Ghana Telecom University College

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Ghana Telecom University College
Established:	2005
Type:	Public
Principal:	Dr. Osei Darkwa
Undergraduates:	350[1]
Location:	Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Campus:	urban
Website:	www.gtuc.edu.gh

Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC) is an accredited university founded in 2005 by Ghana Telecom, the national telecommunications company.

The university was established to provide graduate programs and degree/diploma programs particularly in telecommunications engineering and information and communications technologies. It also offers certificate programs, with courses that count toward a bachelor's degree. GTUC's campus is located in the Tesano section of Accra, Republic of Ghana. Enrolment for Fall 2006, the first in which degree courses will be offered, is expected to be about 350 students.^[1]

Contents 1 University Council 2 President 3 Contacts 4 See also 5 Notes

[edit] University Council

Ghana Telecom University College is guided by a University Council whose members are:

• Dr. Benjamin Aggrey Ntim, Minister of Communication of the Republic of Ghana, Chairman
• Justice Sophia A.B. Akuffo, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ghana
• Professor F.K.A. Allotey, Professor in Mathematical Physics
• Mr. Edmund Annan, marketing consultant, KCBC, Accra
• Professor Christine Kissiedu, Former Head of Library and Information Sciences, University of Ghana
• Mrs. Margaret Mwanakatwe, Managing Director, [[Barclays Bank]
• Professor Knud Erik Skouby, Director, Technological University of Denmark-Center for Information and Communication Technologies

[edit] President

GTUC's President is Dr. Osei Darkwa (odarkwa@gtuc.edu.gh), who was educated in Ghana and Norway and earned his Ph.D. at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Dr. Darkwa taught for 11 years at the University of Illinois at Chicago, before returning to Ghana to work on the development of strategies and plans for expanding education for ICTs, which figure prominently in Ghana's future in the global economy.

[edit] Contacts

GTUC's web site is http://www.gtuc.edu.gh. Its postal mail address is PMB Tesano-Accra, Ghana. Phone number, 021-226766.

GTUC has an office of external affairs in the U.S. Its director is Dr. Steve Eskow (drseskow@gtuc.edu.gh; 805-692-6998).

[edit] See also

• List of universities in Ghana
• Ghana

[edit] Notes

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