The Cape Coast Technical University (CCTU) has officially enrolled its first post-graduate students in Construction Technology in a colourful matriculation ceremony.

The ceremony witnessed twenty-nine (29) students admitted into the institution's post-graduate programmes.

CCTU as an academic institution, started off as Ghana Education Service (GES) supervised school, before transforming to offer its first diploma awards in 1992, then proceeded to award degrees to now offer post-graduate programmes.

These programmes include, Master of Technology programmes in Construction Technology and Management in Civil Engineering.

The two-year programme will see matriculants taken through one-year taught course and the other year dedicated for research.

Meanwhile, the university's first batch of post-graduate students in Civil Engineering will be due for graduation in November this year.

Prof. Kwaku Adutwum Ayim Boakye, Vice-Chancellor for CCTU speaking at the event recounted the momentous occasion to be a testament to the upward trajectory of growth as an institution and advancement in the fields of Construction Technology and Management in Civil Engineering.

He encouraged matriculants to embrace every opportunity for growth to challenge themselves to new heights and never lose sight for their goals and aspirations as they embark on the journey of higher learning.

Dean for the School of Graduate Studies of Cape Coast Technical University, Prof. Kwamina Bamfo-Agyei in an engagement with the media relayed CCTU to offer programmes which equip graduands to be more marketable in terms of creating their own jobs with focus on solving the unemployment problem in Ghana.

Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan