Anglican University College of Technology inaugurated

The Nkoranza Campus of the Anglican University College of Technology (ANGUTEC) was on Friday inaugurated at Nkoranza in the Brong-Ahafo Region.

Affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), the University offers four-year programmes in BSc. General Agriculture, BSc. Agriculture Engineering and Mechanisation, and BSc. Soil Science and Water Engineering.

It has Schools of Agriculture and Bio-resources engineering, Food and Health Sciences as well as School of Social Science.

Professor Kwasi Nsiah-Gyabaah, Vice President of ANGUTEC, said the people of Nkoranza and the entire country as a whole would benefit immensely as the University grows.

This, he explained, was because it represented one of the bold and visionary attempts to start a tertiary institution that focused on science and technology, a journey that many private and public universities fear to tread.

Prof Nsiah-Gyabaah said the University is positioned to make a great impact and contribution in agriculture, regional and national development noting that at a time Ghana is bedeviled with graduate unemployment, it would create entrepreneurs rather than employees and graduates with exciting careers.

The University’s Vice President said it had already developed extensive networks and collaboration with other universities and research institutions in Ghana and abroad and was optimistic that it would be the driving force in stimulating science and technology education and innovations for accelerated national development.

Prof Nsiah-Gyabaah appealed to the government and corporate institutions to assist the University to enable it make meaningful impact in the educational system.

The Most Reverend Dr Daniel Yinkah Sarfo, Archbishop, Internal Province of Ghana of the Anglican Church, noted that science and technology education was a capital intensive venture and appealed to Government to allow private universities to benefit from some of the facilities that the National and public universities enjoyed.

He expressed gratitude to Okatakyie Agyeman Kodom IV, Omanhene of Nkoranza Traditional Council for donating four square miles of land for the establishment of the University.

Mt Rev Dr Sarfo also commended Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene who was represented by Nana Adu Gyamfi, Adontenhene of Asanteman, for providing 200 acres of land to the ANGUTEC satellite campus at Ofoase Kokoben in the Ashanti Region.

A fund raising rally yielded almost GH¢100,000 in support of the University.