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| | Australian High Commissioner Calls on Vice-Chancellor |    | | |  The Australian High Commissioner, Mr. William Williams has called on the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. C. N. B. Tagoe to discuss possible areas of collaboration especially in agriculture, between the University and the Australian government. The visit, he added, would also afford him the opportunity to build linkages in the relationship between Australia and the University of Ghana.
Referring to an earlier Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the two parties, Mr. Williams wished to know the progress made so far by the university and what further support could be provided by the Embassy to the realization of the MOU. He mentioned Agricultural Science and Medical Bio-technology as well as Environmental Science as strong areas for research capacities.
In response, the Vice-Chancellor said that the study of Agriculture was considered not only vital to the University’s curriculum, but also a means of the University redirecting itself to meet national development needs. He mentioned the recent establishment of the University’s College of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences with its component School of Agriculture and Institute of Agriculture, whose three Agricultural Research Centres at Legon, Kade and Kpong were involved in animal husbandry, crops and tree crops such as rice, citrus, palm and rubber.
Prof Tagoe added that Agriculture was one area which allowed the University to participate in the Presidential Special Initiative, and also to work closely with the Ministry of Agriculture. He made special mention to the West African Centre for Crop Improvement, (WACCI) which was established with support of $5,800 from the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations to train PhD’s in the sub-region in plant breeding.
He mentioned that as part of its future plans, the University was seeking to establish a modern Greenhouse apart from the existing one in the University
Botanical Gardens, for the development of crop sciences. Prof. Tagoe touched on the future development of programmes related to petroleum in view of the recent oil find in the country, and added that the University was running a Masters’ programme in Petroleum Geology. The Vice-Chancellor further stated that the Faculty of Engineering Sciences of the University, whose current programmes include Food Process Engineering and Agricultural Engineering among others, was developing relationships with stakeholders such as the Ghana National Petroleum Company as well as other oil marketing companies.
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Both the Vice-Chancellor and the High Commissioner stressed the need to develop and strengthen the Alumni Association of Australian and Australian–trained lecturers in the University for mutual benefit and a more collaborative effort.
Later, Mr. Williams signed the Visitors’ Book after which the Vice-Chancellor presented him with some memorabilia. He used the opportunity to invite him to the University’s Special Congregation at which Mr. Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary-General, will be invested as the new Chancellor of the University. |
| | | | Date Published: 12/08/2008 | | | |   |
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