UG cuts sod for PhD apartment construction.
Teacher Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, Vice Chancellor, University of Ghana - Legon, on Wednesday cut the grass for the beginning of work on a Doctorate in Philosophy (PhD) condo for the University.
She said the development of the condo would address the foundation deficiency of the University and "in accordance with the University's vision to accomplish a top notch status."
The primary period of the venture, which includes the development of a 60-room loft out of the 240-condo office, will cost GH₵ 9 million and expected to be finished in 14 months.
The 60-room condo will comprise of 20 rooms on each floor in a two-story building, including a kitchenette, little sitting region, a room, and a washroom.
The Vice Chancellor said the venture would be an amazing chance to concede more PhD understudies, support the preparation and produce basic scholars, who might give potential open doors prepared to proffer answers for existing difficulties.
"To draw in more PhD up-and-comers, we must zero in on expanding the supply of private offices on our grounds subsequently offering our understudies a chance to concentrate on in a suitable climate," she said.
Prof Amfo said the School would guarantee that it consolidated new advancements in the bid to establish a scholarly environment that upheld its vision of turning into an exploration escalated college in the following couple of years.
She said resulting periods of the task would make arrangement for childcare and other orientation based conveniences befitting the necessities of the 21st century PhD understudy.
Prof. Yaa Ntiamoa-Baidu, Project Lead for the PhD condo project, said the focal point of convenience shortage nearby throughout the long term fixated on undergrad school, with little focus on the master's level college.
She said, in the mean time, one of the challenges PhD understudies looked in finishing their last postulation had to do with their convenience.
Prof. Ntiamoa-Baidu said convenience shortage for PhDs was found during a consultative gathering among other squeezing needs, including cash to pay expenses, and to subsidize theory examination and space for graduate understudies to study, particularly for parttime PhD understudies.
"In 2017, the UG Doctoral Building, an office devoted exclusively for PhD understudies was finished and dispatched. In this way, PhD understudies could never again grumble that they have no place to sit and realize when they are nearby."
Prof. Ntiamoa-Baidu said having done that, the time had come to set out on a venture to tackle the convenience hardships of PhD understudies nearby.
She added that the undertaking was critical throughout the entire existence of the University, as need might have arisen to guarantee quality schooling in existing and new colleges the nation over.
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