UDS Bans Request For Change Of Name After Students Are Admitted
Prof Millar gave the warning at the 20th matriculation ceremony of the Wa campus of the UDS in Wa in the Upper West region at the weekend.
He said in cases where names of students have been wrongly presented by the academic office of the university or at the faculties and departments, appropriate corrections would be made.
He reminded students that the university would scrutinise all results slips and certificates provided, during admissions and said those who would be found to have gained admission through fraudulent means would be dismissed and dealt with according to law.
Touching on the admission for the academic year, Prof Millar said as many as 12, 056 applications were received for undergraduate programmes but the university could only admit 6, 209 students out of which 3, 690 accepted the offer.
He said 2, 516 which represented 68.1 percent are males while the remaining 1, 174 which also represented 31.9 percent are females pointing out that the 31. 9 percent of female students admitted is an improvement over the 29 percent admitted last year.
On some of the programmes introduced by the university, the Pro Vice Chancellor said the UDS continued to mount very relevant and demand driven academic programmes with its strong commitment to rural and community development and national development.
He noted that eight new programmes comprising Bachelor of Commerce, BSc. Accounting, Bsc. Land Management, BSc. Nurse Anaesthesia and BSc. Information Technology have been introduced while a new faculty known as the faculty of agribusiness and communication science has been established at the Nyankpala campus.
Prof Millar further advised students to take the Third Trimester Field Practical Programme (TTFPP) of the UDS which involved sending students to rural communities in the whole of the third trimester to live and learn from the communities very serious since that programme was what made the UDS unique from other universities.
The Dean in charge of the Wa campus of the UDS, Prof Francis Bacho, advised students to be disciplined at all times while persevering to pursue the agenda for which they were admitted into the university.
He said gaining admission into a university comes with lots of freedom but that freedom must be exercised with much circumspection.
He also acknowledged the challenges confronting the UDS, particularly the Wa campus, and urged the freshers to make the best use of the limited available facilities on campus.
Story: Chris Nunoo, Wa
