Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Pro-Vice Chancellor in charge of Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Ghana (UG) has highlighted the need to institutionalize gender as a way to promote gender equality, revealing that for the first time, UG recorded a larger number of females (51%) enrolling as first year students. Despite such gains made in higher institutions, the Pro-Vice Chancellor said, more needs to be done.
Prof. Amfo was speaking to more than 30 gender coordinators from higher educational institutions, including 10 from UHAS, at the beginning of a two-day workshop organized by UG’s Center for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA), December 12-14.
The agenda included topics such as “Key gender issues in higher education” (Professor Akosua Darkwah); “Approaches and strategies for addressing key gender issues in higher educational institutions” (Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo); “Sexual offences in Ghana—legal perspective” (Dr. Abdul Baasit Aziz Bamba); and “Gender and development trajectory and related concepts” (Professor Charlotte W. Asante).