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Professor Fred Newton Binka (Inset) administering the matriculation oath

University of Health & Allied Sciences increases admissions

Applications for admission to the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ho have almost doubled from 2511 in the 2014/2015 academic year, to 4,124 this academic year.

Admissions have also increased from 485 in the 2014/2015 academic year to 829 this academic year. 

Addressing the fourth batch of students admitted to pursue various programmes at the permanent site last Saturday, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Fred Newton Binka, announced that the university had within the last three years, established five out of eight schools and three institutes earmarked for its operations.

They are: the Schools of Basic and Biomedical Sciences, Allied Health Sciences, Nursing and Midwifery, Public Health and Medicine, which in all run 15 health-related programmes.

Vocational training

Professor Binka said realising the importance of community service to vocational training, the university, in collaboration with the district assemblies, initiated a programme last year to deploy more than 1,000 students at the end of every semester to work in parts of the Volta Region, adding that 1,800 students were expected to be deployed under the next phase of the community service programme.

He announced that the university was expected to hold its first congregation by the end of the year to award degrees to the first batch of 46 students from the School of Nursing and Midwifery and School of Public Health.

Advice to students

Prof. Binka reminded the students that a university was an institution of higher learning, and advised them to be guided by tolerance, patience and understanding and to make studies their preoccupation in order to acquire a respectable degree from the university.

“You are mature enough to know what to do at any point in time; therefore your future is in your hands,” he said.

He added that the university had put in place physical, spiritual and psychological measures to ensure their holistic growth and urged them to take advantage of those opportunities.

In an address, the Chairman of the Governing Council of the university, Professor Kofi Anyidoho, said he was excited about the rapid development of the university and expressed the hope that it would chart the path of accomplished universities to produce world-class graduates.

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