By Peter Agengre
The Bolgatanga Technical University has admitted the first batch of postgraduate students for the 2023/2024 academic year.
This is expected to consolidate the vision of the university to run cutting-edge programmes for sustainable national development.
Management started with five MSc programmes in the School of Agriculture and MSc in Procurement, Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
The university is expected to progressively introduce postgraduate programmes in all departments.
At the 22nd matriculation ceremony for one thousand three hundred and seventy-one (1,371) freshmen and women, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Samuel Alnaa, also announced that the university is preparing to introduce PhD programmes starting with the school of agriculture.
“We will progressively introduce postgraduate programmes in all the departments as and when such departments are ready. In furtherance of this, we will soon start preparing the grounds to introduce PhD programmes starting with the School of Agriculture. By this, we will have a one-stop university for all your academic programmes and progression. This will also afford our various faculties, the opportunity to have more hands to do research work, innovations and inventions for their career development. So I urge all and sundry to take advantage of this,” Prof. Alnaa addressed the matriculants.
One thousand and five students, made up of 580 males and 425 females from the total number admitted, have so far reported. This represents a 19% increase over the number reported in the 2022/2023 academic year.
According to Professor Alnaa, the increase in enrolment could be due to the good programmes recently introduced. There is therefore the need to build more lecture halls and office accommodations for both teachers and students.
“The university is currently constrained in terms of limited lecture rooms and office spaces. This has a telling effect on effective delivery of lectures as students constantly compete for space. While management is doing everything possible within their capacity to improvise for students to have lectures comfortably, we also urge government to quickly move in to construct lecture halls for the university,” Professor Alnaa stressed.
