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TSI Hosts Physically-Challenged


As part of its social responsibility programmes, Trinity Spirit International (TSI) on Saturday, October 23, 2011, organised a night of interaction with the physically-challenged on the premises of Trinity Campus, at Mataheko, Accra.

The programme, dubbed ‘Project Agape’ and organised in collaboration with the university, provided a congenial atmosphere for a close fellowship with these loved ones who, though may include relations, friends, acquaintances or faces one often meets in the traffic, feel rejected by the larger society.

They were treated to food and drinks and went away with various gifts and happy feelings that they were, after all, not social outcasts, but bona fide members of the society with equal rights with their fellow citizens.

Speaking at the occasion, Victor C. T. Ofinam-Antwi, Communications and Helps Desk Manager of the university, urged them not to bemoan their circumstances, but to exploit their individual talents and strengths to their advantage.

He observed that though the government, social organisations, or individuals may present them with wheel chairs, clutches and other interventions to make life more enjoyable for them, it is, invariably, in their power to reject self-pity and to translate what others give them into treasurers for improving their circumstances.

Speaking to the media after the programme, Mr. Ned Morgan, TSI president, said his group was moved by the love of God demonstrated through Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross for the sinner to do whatever it could practically, to win all people, regardless of their social backgrounds, for Christ.

Present at the occasion, among others, was Mrs. Florence Larbi, the University Counsellor.

Prof. Kingsley Larbi Wants Basic Schools Upgraded


The President and CEO, has urged the government to make pragmatic efforts to upgrade all basic schools to enable final products of the country’s educational system compete favourably with others in an ICT-driven age.

He said the idea of establishing one Class A or model schools in each district in the country is not the best solution to the country’s educational problems, noting that the government should rather ensure that every school is equally endowed as a more proactive view of the global picture.

Prof. Kingsley Larbi made the observation as guest speaker on Saturday, October 15, 2011 at a ceremony climaxing this year’s week-long Odwira festival of the chiefs and people of Larteh-Akuapem.

The well-attended ceremony was used to raise funds in aid of a nurses’ quarters and other projects in Guanman.
Speaking about the poor health delivery in the town and other places in the country, Prof. Kingsley Larbi regretted that computers donated to enhance the work of the hospital in the town are still abandoned in boxes with health personnel not having desks to work with.

On the problems undermining the town’s infrastructural development, the Regent University President called on the traditional leaders of the town to unite and identify talented and passionate citizens who could constitute committees with set targets to be achieved within time frames and to report back to the chiefs during future festivals for further review.

He observed that while some projects could as well be adopted by individuals, heads of various institutions should also come together to work towards raising the living standards of the people.

Rev. Prof. Kingsley-Larbi noted that if the youth of the town should stay at home to study, necessary facilities like a well-stocked library should be provided where they could spend time for self-development.

He cautioned that it should never be said that “the town could not develop because of chieftaincy rivalry.”

Regent-MSM MBA Students visit Maastricht


Participants of the 3rd intake of the Regent-Maastricht MBA students were in Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands, for their attachment. Their attachment started on September 26, 2011 and ended on October 6, 2011. During their stay at MSM, Dr. R. Goedegebuure delivered the following modules: Marketing in a Global Context and Master Thesis Writing Workshop.

Apart from the lectures from Dr. R. Goedegebuure, the Ghanaian MBA students also participated in work visits.

On the 3rd of October they visited the European Commission in Brussels, Mr. Vanderappellen and Mr Ruesch did presentations on “The European Institutions” and “Development Policy” respectively. On 5th October the students visited IKEA for a presentation on IKEA’s approach to Marketing.

The Regent community warmly welcomes the group from the Netherlands and wishes them success in the rest of their programmes.

Dean of SIE Delivers Paper on Nano-Engineering


Dr. Stanley Moffatt, Dean of the School of Informatics and Engineering (SIE), and Co-ordinator for USEACANI (US-Europe-Asia-Caribbean Nanotechnology Initiative) in Africa, has urged the need to bridge the nano-divide as an innovative science to alleviate the miserable medical plight of the needy in Africa.

