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The original emphasis on establishing the University of Ghana was on the Liberal Arts, Social Sciences, Law, