The Vice-Chancellor of Koforidua Technical University (KTU) Prof. David Kofi Essumang has said, the University contributes an estimated amount of over Ghc12 million yearly to the local economy of Koforidua.
He said the financial contributions come in diverse forms in terms of spending of its over 10,000 students and Lecturers on campus.
Again, the establishment of the University since 1997 has created many employment opportunities directly and indirectly for the locals.
He said apart from these, the University trains students to fix societal problems
Prof David Essumang explained that students from KTU’s biomedical engineering technology department for instance continue to support the Eastern Regional Hospital and other health facilities by fixing and servicing broken-down medical equipment.
According to the VC, these tells the critical role KTU plays in the development of Koforidua and its environs
He said this when speaking at a media soiree held on Friday, January 14, 2021.
The vice-chancellor of Koforidua Technical University, Prof. David Kofi Essumang has meanwhile reiterated the need to diversify and run technical courses that are geared towards industrial needs and also meet the aspirations of government job policies.
“The government has underlined four main key areas to develop the country and technical universities are mandated to help develop and train human resources to fix the many critical issues confronting the mechatronics sector in the country”.
He explained that “every technical university in Ghana is mandated to specialize in a particular field of technical course to meet the aspirations of the government and Koforidua technical university’s core mandate is mechatronics to train adequate human resources that are capable of fixing the new cars being imported into the country”.
He said the university is working around mechatronics to affect all other courses being run in the university particularly electronics and computer science, this he said will help to achieve their objectives.
Three technical universities in Ghana of which Koforidua technical university is part, and now runs a four year Bachelor degree program in Welding and Fabrication Engineering.
He then highlighted some unique courses being run by Koforidua university only such as; Bachelor of Technology in Mechatronics, Bachelor of Technology in Automotive Engineering, Bachelor of technology in food technology, Bachelor of technology in telecommunication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology in Medical laboratory sciences, Bachelor of Technology in Environmental Management and Technology,
Bachelor of Technology in Building Technology, Bachelor of Technology in Integrated Development Planning, Bachelor of Technology in Welding and Fabrication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology in Renewable Energy System Engineering, Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering, and Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science.
The Eastern regional GJA chairman, Maxwell Kudekor called on the university authorities to collaborate with the media by offering scholarship driven courses for journalists in the region, ” this will equip all journalists to acquire knowledge in that field and help enhance their skills in the reporting of technical issues concerning industry and academia”.
Finally, the university led by the vice-chancellor Prof. David Kofi Essumang awarded some journalists whose reportage on issues concerning the university has contributed to the growth and development of the university.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
