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The visiting Vice President of AMATROL Inc. of the US, Mr Jim Steele and his wife Patty, took time off their busy schedule visit a fashion exhibition put up by students of Kumasi Polytechnic.
Jim and Patty Steele toured the New Great Hall exhibition centre, visiting all the various stands which showcased impressive fashion design works by students of the Department of Fashion Design and Textile Studies, Faculty of Creative Arts and Technology.
Jim, in an interview...
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A consignment of books valued at about US $6000 has been donated to the Kumasi Polytechnic.
Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) in the US, which is currently collaborating with the Kumasi Polytechnic to run joint programmes, made the donation.
The books, 100 titles in all and covering titles in Business and Accountancy subjects, were donated primarily for the benefit of the Faculty of Business and Management Studies of the Polytechnic.
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Jim Steele, the Vice President of AMATROL Inc., a US based company supplying K-Poly with learning systems and training has paid a two-day visit to the institution to prepare the grounds for a technology transfer and instructor training programme.
Mr Jim Steele, who is VP in charge of Curriculum Development of AMATROL Inc., arrived on Thursday April 26th and held meetings with the Chairman of the Polytechnic Council, Alhaji Salifu Seidu, some council members.
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A tenancy agreement regularizing the stay of Zenith Bank on the premises of Kumasi Polytechnic has been formally signed by representatives of the two entities at a short ceremony.
Professor Nicholas Nsowah-Nuamah, Rector signed for the Polytechnic while Mr. James Wiafe Akenten, the Zonal Manager for Kumasi signed on behalf of the Managing Director of Zenith Bank Mr. Daniel Asiedu.
In his brief remarks, the Rector pledged to maintain a congenial environment for the Bank to operate...
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Application for Admissions to the 2012/2013 Academic Year is now opened. Forms can be obtained from all UBA branches, the Technical Examination Unit (Accra) and other Polytechnics nationwide. Visit http://kpoly.edu.gh/admission/application/forms/instructions
Relief was the one word that was on the lips of management, staff, students and even graduands as the much anticipated 7th Congregation of Kumasi Polytechnic passed off peacefully last December without any hitch. What is even surprising is the praise being heaped on organizers of the congregation for the meticulous planning and execution of the programme which has won the admiration of many skeptics.
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The Kumasi Polytechnic has signed a joint venture agreement with SongTech Company Limited of China which will pave the way for the two partners to set up an US$11 million plant to assemble electrical and electronic equipment. Under the agreement, K-Poly and SongTech are to set up the K-PST Electronics Company Limited, an entity that will oversee the assembly of the K-PST brand of laptops, desktop computers, mobile phones and television sets for the Ghanaian...
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The SIC Financial Services Limited, the brokerage and investment arm of the State Insurance Company has won the bid to manage the Provident Fund of Kumasi Polytechnic which is currently valued at about GH₵500,000 (five billion old Ghana Cedi). An agreement to that effect has been signed between the two entities at the Polytechnic’s premises in Kumasi.
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The Kumasi Polytechnic, on Tuesday 15th November, 2011 formally out-doored three new faculties at the institution’s 19th Matriculation ceremony. The new faculties are the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Built and Natural Environment and the Faculty of Creative Art and Technology. This brings the number of faculties and institutes at the Polytechnic to seven.
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The Kumasi Polytechnic chapter of the Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) has elected new executives to run the affairs of the association for the next two years. Mr. Edmond Oppong Peprah, a Lecturer at the Entrepreneurship and Finance Department was elected the new Chairman of the most powerful association on the Kumasi Polytechnic campus for a two-year tenure. He replaces Mr. Solomon Abu Frimpong, whose four year tenure has come to an...
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The Kumasi Polytechnic is collaborating with the Yangtze University of China to start a six-year medicine programme with effect from January 2012. According to the Rector of K-Poly, Professor Nicholas Nsowah Nuamah, the aim of the programme is to train more medical students to augment the numbers of doctors and medical practitioners in Ghana, with the view to improving the abysmal doctor - patient ratio.
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The Kumasi Polytechnic yesterday bid farewell to Professor Joseph Lawrence Aruna Kamara of the University of Sierra Leone, Fourah Bay College, whose one month stay in Kumasi as visiting Professor has ended.
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The fourth edition of the annual higher education fair organised by the Canadian High Commission in Ghana, will, for the first time be organised Kumasi. Accra will also host one according to the organisers. The Kumasi edition of the fair comes off on 2nd February, 2012 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the Kumasi Polytechnic has received an early invitation from the High Commission of Canada in Accra.
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The Kumasi Polytechnic has welcomed Professor Joseph Aruna Lawrence Kamara, a Sierra Leonean Statistician and researcher as Visiting Professor for four weeks. Professor Kamara, who is the head of the Department of Mathematics at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, has extensive knowledge in Mathematical Demography, Statistics and Statistical Modelling.
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RAINCOAT Roofing Systems Limited, an Accra-based roofing sheet manufacturing company is to offer a scholarship package to the best Engineering student in the Kumasi Polytechnic, as part of its social responsibility. The Human Resource Manager of the company Ms. Sarah Ewurama Quarshie, who informed the management of Kumasi Polytechnic when she visited the institution said, even though the fine details of the scholarship package were yet to be worked out, the...
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