General News of Saturday, 18 January 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.com59 inmates of Nsawam prison matriculated into UCCThe entrants will have the chance to pursue their education while serving their sentenceAn initiative by the University of Cape Coast to encourage education in the country’s prisons has seen some 59 inmates benefitting. The University opened a prison campus inside the Nsawam prisons to help inmates qualified for diploma courses to also enroll and 59 of these persons have been welcomed already for the course in 2020. At the event, Vice-Chancellor of UCC, Dr Joseph Ampiah swore in the fresh batch of students with an oath of allegiance. “This is the first time in this country tertiary education has been taken to the doorstep of prison inmates” he stated. Last year, 59 prisoners were enrolled to pursue various diploma courses in Business and Education through the school’s Distance Learning Programme.

Source: GhanaWeb January 18, 2020 15:22 UTC