Preparing for better aspiration in life concerning our education in relation to its accommodation, student need better attention in order to prevent the construction of strange diseases like air born diseases etc. Central Press had an interview with the S.R.C President on the way forward.
According to the S.R.C. President Acheampong over the years there have not been adequate rooms to accommodate student at the level 100 and continuing student which allow most of them to rent house outside the school hostel and therefore create difficulty in attending lecture and in the process of acquiring knowledge.
In response to this interview, he hint on the hostel not having adequate labourers to work and this delays the hygiene process of the hostel. The President therefore said, during weekends there are not enough food staff on campus .this has affected the learning process of most student because food is an essential element which help develop the brain when in their right proportion and quantity and also man cannot survive or learn without food and study as well. He took this appeal to leaders of the polytechnic
The S.R.C. president concluded by saying the security operations of the polytechnic hostel is of obvious standard and they have no problem with their security system and said he hope the officials would give keen earrings to their problems addressed.
Takoradi Polytechnic was adjudged the best among the ten polytechnics that took part in the 5th USA Rice Polytechnics National Competition in Cape Coast. Takoradi Polytechnic was adjudged the best presentation and innovative. Kumasi Polytechnic had the second position and Temale polytechnic had the third position. Cape Coast Polytechnic who was the defending champion had the fourth position.
The Deuty Minister for Tourism and Creative Art Gifa Gomashie has appealed to polytechnic graduates to create jobs rather to seek jobs since they are trained to acquire the needed skill.
In an interview conducted with some of the students they revealed that seeking credit from the commercial bank poses some challenges due to the high interest rate that are charged on loans. They also noted that if their friends or relative see them engaging in their small businesses they refer to them that they have wasted their family resources in educating them in the tertiary institution.
The Cape Coast polytechnic SRC women’s commissioner, Miss Helena Owusu, in an interview said the program schedule for the women in the semester will be exuberant and that will lease the women feel lively on campus as she promised. She said there will be many activities which will be organized.
First, there will be leadership training for the women and to educate them on the leadership skills to enable them to come up for students’ governance and other related activities. And she said resource personnel will be invited particularly to educate the women and to encourage them to know what they can perfectly do which will be held at coast Polytechnic main auditorium on Friday 25th of October 2013 and this is going to be specifically for the class reps, various denominational, associational and departmental women’s commissioners.
Again, there will be inter-schools “it takes two”, as she promised to set a strong cordial relationship between the schools. She said, is a purposely for bringing the three schools together for them to know each other, which will be done by the each school representative and this is going to take place at the cape-coast polytechnic borsah square on the 16th of October 2013. And this will aid to entertain student and to establish relationship among them. She said as education in C.poly is not all about books, quizzes and examination but entertainments are also part of the entire academic calendar, any associations, clubs who will be actively involved will get the chance also to promote their clubs and for them to know each other.
Moreover, she said there will be a women’s day for the akwaaba week celebration. A day has been schedule for the women on November 6th, 2013 at the borsah square and her objective is to help women overcome challenges on campus. Speaking to us she said it is a time that the individual student who get involved to have the opportunity to unwind and reflect on cultural and social values on campus. The guest speaker will be Mrs. Magdalene Abakah the former Dean of the school of business who would assist the women in solving problems facing them in today’s world, on the topic “Challenges of Tertiary Education”. This is due to the fact that, campus’ life today has become very challenging. This program will enable them to understand and to fit in any situation they will find themselves.
Miss Helena Finally gave an assurance that she is not going to let the women down; she will be there to assist them and also work hard as she has promised.
In a research, a report came on a notice that most of the students of cape coast polytechnic do dress in a shabbily way. This prompted campus journalist association to research on why some students dress informal on campus.
Miss Diana, In the interview with some students on campus expressed themselves on how campus dressing is and why some do dress that way, a student from sec and management studiessaid, campus dressing seem to be normal and does not see anything wrong with wearing shot dresses. According to her she said, she feel okay and smart when she puts on shot dress, she continue to say her dressing does not necessary means she is a bad girl but feel comfortable and good when she is in that wear and also she said, where the person coming from also exposes the person to that. Some students also express their view that wearing shot make you look sharp and cute more than wearing long dresses, they continue that, the occasion also tells the type of dress you will wear so they cannot just wear any dress to campus.
Some guys also showed their interest by saying, some ladies expose themselves because of attraction, they want to just get attractedto the guys, but some also said, seeing that of the ladies in short dresses and showing their Brest lease them to look nice and attractive to them. Some ladies also said, they want to create attention and awareness to know some guys that they are beautiful.
Pascaline from sec. and management studies department also said she feel very impressive and good about campus dressing as compare to T. Poly, Sunyani and Legon theirs are very bad but C. poly here, the way they dress are good especially sec and management department according to her, she said they have standardize way of dressing and if one go contra to the rules the person will be sack from the class and she add that, the HOD of the department Mr. Cujdor always in the watch of their formal dressings. She continues that seeing some of her colleques with short dresses makes her feel bad also because they copy blindly from the white. Some of the students also said, some lecturers do not entertain ladies who wear short and showing of their Brest and guys who also a pull down their shot. According to one guy from accountancy department said lecturers like Mr.Attom and Mr. Aggrey Fynn see to it that students dress formal to their class.
More on, some guys also said to CJA that when they pull down their shots, they feel happy within them. CJA asked them how they feel when they pull down their shorts. Some said, they feel on top and also feel good when they pull down their dress.
Finally, in the view of how students should dress properly on campus, Miss Diana and Mr. Boadu proceed to the fashion department to have an interview with a fashion Research Assistant Ms Nicolet Hammond, according to her, “proper dressing is very important as a individual” she said, there are several dress for several occasion there are some dresses which we wear to wedding and also some as casual wear, the occasion determined its self. She added that students who dress shabbily must dress properly and decent since they are under training to become future leaders. In her speech she said, one must dress to cover the inner garment and not the other way round she said, some students do dress that way because they think they are following fashion. Ms Hammond said appearance talk more about us therefore students must be careful they way they dress and the life style they portray on campus. She continues that, Africans have taken the white man’s culture and which is killing us not to follow our own culture today. She ends that we should move by our culture and not current fashion.
In our research about students lifestyle on campus in dressing, through interview help us to know that some students were brought up like that, they had grown to see people around them dress that way and others too also copy from their friends when they come to campus.
