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Promoting Peace among Student Religious Groups in Public Universities in Ghana: UDS, Wa Campus in Perspective
No full textIn Ghana, religion is important to many students and their inclinations toward faith, spirituality, and peaceful coexistence, have manifested in the development of religious organizations on school campuses of all types. Recent studies , have identified a number of interreligious conflicts in some educational institutions in the country. Against this background, the University for Development Studies (UDS), Wa Campus, which hosts 13 student religious-based groups was selected with the objective of examining the mechanisms employed by these groups to foster peace among students regardless of their doctrinal differences. Primary data were gathered through interviews in a case study design involving 28 student leaders from ten religious groups and three key informants who were purposely selected. The study revealed that the mechanisms employed by these campus-based religious groups in promoting peace include the following: preaching and teaching of peace, organisation of interfaith dinner and games, exchange of pulpit and periodic intercessory fasting and prayers for followers and the masses. This paper recommends that periodic education on religious tolerance should be carried out by amalgamated religious bodies and university managements to help deepen the understanding and knowledge of students about religious pluralism and the need for peaceful coexistence
Pay for Performance: Evaluating Performance Appraisal and Merit Pay Increase in the University of Education, Winneba.
Get PDFThe study assessed the effectiveness of the performance appraisal scheme as a compensation tool in granting merit pay increase (annual increment). The Expectation Theory Model was used to understand the trend in high performance rating. It appeared that the performance appraisal system is unable to discriminate effectively among different levels of performance and that merit award (annual increment) to staff was automatic. The subject of rewarding staff in the University should be given greater attention
Crash Helmet Types, Usage and Safety Implications for Student Motorcyclists in the Wa Municipality, Ghana
No full textAcross the globe, crash helmets are promoted as the most effective protective gear against head injuries and preventable deaths. Although crash helmets offer protection to users, their degree of protection vary according to the types, namely Full- face, Open- face or Half- face. Apparently, among crash helmet related studies that provide information on the relevance of helmets to riders, there is little information on helmet types and their safety implications in Ghana. Against this background, 78 student motorcyclists from three tertiary institutions and two key informants in the Wa Municipality were selected through quota and purposive sampling techniques in a qualitative research design. Primary data gathered through interviews revealed that 41% of student helmet users are less likely to suffer preventable deaths and injuries from motor crashes due to the use of the Full- face crash helmets which are deemed the most effective and globally recommended helmets. The relative low patronage of the Full-face helmets requires periodic educational campaigns by management and student leadership of tertiary institutions, the Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service and the Ghana National Road Safety Commission to orient student motorcyclists about the dangers of not wearing the Full-face helmets
Social media use and its importance in institutional communication strategy
Get PDFSocial media continues to develop and has increased in type and categories. It use has increased tremendously and this has been assisted by the availability of affordable communication devices like smart phones. Institutions that want to engage the public cannot ignore social media in their communication strategy. The write-up discusses the types of social media, their characteristics that has made it possible for their increased adoption and use. It outlines their advantages and disadvantages and indicates how institutions should safely use it. It recommends that Ghanaian tertiary institutions should develop appropriate social media use policies and also institute training schemes for persons who will want to engage the public on institution's behalf
Issues and Challenges of Minutes Writing: A University Assistant Registrar’s Perspective
Get PDFThis paper discusses the importance of minutes writing, the conventional structure of minutes and some implications for an Assistant Registrar as a secretary. It concludes that writing minutes can be tedious but worth doing with the needed and appropriate skil
Evaluation of the Mentoring Scheme for Female Senior Members in the University of Education, Winneba
Get PDFThis study sought to evaluate the mentoring scheme for the female senior members of the University of Education, Winneba in five key areas. First it determined the level of mentoring experience that both the mentors and mentees had. It also assessed the benefits that the mentees derived from the scheme. The study further examined participants’ opinions about the scheme, possible challenges faced by both mentors and mentees on the scheme as well as recommendations for improvement. Ten mentors and forty female mentees were randomly selected for the study and a semi-structured interview type was used to gather data from the participants. The study adopted qualitative but descriptive survey and therefore the Atlas ti software was used for the data analysis. The outcome of the analysis indicated that both mentors and mentees had some level of experience in the exercise and most of the mentors however, had earlier experience before the inception of the scheme. There were however, some challenges faced by both mentors and mentees. These were: heavy work schedules family responsibilities and differences in areas of speciality. Suggestions for improving upon the scheme included expansion of its focus area and organisation of more workshops for the participants
