KNUST Vice Chancellor urges workers to take advantage of distance learning

Professor Williams Otto Ellis, Vice Chancellor of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has advised workers to take advantage of distance learning programmes to upgrade themselves.

He said distance learning programmes had been designed in such a way that workers would be comfortable working and at the same time learning without necessarily staying on campus.

Professor Otto Ellis gave the advice at an orientation programme for Postgraduate fresh men and women, organized by the Institute of Distance Learning of KNUST in Koforidua, over the weekend.

The Vice Chancellor, who addressed the students online, urged them to consider themselves fortunate because out of the 2,265 applications received only 1,823 were admitted, representing about 60 percent.

Prof Otto Ellis advised them to study hard and make use of the opportunity offered them.

He cautioned them against bad behaviours, since the university would not accept any form of indiscipline from any student.

Mr Foster Ofori, Coordinator of the Koforidua Centre of the programme, said 95 people gained admission to take the postgraduate course in the centre.

He appealed to the students to take the course seriously and attend lectures regularly.

Mr Samuel A. Smith, a Lecturer of KNUST, who represented the Dean of Faculty, Institute of Distance Learning, urged the students to see themselves “as students and not chief executives officers and managing directors”, anytime they attend lectures.

He said the KNUST-Institute of Distance Learning was unique in the country and internationally, in the sense that it was being run in all Commonwealth countries across the globe and that students offering the programme could attend lectures at any part of the country.

Source: GNA