Dr. Moffatt was addressing the just-ended first European Congress of Applied Nanotechnology held in Berlin, Germany from September 26 to October 1, 2011.

Delivering an insightful and intellectually-stimulating paper entitled "Nanoengineering in Africa: A Myth or Reality? the dean defined  nanotechnology as the science (creation and utilization) of materials, devices and systems through the control of matter at the nanometer scale, i.e., at the level of atoms, molecules and supra-molecular structures. 

He said Nanoscience, the foundation by which all natural materials are established, is, therefore, the next industrial revolution that would re-structure the technologies currently used for manufacturing, defense, energy production, communication, computation, engineering and medicine.

Dr. Moffatt, who has copious publications and enormous expertise in this technically innovative discipline, noted that when reduced to the nanoscale, the physics and chemistry of the materials become radically different; having different strengths, conductivity, better permeability and reactivity, which could be exploited to revolutionize engineering and medicine.

Dr. Moffatt defined nanoengineering in the field of medicine as involving various programmes for application of newly-emerging nanotechnologies for drug delivery, enhancement in medical imaging and medical treatment, based on molecular processes at the cellular level.

He stated that Nanotechnology holds enormous potential for healthcare, from delivering drugs more effectively, diagnosing diseases more rapidly and sensitively, and delivering more effective vaccines, bearing in mind that almost all areas of nanoengineering are directly relevant to humans because of the importance of nanoscale phenomena to cellular functions.

Though some critics argue that when millions of people in countries like India or those in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Ghana, are dying because of a lack of access to even basic healthcare, investing in cutting-edge technologies is a ludicrous waste of money, Dr. Moffatt argued that, while poor countries have an ongoing responsibility to strengthen healthcare systems and provide wider access to medicine, investments in nanoengineering could, in the long run, save lives by making diagnosis and treatment far more effective.
It is not surprising that many emerging economies such as Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore and South Africa, have ambitious research and development (R&D) plans for nanoengineering.

Dr. Moffatt argued that though Africans have the skill and power to revolutionize research through nanoengineering, the third engineering revolution of the last 200 years is sadly passing by the continent, making Africans ”spectators" as the world turns.
He stressed that Africans must not remain spectators forever and strongly proposed that African scientists must hasten to accelerate their innovative contributions in nanoengineering to alleviate poverty-related diseases in Africa.

The Dean said Ghana, and Africa for that matter, is endowed  with scientists possessing  the intellectual ability and the relevant track record of achievement to make Africans contributors to knowledge and holders of patents that will earn the continent respect as elevating the human condition, and not just as "consumers of the products of the ingenuity of others."  

To do this, Dr. Moffatt said the government and private sectors must give pure and applied science national priority and endowed scientists encouraged through "meritocracy," and not the usual human networking and nepotism which, he regretted, has bedeviled Africa for so long.

The Dean further regretted that most of Africa’s mission-less and vision-less elected political leaders are only interested in lining their own pockets, and living lives of comfort with flagrant disregard for the future of the continent, the poverty-stricken, and the implications of the neglect to promote science and technology locally.
He warned that Africans shall continue to be hewers of wood and drawers of water for developed nations if they do not give innovative science in nanoengineering a pride of place in national budgets.

The international workshop started on the 26th of September and ended on the 1st of October 2011.

Prof Kingsley Larbi To Speak At Maastricht Graduation


Prof. E. Kingsley Larbi, President and CEO, left Accra on Monday, September 5 for The Netherlands where he was expected to be Guest Speaker for this year’s graduation ceremony of the Maastricht School of Management (MSM) scheduled for September 8, 2011.
Prof Kingsley Larbi whose invitation was at the instance of Prof. Dr. Peter P. de Gijsel, Dean-Director of Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands, was expected to speak to students and guests from around the world, including the second intake of the Regent-Maastricht MBA class graduating on September 8.
The Regent University College of Science and Technology runs the only AMBA-accredited MBA in Ghana in collaboration with the Maastricht School of Management, the third intake of which is half-way through the course.  The Regent-Maastricht MBA prepares students for the award of the degree of Masters of Business Administration (MBA). 
The Regent-Maastricht MBA programme is a flexible two-year programme that offers participants the opportunity to attend lectures in the evenings and weekends. It further affords them the privilege to combine studies with work and domestic.
The programme is run on a modular basis, allowing students to attend lectures on weekends.

