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UG College of Education launches strategic plan
Prof. Cephas Narh Omenyo

UG College of Education launches strategic plan

The University of Ghana College of Education, has launched a five-year strategic plan to guide the college in putting structures in place to enable it expand and develop.

The plan seeks to make the college achieve diversity and operate as a world class ICT-driven college, achieve gender equity and foster an environment of respect, inclusiveness and support.

The document is divided into 10 priority areas, 57 objectives, more than 200 practical actions and 87 key performance indicators concentrated on areas such as learning and teaching, research, financial planning and process management.

Strategic priorities 

At a ceremony to launch the document in Accra today (Tuesday), the Provost of the College of Education, Prof. Cephas Omenyo said the document was in line with the university’s strategic plan ( from 2014-2024), which focused on becoming a world class research intensive university by 2024.

 He said the strategic priorities were also directly related to the core mandate and objectives of the college, and the key performance indicators and actions had been simplified to make them workable and achievable.

The College of Education, made up of the school of Continuing and Distance Education, the School of Information and Communication Studies and the School of Education and Leadership, formed part of the programme of restructuring the University of Ghana into colleges.

The College, which was approved in 2014, seeks to improve upon the training and quality of teachers at all levels, as well as influence the way teaching is done in the country.

Making reforms

According to Prof. Omenyo, the strategic plan was, therefore, to give clear guidelines to direct the college to meet its objectives. He said “the strategic plan captures realistic, measurable and strategic goals and objectives of the college.”

He added that the plan was also to ensure that the college made judicious use of its limited resources by focusing on priorities.

In his address, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Ernest Aryeetey, said the university was changing and management was “anxious to reform our structures to bring in new things”. 

Considering the era of technological advancement, he said, it was expected of the College of Education to introduce as much as possible, new technologies that would influence other disciplines in the university.

While lauding the college for the efforts to keep tracks of its activities, the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the College, Mr Felix Nyarko-Pong, pledged the board’s commitment to supporting the college to achieve its goals.

He, therefore, urged management of the University of Ghana to release all the resources required to give practical meaning to the college and the university’s systems. 

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