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12th February, 2010
Otumfuo Commissions Post Graduate Block For KNUST
THE Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II on Wednesday, commissioned a post graduate block for the College of Architecture and Planning at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
The block is to provide residential and office accommodation for Ph.D students, seminar rooms for masters and students. It also has a library, a computer laboratory and offices for professors of the college.
The project, which took years to complete, was financed through the Internally Generated Fund (IGF) of the college and was designed by staff members from the College of Engineering of the university.
Briefing the Asantehene who is also the Chancellor of the university at a short ceremony to commission the project, the Provost of the College, Prof S. O. Asiamah, said currently there were 380 students comprising Ph.D, M.Sc, M.Phil and post graduate diploma.
He said on the main problems facing the college and the entire university was the competition for space between post-graduate and under graduate students.
According to him, it was to solve this problem that the college and the university decided to use its IGF to construct the block to provide classroom and office spaces for the students.
Out of the number of student at the college, he said, 287 were currently “in residence and the rest are at various stages of completion of their courses.”
Prof Asiamah said the importance of post-graduate education in the country’s economy could not be over-emphasised as it was through post-graduate research that “solutions to the problems that surround us would be solved and no expense should be too much in promoting post graduate education in Ghana.
He said the construction of the block was the college’s modest contribution to a worthy cause and called on government and the private sector to play their respective roles in moving post-graduate education to higher heights in the country.
The Asantehene later inspected other projects including the staff quarters for the university security personnel, an examination block and a science block being financed by the Ghana Educational Trust Fund.
The block is to provide residential and office accommodation for Ph.D students, seminar rooms for masters and students. It also has a library, a computer laboratory and offices for professors of the college.
The project, which took years to complete, was financed through the Internally Generated Fund (IGF) of the college and was designed by staff members from the College of Engineering of the university.
Briefing the Asantehene who is also the Chancellor of the university at a short ceremony to commission the project, the Provost of the College, Prof S. O. Asiamah, said currently there were 380 students comprising Ph.D, M.Sc, M.Phil and post graduate diploma.
He said on the main problems facing the college and the entire university was the competition for space between post-graduate and under graduate students.
According to him, it was to solve this problem that the college and the university decided to use its IGF to construct the block to provide classroom and office spaces for the students.
Out of the number of student at the college, he said, 287 were currently “in residence and the rest are at various stages of completion of their courses.”
Prof Asiamah said the importance of post-graduate education in the country’s economy could not be over-emphasised as it was through post-graduate research that “solutions to the problems that surround us would be solved and no expense should be too much in promoting post graduate education in Ghana.
He said the construction of the block was the college’s modest contribution to a worthy cause and called on government and the private sector to play their respective roles in moving post-graduate education to higher heights in the country.
The Asantehene later inspected other projects including the staff quarters for the university security personnel, an examination block and a science block being financed by the Ghana Educational Trust Fund.
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