The MBA programme aims at teaching concepts and theories of management, stimulating critical thinking and transforming management problems into opportunities from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The general approach includes lectures, problem-based learning exercises, case studies analysis, students’ participation, seminars, discussions, independent studies, field visits and Maastricht Attachments.

13 Regent-Ghana Students Receive Maastricht MBAs


Thirteen students of the Regent University College of Science and Technology, alongside over 150 others from more than 25 countries around the world, were on Thursday September 8, 2011, awarded the prestigious Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree by the Maastricht School of Management (MSM), the largest international business school in The Netherlands. Also awarded was Joanna Adjoa Komey, a Regent-Ghana alumnus, who got an MSM-Regent scholarship to pursue the programme in Maastricht.

The Regent University College of Science and Technology runs the only AMBA-accredited MBA in Ghana in collaboration with the Maastricht School of Management. The Regent-Maastricht MBA prepares students for the award of the degree of Masters of Business Administration (MBA). The students who graduated were the second intake since the programme began in Ghana. The third intake is currently half-way through the course.

The Regent-Maastricht MBA programme is a flexible modular-based two-year programme in which lectures are delivered in the evenings and weekends, hence affording participants the opportunity to combine studies with work and other domestic activities.

The MBA programme aims at teaching concepts and theories of management, stimulating critical thinking and transforming management problems into opportunities from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The general approach includes lectures, problem-based learning exercises, case studies analysis, students' participation, seminars, discussions, independent studies, field visits and Maastricht Attachments.

Students who graduated are:

  1. Afful Dominic
  2. Agbai Jefferson Worlanyo
  3. Enimil-Armah Adwoa
  4. Vanderpuije Valarie Naa Dodua
  5. Boateng-Sarpong Adriana
  6. Amanfu Anita
  7. Annan Samuel Benjamin
  8. Aryee Joseph Ronald
  9. Niboi Bennet Elvis
  10. Agbewali Francis Edem
  11. Nii Acquah II Princemord Amardey Wellington
  12. Antwi Alex
  13. Danso Kenneth Ayeh

 


Address by Rev Prof. Kingsley Larbi at Dedication Ceremony


Honourable Minister; Distinguished Invited Guests:

As a nation, we need to work together to restore hope to all our people. We need to erase the wrong perception that, though the country is for all of us, only few people can prosper while working or practicing their vocations or professions in this country. We need to erase the perception that we need to go and live in other countries, especially the western countries before we can make a decent life or be able to acquire the basic necessities of life.

We need to create an enabling environment so that every Ghanaian, who works hard in this country and applies the best practices, will be able to live a decent live and fully fulfill his or her dream.

We should create an enabling environment so that:

The school teacher, the artisan, the trader, the farmer, the police man, the soldier, the driver, the nurse, the medical doctor, the academic, the technocrat, the business man or woman, etc, who works hard in this country, can live decently and retire honourably. A wrong perception that has been created in this country, and indeed, in our continent, is that it is when we enter into partisan politics, or are associated with certain power structures, or are involved in certain shady deals, or travel particularly to the western world, that we can become prosperous, or will be able to acquire certain necessities of life.

As a nation, our leaders have particular responsibility to restore hope to the entire citizenry; they have to work towards the creation of an enabling environment so that every Ghanaian can live a decent life with the expectation of a bright future, here in Ghana.

Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen: Our University bought a power generator from Anointed Electrical Engineering Services for our corporate headquarters, at Dansoman, somewhere in 2007. Right at that time, I saw Mr. Boateng as a strong minded, determined, focused man. About a month ago, I called him to discuss the acquisition of a new generator for our City Campus, at the Graphic Road. I agreed to see him so I headed towards the shop he was previously operating from, down the road here. I reached the place but could not see the signage. It was thereafter that I was informed he had relocated his shop. I called him again and he redirected me to this place.

When I got here, I met a determined and an enthusiastic man. I saw the spirit of excellence as he conducted me around. My earlier impressions about him as a hardworking man were confirmed. When I got to my office at the Graphic Road, I encouraged our Vice President for Administration and others to try and visit his facilities. Ladies and Gentlemen, I could not hide my excitement. The success story of Mr. Boateng confirms my strong conviction that Ghanaians can capture and dominate the commanding heights of our economy when they are properly trained and an enabling environment is created. As of now, this does not seem to be the case for most of our people. This, we must work to correct!

Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen, two biblical texts have of late assumed fresh meaning to me - Genesis 1: 28, and Acts 17: 26.

Gen. 1: 28: God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it; Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

Acts: 17:26: From one he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the earth: he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.

Original Mandate: Fruitfulness/productivity, filling and subduing the earth, ruling the earth.

This mandate, we have to be able to exercise, wherever we are located. That is where we belong, all of us! And, that is what we must aspire to achieve.

Thank you and may our good Lord bless us all.

 


Regent Revises Course Evaluation Procedures


Management has revised the end of semester/trimester course evaluation procedures that are normally handled by a few individuals. Thus, beginnig from January 2011, the procedure will be as follows:
  1. During the last week of lectures for any particular semester/trimester, individual lecturers will collect envelopes (each labeled with the course name and course number that he/she teaches,and containing a required number of the course evaluation forms) from their respective Departmental offices.

  2. During each lecturer's last session for the semester/trimester, he/she closes about 30 minutes before time and hands the course evaluation forms over to the class representative.

  3. The class representative distributes the forms to all students who will complete them in the class and return them to the class representative.

  4. The class representaive will place all completed (and uncompleted) forms back in the envelope, seal it and return it to either the deans office, the departmental office or a campus manager (whichever is most convenient).
    (Note: Forms kept overnight will be declared null and void).

  5. All completed forms will be forwarded to the officer in charge for further processing

  6. Evaluation reports will be distributed to lecturers, department and school heads and management before the beginning of the subsequent semester/trimester
Management wishes to emphasize that the course evaluation is neither an administrative routine nor a strategy to aid in the victimisation of lecturers and/or students. Its main purpose is to provide valuable feedback to lecturers for performance improvement and personal professional development.



Management Directs the Enforcement of University Policies


Management has noted with concern, the apparent lack of adherence to most University policies on the part of all members of the Regent-Ghana community. Notice is therefore being served that, henceforth the following policies must be complied with, and defaulters will face the appropriate sanctions.
  1. Wearing of ID cards
    All students must, with immediate effect, wear their ID cards as soon as they step foot on the Univeristy premises. Students who do not have card holders/lanyards should call at the reception of any of the campuses to be directed on the steps to take to get these.

  2. Usage of the University's Email Address
    Every legitimate member of the University community must use the Regent email for all official correspondences. In view of this, members who do not have (or have diffuclties using) the Regent email address are to contact the I.T. Department for configuration/confirmation of their email addresses.

  3. Student Payment of University Fees
    All fees are due in full by the third week of each semester/trimester. However, students who are unable to meet this requirement can opt for the flexible payment programme. In this programme, students pay 50% of fees by the third week of the semester/trimester, 25% by mid-semester, and 25% before the beginning of end of semester exams. Students who opt for this programme but fail to abide by it will be deemed to have lost their status as students and will therefore be barred from subsequent lectures and exams untill they fulfil their obligation.

    All lecturers and administrators are to ensure that this policy is adhered to by taking the necessary steps to keep students updated on their financial obligations to the University, and also applying the necessary sanctions such as walking students out of classes etc.


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