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A two-member delegation from the Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland has paid a day’s working visit to Kumasi Polytechnic to explore possible areas of academic collaboration.
The delegation which comprised Tom Allardyce, GCU manager in charge of Africa, Middle East, Asia and South America operations and Dr. Jim Reilley, of the School of Health and Life Sciences.
The Rector of Kumasi Polytechnic, Prof. N.N.N. Nsowah-Nuamah, in his welcome remarks, said the institution is the premier Polytechnic in Ghana and the fourth best tertiary institution in the country.
“It is our expectation that by the same time next year K-Poly would have been converted into a technical university,” he said.
Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah recounted several interactions between the two institutions, which culminated in visits by Kumasi Polytechnic staff to the GCU and vice versa.
“We acknowledge the role GCU played in K-Poly attaining the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS) accreditation,” said Prof. Nsowah-Nuamah.
The Rector said: “We are currently constructing a new and bigger campus at Kuntanase, as our present campus is overpopulated and cannot contain the institution adequately. I hope K-Poly will be considered favourably when the GCU decides to enter into academic future collaborations.”
Dr. Reilley in his remarks said, the Glasgow Caledonian University shares a similar history, having been created by an act of parliament in 1993 even though, it existed as a college long before that.
He said it is crucial for the two institutions to seek ways to collaborate. “There is potential for student and staff exchanges.
“Optometry, Dispensing, Psychology, Nursing, Community Heath are some of the courses we offer at the School of Health and Life Sciences,” said Dr Reilley.
Tom Allardyce, for his part, noted that as K-Poly was developing a new campus, the two institutions can explore the possibility of putting up purpose built laboratories for a GCU Centre to offer their programmes.
He said GCU currently has campuses in Glasgow and London and in total has a student population of about 17,000 with Business courses accounting for about half the number of students.
The delegation inspected facilities in the Polytechnic.
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