The UCC Local Executives of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) have organised a seminar for selected senior high schools.
The opening prayer for the seminar was said by the Local NUGS Women’s Commissioner, Rachael Laryea, and the welcome address was by Mr. Opoku Agyemang.
The first speaker of the seminar, Mr. Jeff Teye Onyame (UCC Deputy Registrar Academics) spoke on programme choices and the electives required. He stressed on the proper selection of electives for a specified programme and further added that C6 is the least grade that the University considers.
Mr. Onyame further revealed that the School of Business is now running only Bachelor of Commerce programmes such as Accounting, Finance, Human Resource Management etc. He added that Medicine is strictly fee paying and that the cut off points for various programmes depend on the vacancies available for that academic year and the level of performance in the WASSCE.
The second speaker, Dr. Eric Nyarko-Simpson talked about career choices and further studies in the University of Cape Coast saying that the minimum qualification for further studies in the University is Second Class Lower Division of first degree.
Regular masters students take 2 years to complete their programme of study whereas MPhil students take 3 years. He further stressed on career options by distinguishing the points of departures between work or job and a career by saying that a job is what one does while a career is what one does for the life time.
Dr. Nyarko-Simpson further reiterated on how the dynamics of the world of work makes a trained person to be unemployed simply because there is no job for them to occupy. He ended with the factors influencing the choice of a career. He stated them as intellectual ability, aptitude, family, nature of job, self concept and interest.
The programme was attended by students from Mfantsipim School, Oguaa Secondary Technical School and Academy of Christ the King .
