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of the University, with Nana Kobina Nketsia IV,Omanhene of Essikado, as the [Interim] ViceChancellor.• The Institute of African Studies is establishedto conduct fundamental research in areas ofAfrican Languages, history and culture and torun interdisciplinary courses leading to MPhiland PhD degrees in African Studies.1962• The School of Performing Arts is establishedas the School of Music and Drama under theInstitute of African Studies. It comprises theDepartment of Dance Studies, the Departmentof Music and the Department of Theatre Arts.1964• The Ghana Medical School is established bycommand of Government under the Ministry ofHealth as an autonomous institution in a specialrelationship with the University of Ghana.Arrangements are finalised in 1969 to integratethe Medical School formally into the Universityof Ghana. It is named the University of GhanaMedical School.1966• The Institute of Statistical, Social and EconomicResearch [ISSER] is established as the Instituteof Statistics. In addition to its original concernwith problems related to statistics, the Instituteis later to expand into the field of social andeconomic studies; offering Certificate andDiploma courses in Statistics as well as a Masterof Arts degree in Development Studies.1972• The Regional Institute for Population isestablished jointly by the United NationsOrganisation and the Government of Ghana topromote and strengthen research and trainingin demography for students from Englishspeaking countries in Africa.1973• The School of Communication Studies isestablished as the Institute of Journalismand Mass Communication to provide futurejournalists and media practitioners with thetheoretical understanding and the professionalskills and techniques required in the massmedia.1979• The Noguchi Memorial Institute for MedicalResearch is established in a building fundedby the Government of Japan to serve as amonument in memory of Dr. Hideyo Noguchi,a Japanese medical scientist who died in Accrain May, 1928 whiles investigating yellow fever.The Institute is to provide a base for medical cooperationprogrammes between Ghanaian andJapanese scientists and a centre for conducting21 University of Ghana
medical research relevant to Ghana’s needs.1994• The School of Public Health is establishedthrough collaboration between the Ministry ofHealth in Ghana and the University of Ghana.It is tasked to primarily train public healthworkers to enable them perform effectively atDistrict, Regional and National levels withingovernmental, quasi-governmental, nongovernmentaland private organisations.1995• The University of Ghana Dental School isestablished, even though basic dental trainingof dentists locally had been in place for as farback as 1972.1997• The Valco Trust Hostel, a block of purpose-built,self contained flats for 190 students is donatedto the University by the Valco Trust Fund to easepressure on student accommodation. The ValcoTrust Hostel is the University’s first hostel forgraduate students.1998• The University inaugurates Jubilee Hall tocommemorate the University’s Golden Jubilee.Modelled after Akuafo Hall, one of the traditionalHalls of the University, and funded mainly byalumni of the University, the Hall is a group of4 (four) multi-purpose blocks containing singlestudy bedrooms, self-contained flats and doublerooms.1999• The Academic Board and the University Councilapproves a proposal initiated by Ghana’sMinistry of Health in 1998 for the establishmentof a School of Allied Health Sciences.www.ug.edu.gh 22
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