GOVT SUPPORTS UDS WITH GH¢20M (PAGE 11, OCT 30)

THE Government is to allocate GH¢20 million to the University for Development Studies (UDS) as a seed money towards its delvelopment.
The amount is to be released from the newly established President Endowment Fund Initiative.
The Pro Vice Chancellor of the UDS, Prof. David Milliar, who announced this, explained that GH¢2million would be disbursed to the university on a yearly basis within the next 10 years.
He expressed appreciation to the President and the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GET Fund) for their support to the fledgling university.
Prof. Millar was addressig the 17th matriculatin ceremony of the Wa campus of the UDS in Wa, in the Upper West Region.
"With this gesture, we are hopeful that the pledge by the GETFund to construct a 1,000-bed student hostel at the Tamale campus would soon be fulfilled," Prof. Milliar noted.
Touching on admissions, the acting vice chancellor said out of the over 12,450 applications received for various programmes this year, only about 10,000 applicants qualified for admission to pursue the various degree programmes.
He said that the university was able to offer admissions to 8,743 of the applicants, representing 80 per cent of the qualified applicants.
"Another 847 applicants were offered admission to pursue diploma programmes. This brings the total number of students offered admissions this academic year to 9, 696", he stated, pointing out that the current population of the university stood at 14,800.
Prof. Milliar said a lot of factors were taken into consideration, and these include giving opportunity to more female students as well as students from deprived communities.