GIJ Alumni donates to School

Accra, Feb. 05, GNA - The 1995 Year Group of the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) has donated two projectors valued at GH₵6,000.00 to the Institute as part of their contribution towards quality learning and teaching in the university.

Presenting the items on behalf of the year group, the President of the 95 Alumni, Mrs Felicia Agyeman-Duah, said GIJ had contributed to their successes on the job market hence the donation to express their gratitude.

'Being in the month of love, it is in order that we show our love to the school,' she said.

Dr Wilberforce Sefakor Dzisah, the Rector of the Institute, who received the items on behalf of the School, expressed gratitude to the group for the donation and pledged to use it judiciously to the benefit of the students.

Dr Dzisah noted that all the citadels of learning, including Harvard, Oxford, the University of Ghana, University of Cape Coast and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Technology, had their progressive development undertaken and sustained by their own products.

According to the Rector, the four-storey lecture hall, theatre and office complex at the new site of the university had been roofed, therefore, after the furnishing, it would be used alongside the facilities on the old campus.

He said one of the greatest constraints of student was the lack of hostel facilities, and explained that there were plans to build a hostel at the new site to house students towards promoting a conducive learning atmosphere.

Dr Dzisah said the Institute would expand the undergraduate degree programmes by introducing new programmes, which would cover the Communication area and also complement Public Relations and Journalism, to equip students to become a global brand.

He said the institute had introduced four Masters' programmes; in Development Communication, Public Relations, Journalism and Media Management; to train and build a core of communication practitioners locally to enable them to understand the national culture and its dynamics rather than relying on foreign culture to communicate effectively.

He, therefore, encouraged Alumni to patronise the programmes instead of paying too much money to study abroad.

He urged all the year groups to assist in imparting knowledge to the students with their industry experience as a way of helping the school to develop.

GNA