THE CONCEPT OF COOK AND EAT: A SEMANTICS ASPECT OF COOK AND EAT VERBS IN EWE
Get PDFThe discourse of this paper is on properties of meaning surrounding COOK and EAT verbs in Ewe. Cooking and eating are crucial activities undertaken by flora and fauna species. These phenomena are universal, easily perceptible and basic in human classifications. Conceptualizing COOK and EAT is subjective and differs across languages and contexts. The Ewe language uses descriptive sets of rich mechanisms to establish meaning and its variants. The concept of COOK and EAT have fine-grained meaning relations on events and contexts, defining their performances. A cursory look is also taken on swallowing verbs which are negligible end products of eating. The study founds ?a and ?u respectively depicting ‘cook’ and ‘eat’ in Ewe and there are verbs that elicit other cooking and eating forms under each. The concepts show ‘we cook to eat and we eat cooked foods’ as we describe the processes, manner and other factors defining cook and eat actions. The cooking and eating verbs describe the medium and process in which the ‘cooking’ and the ‘eating’ take place. Detailed discussions on the concepts and relations about cooking and eating in Ewe reveal the presence of precise and specific verbs establishing the meanings. Exploring syntactic constructions and effects of the verbs reveal descriptive and typological perspectives persuading their meanings. The data drawn is by elicitation from two adult respondents each from four major dialect regions of the Ghana Ewe groups (Anlo, Avenor, Tongu and E?edome). These native-speakers were consulted using recorded cook and eat video scripts and still pictures from the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 Department of Ewe Education Students’ Week Celebrations in the University of Education, Winneba
APPLYING ADLERIAN THERAPY TO ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES IN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Get PDFChildhood experiences have been documented to influence later life experience of individuals in terms of their intra-and-interpersonal wellbeing. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events that occur before a child gets to the age of 18 as described by the Centre for Disease Control and Protection (CDC). The purpose of the study was to explore the lived experiences, and meanings that university students attached to their ACEs and their effect on their intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict on campus adjustment. Homogeneous purposive and snowball sampling techniques were used to sample 15 students from three public universities in the Greater Accra Region. This study aligned to the interpretivist paradigm which informed the use of the hermeneutic phenomenological qualitative design. Using interview and focus groups, findings of the study highlighted some meanings that the participants ascribed to their ACEs as neglect and abuse from parents, indecision and humiliation. It was also found out that these experiences shaped participants intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts, making them have trust issues, suicidal ideation and difficulty in making friends. Although these students have adopted either positive or negative coping strategies to adjust to their campus life, it is recommended that university students be screened by university counsellors to identify those at risk for early intervention
Service Delivery and Satisfaction of Students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi: Implications for Educational Administration.
No full textThere is a dearth of research on the relationship between service delivery and the level of students’ satisfaction about the services provided by universities. Using Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, as a case, this paper examines the services delivered to students, their satisfaction levels and the implications for future educational service delivery strategies. Adopting the case study approach, we used semi-structured interviews to collect data from 443 students across the six Colleges of the University. We find that students were willing to pay extra for quality customer service, recommend the institution to other prospective students and are ready to return for further studies. However, most of the respondents held the view that their suggestions to the University about areas of service delivery improvement were not addressed. Hence, we conclude that the University needs to work with students and design service improvement strategies to bring about student satisfaction in the services
Senior Administrators as legitimate partners in the strategic management of the University of Education, Winneba; an inside view
Get PDFStrategic management of institutions of higher education largely unfold in the context of funding, increased emphasis on efficiency of resources, utilisation and
management, and a strengthening of policy and planning roles of key administrators. Administrators in the Senior Member category are key in the planning and implementation of strategic management of the University. This paper attempts to tell the role played by Senior administrators in the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) as key partners in the strategic management of the institution. Senior Members in the UEW administration numbering 68, provided the data on the role they play in the strategic management of UEW and Version 16 of SPSS was used to analyse the data. It was realised that Senior Member administrators of UEW facilitate and implement the strategic plans and therefore play a very critical role in the strategic management of the university and, therefore should be considered as legitimate partners in the strategic management of UEW