(humanities): 2009 - 2011 - University of Ghana

Corporate Accountants (ACCA), The Chartered Institute of Secretaries (CIS), The Corporation
of Certified Secretaries (CCS), The Clerical Examinations for Local Government Officers
(NALGO) and Institute of Hospital Administration. Though useful, the courses were not fully
satisfactory because they were foreign oriented, dealing mainly in United Kingdom institutions
and were not properly adapted to experience and practice in Ghana. It was, therefore decided in
1961 to reshape them and make them more relevant to national needs. In order to give the study
of Administration its proper place in the country‘s higher education system, and to attract the
best candidates, it was decided that courses run by the College should be at University level. It
was thus agreed that the College of Administration should be associated with the University of
Ghana and its main courses developed to the University‘s degree standard. Hence in October
1962, the College of Administration was integrated into the University of Ghana. The College
was given a status comparable to that of a faculty in the University and was redesignated School
of Administration. Its students were gradually moved from Achimota to the University‘s
students‘ Halls of Residence at Legon, and on February 18, 1967, the new building of the
School, centrally situated at Legon, was opened. In 2004, the name was once again changed to
the Business School. The School is governed by the Statutes of the University and controlled by
the University Council and the Academic Board. It does, however, continue to receive
earmarked grants direct from Government, and within the framework of general University-wide
policy, maintains a good degree of freedom to develop its own associations and schemes. It has a
mandate to organize courses and seminars from time to time either on its own or in association
with other bodies, to satisfy identified areas of need in the fields of Business and Public
Administration.
THE MEDICAL SCHOOL: established in 1964 by command of government under the
Ministry of Health as an autonomous institution in special relationship with the University of
Ghana. The primary objectives of the Ghana Medical School (as it was then known) was to train:
i. A broad-based generalist practitioner with sufficient grounding for subsequent
specialization.
ii. a practitioner functionally attuned to and therefore responding aptly to the needs and
exigencies of his/her environment. He/she shall attain internationally accepted standard.
iii. a practitioner who has participated in health care delivery while under instruction and
therefore cognisant of the problems of delivery of health care in the rural/urban settings.
iv. an individual who accepts responsibility for self-learning and therefore readily responsible
to the call for continuing medical education; and
v. an advocate for community health needs.
Arrangements to integrate the medical school formally into the University of Ghana were
concluded in 1969 in time to permit the award of the degrees of Bachelor of Medicine and
Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB) of the University of Ghana (Legon) to the first class of 39
medical graduates to be trained in Ghana. The Ghana Medical School thus became the
University of Ghana Medical School in October 1969. However, it still retains its financial
autonomy and has its own Executive Council and School Board. These arrangements have been
given legal backing under the provisions of Schedule D of the Statutes of the University. The
curriculum of the School has been revised on three occasions (1972, 1980 and 1991) to further
enhance the training of doctors. Currently, the curriculum allows for courses leading to the
award of a BSc degree in Medical Science in addition to the MB ChB professional degree. The
Medical School is the largest single faculty of the university, presently.
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