VC KICKS-OFF FACULTY TOURS

                                                

                                                 Vice Chancellor and Registrar at Faculty Durbar

 The Vice Chancellor of Takoradi Technical University, Rev. Prof. John Frank Eshun on Monday, June 12th, 2023 kicked off a three-day faculty tour of the University.

The tour which is expected to end on Thursday, June 15th, 2023 has the agenda to foster cordial peer dialogue between the faculties and the Vice Chancellor. It will also discuss relevant subjects including Leadership issues, the Role of Heads of the Departments, and Human Resource issues such as appraisal, motivation, teamwork, discipline, students and financial management.-

Speaking on the first day of the faculty tour at the Faculty of Business Studies at the Butumajebu Campus, Rev. Prof. John Frank Eshun called for a better and more respectable lecturer-student relationship for students to find it attractive to come back to do further studies after their programmes.

“Let us manage the students well. We need to train quality students for national development”, he advised.

On the Role of HoDs concerning academic programmes, the Vice Chancellor said CTVET is seeking to rollout its HND programmes and therefore challenged all HoDs to stick to the set deadline for HoDs to also develop the University’s own HND programmes since most existing HND programmes are outdated.

Rev. Prof. Eshun also speaking on ensuring efficient and effective administration of the faculties, challenged the HoDs to crack the wipe where necessary.

“HoDs must be confident and bold in taking decisions. If a lecturer is not attending lectures, you must be bold to tell him. I know some of the lecturers don’t even follow the timetable for instance“, he said.

While assuring the faculties of support to carry out their mandate, he said management stand committed to resourcing the faculties to do their work.

“We are going to enhance the teaching environment to enable to you to have all you need to teach“, he added.

The Vice-Chancellor further advised faculty members to bury their differences and share for the development of the department and the university.

More so, he encouraged faculty members to nurture stakeholder engagement to help establish collaborations that benefit the faculty and the university.

“Let’s also spend some time to talk to the students on the proper use of utilities and logistics…If for instance, your lecture is the last for the day, please ensure the lights and Air-conditioners are put off”, he added.

“We have an institution to develop and we must make sure that we do our things such that if one TU is to be mentioned, it must be TTU”, he said.

Dr Abnory also conscientize faculty members to help the university to cut down on utility expenditures.

Faculty members also had the opportunity to ask questions, give suggestions and seek clarity on issues.

Day two of the VC’s faculty tour would be at the Faculty of Applied Arts and Technology, Applied Sciences & Centre for Languages and Liberal Studies.

The Vice-Chancellor would, however, end his three-day faculty tour at the Faculty of Engineering & Built and Natural Environment.