He said it was high time the country looked at other areas of educational training within, rather than sending Ghanaians abroad to be trained as oil and gas experts.
The Vice Chancellor, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, made this known on Friday at the congregation ceremony held at the Great Hall on the Legon campus of the University.
Addressing the media during the occasion, he said the school has introduced new graduate programmes including Master of Science and Master of Philosophy programmes in Computer Science and Professional Master of Science programme in Medical Laboratory Sciences at the School of Allied Health Sciences.
The Government of Ghana has already made significant investments in communications infrastructure and continues to seek solutions, which leverage the infrastructure to improve government services and extend the reach of such services to all its citizens, in particular the most vulnerable, Yusupha B. Crookes, Country Director for Ghana said.
Mrs. Angelina Mensah, the Chief Programme Officer in-charge-of Public Affairs, tld the GNA in an interview that the device was officially inaugurated at their premises last week.
She said employees' altitude to work remained embarrassing and unproductive and so management found it prudent and relevant to adopt such a technique to curb the indiscipline among employees.
Refusing to disclose all the information and finer details of this alleged grand plan, the source told the New Statesman that several clandestine meetings between the ruling party and the top hierarchy of the EC have been held in recent weeks, specifically about this proposal. This has even resulted in planned changes at the IT Department of the EC.
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