General News of Monday, 30 December 2019Source: ghananewsagency.orgFifty-nine inmates of Nsawam Prisons enrolled onto UCC’s Distant Learning ProgrammeFile photoFifty-nine inmates of the Nsawam Prisons are pursuing various diploma programmes in Business and Education through the University of Cape Coast’s Distance Learning Programme. This novel project, dubbed; “Inmates Tertiary Education Programme” follows a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Ghana Prisons Service and Plan Volta Foundation, to allow long-term serving inmates to enrol onto the University of Cape Coast (UCC’s) Distance Learning Programme of higher education. The ceremony was an official platform to receive and admit students into different programmes under the CoDE, through swearing a matriculation oath. They comprised fresh students from various learning centres in the Western and Central regions who were enrolled for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Of the number, 9, 323 are pursuing various programmes in Education with the remaining 3,767 reading Business related programmes, while 1,181 students were admitted for the postgraduate programmes.

Source: GhanaWeb December 29, 2019 18:00 UTC