Winneba, Oct. 18, GNA - The University of Education, Winneba, has admitted over 2,910 fresh students formally to pursue various programmes in its three campuses.

The campuses are, Winneba, Kumasi and Mampong-Ashanti.

Winneba campus recorded the highest enrolment of 2,133 students made up of 1,363 men and 775 women, while Kumasi and Mampong-Ashanti campuses admitted 590, and 182 fresh students respectively.

In all, 5,899 qualified candidates applied for admission but due to accommodation and other problems facing the University, the authorities were able to admit only 2,910 constituting 49 percent of the number, made up of 1,950 men and 960 women pursuing Bachelor of Education and Masters Degree courses.

These were disclosed by the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor J. Anamuah-Mensah, when he formally admitted some 2,138 first year students into the Winneba campus at a ceremony at Winneba, at the weekend.

Prof. Anamuah-Mensah reiterated the university's commitment to train more qualified teachers to fill the vacuum in the basic and other educational institutions in the country.

He announced that by 2005, the Institution would be able to cater for 10,000 students as far as its distance educational programme is concerned.

Prof. Anamuah-Mensah said Carnegie Corporation of New York, USA, had entered into partnership agreement with the University to expand and strengthen the distance education programme being pursued by the University.

He expressed the hope that the partnership accord would enable the university to reach out to thousands of prospective university students wishing to pursue distance education to achieve their academic goals. Prof. Anamuah-Mensah expressed satisfaction at the role the GETFund was playing in the University's effort at improving infrastructure facilities there, adding that with the assistance of the GETFund the University had been able to construct a new lecturers' hall which is almost completed together with other facilities.

Touching on the perennial water problem, which the school had to grapple with over the years, Prof. Anamuah-Mensah announced with gratitude that water is now flowing ceaselessly at the three campuses in Winneba following the commissioning of the new Winneba Water Works Project.

He said the University was vigorously pursuing its Information and Communication Technology programme, adding that the integration of the communication technology into the teaching programme was vital, not only to propel the University into a premier teaching education institution, but also to fulfil the mission of the university, which aimed at producing competent teachers and educational administrators to help in national development.

Prof. Anamuah-Mensah advised the new students to always comport themselves and respect the regulations governing their training to enable them to achieve the objective for which they were admitted into the university.