Students urged to use knowledge to effect progressive change
Very Reverend Dr Livingstone Komla Buamah, Chancellor of the Evangelical Presbyterian University College (EPUC) in Ho, on Saturday urged students of the university to use their knowledge as “instruments of positive and progressive change.”
“We are determined to effect positive, progressive, qualitative and quantitative change within our immediate environment and beyond,” he said.
Very Rev. Buamah was addressing the Fourth Matriculation of more than 400 new students of the university.
He said: “Scholarship is a precious and priceless business. Let us not toy with it.”
Very Rev. Buamah said the world needed change and that “change must begin within us, between us, among us, around us and beyond us.”
He observed that a major challenge facing educational institutions today had to do with making knowledge available to the average person so that he or she could be informed and transformed.
“While some intellectuals pride themselves in flamboyance and obscurantism others make it their business to simplify and clarify that which is complex, opaque and obscure so that it can be of challenging relevance in life and for life.” he said.
Mr Walter Komla Blege, President of the EPUC, said 281 or 70 per cent of the over 400 new students had opted to pursue their programmes at the weekends.
He said; “The heavy patronage of the weekend session gives credence to our claim that we are a true worker-friendly and community-based institution”.
Mr Blege cautioned the students against becoming part of “the world full of educated derelicts,” as stated by Bill Newman, Author of “10 Laws of Leadership”.
He cautioned the students that they would be embarking “on an impossible venture” if their aim of entering the university was merely to acquire knowledge for its sake.
He expressed gratitude to a number of individuals and institutions for supporting the EPUC.
Professor Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, Dean of Faculty of Education, University of Cape Coast, urged the EPUC to adopt that university’s “best practices without re-inventing the wheel”.
He advised the new students to reflect the discipline, responsible behaviour and respect of the EPUC and the UCC and be guided by their aims of coming to the university.
Meanwhile, Mr Kofi Kludjeson of Kludjeson International Limited, has presented 10 new N-Computers estimated at 20,000 Ghana cedis to the EPUC in fulfilment of his promise to the institution.
Source: GNA