1,381 students graduated from Sunyani Technical University

A total of 1,381 students graduated from STU

A total of 1,381 students have graduated from Sunyani Technical University (STU), with a higher national diploma and non-tertiary certificates.

Comprised of 852 men and 529 women, the graduates were enrolled in the 2019/2020 academic year and completed programs in Engineering, TVET, Applied Science and Technology, Applied Arts, and Business and Management.

In terms of distribution by class, 117 of them obtained the first class, 703, the second upper class, 522, the second lower class with 39 obtaining a Pass.

Addressing the 13th (virtual) congregation ceremony at Sunyani University, STU vice-chancellor Prof Kwadwo Adinkrah-Appiah said 800 of the graduates were engineering, science and technology, TVET students. and applied science and technology, while 581 of them pursued business programs.

He explained that the university had implemented seven new four-year Bachelor of Technology programs that had been accredited by the Ghana Higher Education Commission (GTEC) in 2020, adding that 514 first-year students were enrolled in were already enrolled in the programs.

Prof Adinkrah-Appiah added that management is working hard to gain accreditation for six other programs, which were aligned with the university’s niche area of ​​electrical and electronic engineering, which will be introduced during the next year. next academic year.

The university, he explained, was still pursuing its staff development programs, claiming that currently more than 40 staff are sponsored to obtain higher degrees, especially terminal (doctorate) degrees, by through staff development grants from the Internally Generated Fund (IGF) and GETFUND, both locally and abroad. institutions.

Professor Adinkrah-Appiah said the university paid a total of 150,000 GHC from its IGF as a fee to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on behalf of staff who were sponsored to pursue studies. doctoral programs in engineering and other fields. .

Other new sponsorship applications are in various stages of review by the Staff Development and Fellowship Committee, he added.

The vice-chancellor called on the government to urgently connect all the technical universities in the country to the Internet project “Free ECG Wi-Fi” which had already been extended to certain public universities.

This would allow students and staff at technical universities to effectively lead teaching and learning in the era of COVID-19.

Engineer Dr Kwame A. Boakye, Chairman of the STU Board, stressed that Ghana’s aspiration to become an upper middle-income country could not be achieved without integrating science, technology, engineering and innovation in national development strategies.

“To achieve the national goals of poverty reduction, business competitiveness, sustainable management of the environment and industrial growth and Ghana Beyond Aid, technical universities must become an indispensable part of the effort,” said he added.