Ghana Telecom University College

Ghana Telecom University College
Motto	Linking Learners Everywhere
Established	2005
Type	Private
President	Dr. Osei Darkwa
Undergraduates	1,500
Postgraduates	20
Location	Accra, Greater Accra Region, Ghana
Campus	urban
Website	www.gtuc.edu.gh

Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC) is a fully accredited university founded in 2005 by Ghana Telecom, the national telecommunications company. Vodafone, a British telecom company, acquired GT in 2008, and the university college is expected to become an independent institution in late 2009.

The university was established to provide first degrees (bachelor's degrees) and graduate programs, particularly in Telecommunications Engineering and Information and Communications Technologies. It also offers certificate programs, with courses that provide credit for the bachelor's degree, and a wide assortment of professional development seminars and workshops.

A School of Business opened in January 2009. First degrees in business include Bachelor of Science in Business and Bachelor of Science in Entrepreneurship. A Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Technology is also offered.

In addition, the first group of graduates recently received master of science degrees from the Technical University of Denmark. The programme was offered at the GTUC campus in Accra via broadband telecommunications .

Programmes are under development with several other strategic educational partners, including: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Ghana; AFRALTI, Kenya; The Open University, United Kingdom; DePaul University, USA; Aalborg University, Denmark; St. Mary College of Maryland, USA; Antioch University, USA; University of California, Santa Babara, California; Information Communication Technology(ICU), South Korea; University of Hertfordshire , United Kingdom; Wildau Institute of Technology, Germany

Since its first class of 350 students matriculated in Fall 2006, GTUC has increased its enrollment to about 1,500 students, with 2,000 expected in Fall 2009. GTUC's main campus is located in the Tesano section of Accra, Republic of Ghana. A second campus has been opened in nearby Abeka, a nearby Accra suburb.

University Council

Ghana Telecom University College is guided by a University Council whose members are:

• Professor Walter S. Alhassan, Chairman
• Justice Sophia A.B. Akuffo, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Ghana
• Professor F.K.A. Allotey, Professor in Mathematical Physics
• Mr. Edmund Annan, marketing consultant, KCBC, Accra
• Professor Christine Kissiedu, Former Head of Library and Information Sciences, University of Ghana
• Mrs. Margaret Mwanakatwe, Managing Director, Barclays Bank
• Professor Knud Erik Skouby, Director, Technological University of Denmark-Center for Information and Communication Technologies

President

GTUC's President is Dr. Osei Darkwa (odarkwa@gtuc.edu.gh), who was educated in Ghana and Norway and earned his Ph.D. at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Dr. Darkwa taught for 11 years at the University of Illinois at Chicago, before returning to Ghana to work on the development of strategies and plans for expanding education for ICTs, which figure prominently in Ghana's future in the global economy.

Contacts

GTUC's web site is http://www.gtuc.edu.gh. Its postal mail address is PMB Tesano-Accra, Ghana. Phone number, 021-226766.

GTUC has an office of external affairs in the U.S. Its director is Dr. Steve Eskow (drseskow@gtuc.edu.gh; 805-692-6998).

See also

• List of universities in Ghana
• Ghana