(humanities): 2009 - 2011 - University of Ghana

which is intended to test intellectual capability and promise rather than knowledge of
particular subject.
The External Degree Centre offered courses leading to the BA and BSc (Administration)
degrees. The syllabuses and other requirements for the degrees are the same as those used by the
University of Ghana for full-time students except that study at the Centre is part-time/off-campus
and duration extends over a period of not less than eight semesters and not exceeding 12
semesters.
The External Degree programme was originally conceived as a university programme in which
all departments in the Faculties of Arts, Social Studies, Law and Administration would
participate. The courses offered at the Degree Centre are taught by lecturers from the faculties of
the University who are recruited through their Heads of Department. This arrangement was
adopted to ensure that lecturers who teach the courses on campus are the same lecturers who
teach at the External Degree Centre. Part-time students at the External Degree Centre were,
therefore, not to be disadvantaged vis-à-vis their full-time colleagues since both groups of
students wrote the same examination. The arrangement thus guaranteed parity of esteem
between the on-campus and off-campus programmes.
In 2002, the Academic Board of the University approved an arrangement to transform the
External Degree Centre into the Accra City Campus of the University of Ghana, to offer parttime
degree programmes in Bachelor of Arts (BA) and Bachelor of Science in Administration
(BSc Admin). Admission is on fee-paying basis and students are free to subscribe to
programmes/subjects of their choice. Time-tabling is made flexible so as to accommodate the
needs of workers. Entry requirements remain the same as for admission to the main University.
CENTRES OF RESEARCH/LEARNING
REGIONAL TRAINING CENTRE FOR ARCHIVISTS: Since 1974, the University has
hosted the Centre within the Department of Library and Archival Studies. It offers a sub-degree
Diploma course in Archives Administration for anglophone countries in Africa as well as a
Graduate programme in Archival Studies. In the 2000-2001 academic year, a Bachelor ‗s degree
programme in Library, Archives and Information Studies was added to its range of academic
programmes. The Department of Library and Archival Studies has assumed a new name: The
Department of Information Studies, a move aimed at bringing the name of the department to fall
in line with the new focus of its work.
LANGUAGE CENTRE: The Language Centre was founded in 1970 as a Centre for research in
Language use in Ghana, having the status of a department in the Faculty of Arts. For the first ten
years of its existence, it was supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which funded
the building it occupies. It later received Ford Foundation support, especially for staff
development. The British Council supplied its Language Laboratory in 1980 and has provided
small sums at various times. The focus of the Centre is on research and teaching related to the
improvement of performance in the languages used in Ghana as vectors of education, culture and
community interaction - English, the official language, and various Ghanaian languages.
CENTRE FOR TROPICAL CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS:
The Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics was established in the University
of Ghana Medical School in 1982 with a grant from the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special
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