Cape Coast, June 6, GNA - Authorities of University of Cape Coast (UCC) admitted 1,320 students for its sandwich programme this year. They are made up of 941 post-graduate students and 379 under-graduate students who would undertake courses in education, social sciences, business studies and physical sciences. The post-graduate students are 634 men and 307 women while the under-graduate students are 233 men and 146 women. Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Vice Chancellor of UCC announced this at the matriculation for 2008/2009 sandwich students at cape Coast on Friday.

She said notwithstanding the intensiveness of sandwich programmes the authorities would not compromise on quality. Prof. Opoku-Agyemang said under the programmes access to the university had been made more visible to society and an avenue for most workers whose work schedule would not permit them to undertake studies as regular students. She warned that the authorities considered discipline as the bedrock of academic excellence and to withstand the test of time in their endeavours.

"The purpose of university education is to make you a holistic individual, a person who can reason and differentiate good from bad; person with analytical mind to examine issues critically and offer or choose the best rational alternatives," she said. Prof. Opoku-Agyemang advised the students to make judicious use of the opportunity offered and endeavour to critically study the "students hand book" to become acquainted with the rules which regulate their behaviour towards authority, fellow students and the conduct of examinations.