Professor Gordon Awandare Reappointed as Chairman of the Governing Council of CKT-UTAS

Professor Gordon Awandare, Chairman of CKT-UTAS Governing Council

His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana, has reappointed Professor Gordon Awandare, the Founding Director of the West Africa Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), to chair the Governing Council of the C. K. Tedam University of Technology and Applied Sciences (CKT-UTAS) in Navrongo, Upper East Region. The eleven-member Council was inaugurated on Friday, August 06, 2021, at the conference hall of the National Accreditation Board, Accra, by the Honorable Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum.

Administering the oaths of office and secrecy to the members of the council, Dr. Adutwum charged them to help students develop critical thinking abilities to enhance the country’s socio-economic development. “To get the critical manpower, management of the university must have critical thinkers to fit into industry needs and transform the country’s development agenda,” he said. He also urged the University to bridge the gap between academia and industry by collaborating with companies to equip students with hands-on work experience. He highlighted the need for CK-UTAS to focus on its core mandate as a technology and engineering institution to demonstrate excellence and give students opportunity to be innovative to solve problems for national development.

Dr. Adutwum further urged the Governing Council of CKT-UTAS to become globally competitive in the pursuit of higher education and assured the members of Government’s commitment to involving the leadership of the University in the development of the new senior high school curriculum to improve teaching and learning.

Professor Gordon Awandare expressed sincere gratitude to His Excellency the President, for the confidence reposed in him. He said the focus of the previous Governing Council, of which he was Chairman, was to build the structures and develop the statutes of the university. “Now, we are going to focus on restructuring the academic programmes to align with global trends and building capacity for research in order to position CKT-UTAS as a globally competitive science and technology university”, he pledged.

The other members of the Council include Professor Eric Magnus Wilmot, Vice- Chancellor of CK-UTAS; Prof. Mrs. Agnes Atiah Apusigah, Dr. Dahamani Alhassan (nominees of the President) and Dr. Cletus Agyeman-Boateng, a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Accounting, University of Ghana Business School.

Members of the newly constituted Governing Council of CKT-UTAS in a group photo with the Minister of Education