The School of Allied Health Sciences has awarded sixty (60) students for exceptional academic performance at its Dean’s Awards Ceremony.

The deserving students – from level 100 to 400 – obtained Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.5 and above during the 2021/22 academic year.

The students received certificates for their accomplishments with undisclosed sums of cash prizes.

Addressing the students, the Dean of the School, Prof. Desmond Omane Acheampong, congratulated the awardees on their academic achievements and advised them not to rest on their laurels. He encouraged other students who could not make it on the Dean's Award list to strive to study hard to make it on the award list next academic year.

Prof. Acheampong charged lecturers of the School to give the students practical and real experience-based teaching to prepare them well to meet the global job market.

Some participants in the awards ceremony

The Dean also announced that plans were advanced to award lecturers at the School. The move, Prof. Acheampong observed, was to motivate lecturers to give off their best to enhance teaching and learning at the School.

"Already we have Dean’s awards for students but we also think we need to award the lecturers who teach the students so we are thinking of awarding lecturers come next Academic year,” he explained.

Other faculty members used the occasion to commend the students and advised them not to be complacent in their studies.

As part of the programme, a consultative meeting was held to enable management of the School to get first-hand complaints from students regarding their studies.

The Dean, as well as faculty, responding to the students' challenges, promised to iron out their difficulties with alacrity.

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC