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16th August, 2011
Involve Yourselves In Out-Of-Classroom Activities - Students Advised
Tertiary institutions have been urged to add as part of their courses community responsible and out-of-the-classroom activities that will prepare students as they enter the job market.
This is expected to fortify them, offer them an opportunity to be socially responsible to their communities and the country for that matter, and give make them appreciative of the situations they find themselves in.
“Nations have chalked successes not only because the citizenry have been engaged in normal things but because their citizens did the extraordinary through sacrificial communal activities,” Rev. Tetteh Djangmah, Head of Community Service at the Central University said in an interview with The Spectator.
Rev. Djangmah said this initiative was carved out of the regular study calendar of students because it had been realized that many students fail to recognize that their contribution to nation building during long vacations go beyond their normal classroom activities.
“If students are encouraged to set aside an appreciable time during their vacations to help deprived institutions with some needed assistance, then they will avoid laziness and the temptations of idleness,” he added.
He said international students take advantage of their long vacations to visit remote areas of the world and help with humanitarian activities such as teaching to build on their relationships with people and more importantly to develop their Curriculum Vitae’s (CV’s).
It is against this backdrop that in line with the vision of nurturing transformational leaders and a necessary requirement for completion of courses that the University has embarked on a month-long Community Service Programme (CSO) for students designed at instilling in them the spirit of volunteerism.
Students are assigned to institutions such as Basic Schools, Hospitals, Orphanages, Corporate Institutions as well as Churches in places like Dawhenya, Miotso, Prampram Tema among other areas within the region.
The programme is divided into five modules namely Home Tutoring, School Teaching, Individual Mentoring, Student Initiative Project and Evangelistic/Health Outreach.
Salient among them include Home Tutoring where students play voluntary roles as teachers to children in homes where their parents have a difficulty in hiring the services of studies teachers.
The School Teaching Programme brings together students who provide supportive roles by teaching, invigilating, marking of register and exams scripts, administrative and other social duties in deprived schools where teachers were lacking and the few ones had been overstretched with duties.
Also, students share motivational talks with their younger ones in schools so that they stay focused and determined to face the challenges ahead of them in life in what is called the Individual Mentoring programme.
However, the programme Rev Tetteh Djangmah says has not been without challenges.
“After having communicated with corporate organizations to come on board with sponsorships to facilitate the programme, responses are yet to come on board.”
The programme usually takes place from June until the early parts of August and has over two years had about 4000 students participating.
This is expected to fortify them, offer them an opportunity to be socially responsible to their communities and the country for that matter, and give make them appreciative of the situations they find themselves in.
“Nations have chalked successes not only because the citizenry have been engaged in normal things but because their citizens did the extraordinary through sacrificial communal activities,” Rev. Tetteh Djangmah, Head of Community Service at the Central University said in an interview with The Spectator.
Rev. Djangmah said this initiative was carved out of the regular study calendar of students because it had been realized that many students fail to recognize that their contribution to nation building during long vacations go beyond their normal classroom activities.
“If students are encouraged to set aside an appreciable time during their vacations to help deprived institutions with some needed assistance, then they will avoid laziness and the temptations of idleness,” he added.
He said international students take advantage of their long vacations to visit remote areas of the world and help with humanitarian activities such as teaching to build on their relationships with people and more importantly to develop their Curriculum Vitae’s (CV’s).
It is against this backdrop that in line with the vision of nurturing transformational leaders and a necessary requirement for completion of courses that the University has embarked on a month-long Community Service Programme (CSO) for students designed at instilling in them the spirit of volunteerism.
Students are assigned to institutions such as Basic Schools, Hospitals, Orphanages, Corporate Institutions as well as Churches in places like Dawhenya, Miotso, Prampram Tema among other areas within the region.
The programme is divided into five modules namely Home Tutoring, School Teaching, Individual Mentoring, Student Initiative Project and Evangelistic/Health Outreach.
Salient among them include Home Tutoring where students play voluntary roles as teachers to children in homes where their parents have a difficulty in hiring the services of studies teachers.
The School Teaching Programme brings together students who provide supportive roles by teaching, invigilating, marking of register and exams scripts, administrative and other social duties in deprived schools where teachers were lacking and the few ones had been overstretched with duties.
Also, students share motivational talks with their younger ones in schools so that they stay focused and determined to face the challenges ahead of them in life in what is called the Individual Mentoring programme.
However, the programme Rev Tetteh Djangmah says has not been without challenges.
“After having communicated with corporate organizations to come on board with sponsorships to facilitate the programme, responses are yet to come on board.”
The programme usually takes place from June until the early parts of August and has over two years had about 4000 students participating.
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