Dean of the School of Physical Sciences at the University of Cape coast Professor Emmanuel Essel has emphasized that motivating students while in school helps them give off their best and aim at achieving higher feats.
He says this, is a way to encourage good behaviour, and inculcate a healthy competitive spirit among the students.
At an award ceremony on March 30 2022 at the University of Cape Coast by the School of Physical Sciences to honour 149 students of the school who have excelled in their academic pursuits, he said “it always an occasion of joy when once in a year, students and faculty members meet to enjoy the various achievements chalked.”
Those who received awards at the school’s 2022 edition of the annual award ceremony included 69 second-year students, 46 third-year students and 34 final year students.
The awards ceremony was instituted to encourage good behaviour, motivate students to give off their best academically and inculcate competitive spirit. It also affords faculty and students the opportunity to meet once a year to celebrate their achievements.
Professor Essel emphasized that the school believes that good education plays a crucial role in building a bright future for the students.
“We are committed to providing a serene atmosphere to our students where each student can imbibe good behaviour and learn new things every day,” he said.
The dean further hinted that the school provides equal opportunities for students to realize their true potential and get ready to face the outside world.
“Whether you are small or big, anytime you want any help from any lecturer or the dean, we are always prepared to assist just to make sure that the future of our students is bright,” he intimated.
He further hinted that the school wants to continue the Dean’s Award programme due to its purpose of improving the academic and social lives of the students being fulfilled.
While commending the awardees, the Provost of the College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences at the University of Cape Coast, Professor Moses Jojo Eghan stressed that hard work and academic counselling are part of what one needs to achieve such academic life.
“I am glad we had more females in the group this year and that shows that our females are doing well in the sciences,” he noted
He, therefore, called on female students to further their education in the physical sciences field to pursue it at the postgraduate level.
According to him, in the post-graduate field, very little apply and hopes that about 40 percent of females who graduate from the undergraduate level will take the challenge of furthering their passion for the sciences.
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Source: Rosemond Asmah/ATLFMNEWS
