant and undeserving of public support.”
He commended the university for considering issues affecting marginalised and underprivileged persons, as well as persons with disability, as part of the plan, and expressed optimism that the plan would help the university to address its challenges and accomplish its mission of an internationally reputable institution for teacher education and research.
Prof. Duweijua called for an effective monitoring and evaluation team to ensure that the goals of the plan were achieved, stressing that academic excellence should remain the plan’s hallmark.
The Vice Chancellor
The Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Akwasi Asabere Ameyaw, said the two earlier plans had been successful and had been “the primary management tool that had brought the university this far in its efforts to make the university a world-class institution.”
He said the university would continue to strive to produce professional teachers as part of its special mandate and also strive to produce scholars to change the fortunes of the nation, focusing on national and global challenges.
A member of the university’s Governing Council, Dr Ruby Avortri, who chaired the function, said it was only through teamwork that the objectives of the plan would be achieved.
