Sunyani Technical University (STU) is to establish more satellite campuses in the Brong Ahafo Region to bring technical and vocational training to the doorstep of the people.
Vice Chancellor of the university, Professor Kwadwo Adinkra Appiah, revealed this during the first graduation of the university where 1,684 students graduated with HND and degrees.
They graduated with Bachelor of Technology in Building Technology and Computerised Accounting and HND in Engineering, Business and Management Studies and Applied Science and Technology.
STU, formerly Sunyani Polytechnic, became a fully-fledged university last year.
Professor Kwadwo Adinkrah Appiah said the university will adopt vocational and technical institutions as well as mentor and prepare students in such institutions to enroll into the university to boost the student population
He further revealed that the university has acquired lands at Duayaw Nkwanta in the Tano North District and Amasu in the Dormaa Municipality for its satellite campuses.
He commended leaders from the two communities for making lands available for the project.
The university don also appealed to GetFUND through the Ministry of Education to honour their certificate “they have brought to them in order to pay a loan they have contracted from a bank to initiate the projects.”
In this regard he called on corporate bodies to come to the aid of the institution to renovate the deplorable students’ hostels.
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