THE Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) has embarked on infrastructural development projects to promote academic learning and research among students and lecturers.
The move followed several infrastructural interventions by the institution, including the completion of all outstanding classroom renovations with well-equipped laboratories to facilitate enhanced teaching, learning, and research.
Additionally, land has been allocated to the Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) for the construction of a 200-bed hostel to address the challenge of students’ residential facilities.
The Vice Chancellor of CCTU, Professor Kwaku Adutwum Ayim Boakye, said this during the 32nd matriculation ceremony. A total of 4,111 students were admitted out of 4,339 applicants to pursue various degree and diploma programmes at the institution.
Among the students are 30 Master of Technology, 2,692 Bachelor of Technology, 298 Higher National Diploma, and 1,091 Diploma students. The number represents a 120 per cent increase over the 2024/2025 admissions.
Prof. Boakye further explained that work on converting the Commercial Block into a student hostel to ease pressure on students’ residential facilities had commenced, stating, “We have completed discussions with banks and secured a co-investor/builder for a 1000-bed hostel project.”
Additionally, he indicated that the University had signed an agreement with a private developer to build a hostel, explaining that work on the project would commence soon. Another agreement, he said, had been signed with a private developer for the construction of a second hostel, which would also commence soon.
He further said, “Management had started discussions with banks to acquire funds to support the construction of the CCTU 40th Anniversary Legacy Hostel Project.”
The University, Prof. Boakye said, had introduced new competitive programmes such as Graphic Design and Multimedia Studies, Cloud Computing, and Library Studies programmes, stating, “We are also re-examining our curriculum to let it reflect current trends.”
The University, the Vice Chancellor explained, had begun tracer studies on graduates from the institution to ascertain their impacts on various employment fields, which would also shape the curricula being run.
Prof. Ayim Boakye explained that the University’s internship model had been redesigned and piloted for greater engagement and skill-building outcomes. The Academic Board, he stated, had approved a mainstream university-wide course, CCTU Honours Programme (including AI), that would directly infuse professionalism and 21st-century skills into all students.
Management, he said, had recruited more lecturers to help with the teaching load and further stated that, “We are also re-examining our curriculum to let it reflect current trends.”
Prof. Boakye announced that CCTU had commenced a soft skills programme designed to build confidence and empower students to adequately position themselves for the world of work, either as job creators or employees.
Additionally, he said, management would fully operationalise new student learning software and also establish a disability desk as directed by the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and merge it with the Gender Desk.
He added that the institution had redesigned and piloted a new internship model to make it more engaging and skill-learning outcomes-oriented.
FROM DAVID O. YARBOI TETTEH, CAPE COAST
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