UEW gender centre urged to ensure female participation in
programmes
Winneba (C/R), April 6, Ghanadot/GNA - Professor Akwasi
Asabere-Ameyaw, Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Education, Winneba (UEW), has urged the gender centre of the
university to ensure significant female staff participation
in all programmes of the tertiary institution.
He said management was prepared to provide the necessary
support for the centre to enable it to help raise the
standards of female senior members of the university.
Prof. Asabere-Ameyaw, who was speaking at the first gender
mini-conference of the university in Winneba, said all staff
of the educational institution would be given fair and equal
opportunity to develop.
The event was organised by the university and sponsored by
the Carnegie Corporation of New York on the theme,
‘supporting the professional growth of female senior members
of the university”.
Prof. Asabere-Ameyaw explained that the conference sought to
provide the participants with a platform to disseminate
information on their research activities to the university
community.
He said the university had provided additional temporary
offices at its central campus, to mainstream gender issues,
and plans were far advanced to upgrade the centre into a
directorate.
Prof. Asabere-Ameyaw said support from Carnegie Corporation
for innovative programmes of the UEW was underway and the
tertiary institution would make sure that significant
proportion of grants was allocated for activities requiring
funding.
He said Carnegie Corporation assisted the university to
initiate a mentoring scheme for its female senior members in
2007 to help them to sharpen their research skills.
Prof. Asabere-Ameyaw said over 47 female senior members had
performed their duties creditably since the inception of the
programme.
Mr. C. Akwaa Mensah, registrar of the university, expressed
hope that the event would afford participants the
opportunity to improve upon their academic work.
GNA
