University of Ghana launches new website

Accra, June 26, GNA -The University of Ghana (UG) on Thursday outdoored a new website to market and enhance its image. The new website, www.ug.edu.gh was launched by Professor Clifford Nii Boi Tagoe, Vice-Chancellor of the University.

Professor Tagoe said websites had become a key to marketing institutions in today's world of competition and technology. He said visitors had complained that the University came out with the new website because the old one did not give enough information. He said updating the information on the website was the most crucial thing and urged the Public Affairs Department to create a corridor between it and the faculties to get information for the update. Mr. Emmanuel Owusu-Oware, Director, Information Communication Technology (ICT), said the new website was an improvement on features of the old one.

He explained that the objective of the introduction of the new website was to market the university locally and internationally to those interested in the affairs of the university and to prospective applicants who wished to enrol in the institution.

He said the website would be updated regularly to provide up-to-date information of the University to the outside world, with the faculties providing a quarterly report for the site.

According to him, all the faculties, central administration, students, staff and the entire university community were expected to provide the ICT Department with information for the updates. Mr Patrick Kuti of the ICT Department took the gathering through what the previous website was and the face of the new one. He said the new website gave general information about the institution, facilities on the campus, mission statement, detailed information for prospective students, news and event page, staff directory, archives, and student information, among other things. Mr Isaac Kwakwa Sarpong, Acting Vice President of the Student Representative Council (SRC), commended the team who worked on the new website. He appealed to the ICT Department to ensure that the website was updated at least every two days, saying, "the problem with the old one was that it was not updated regularly".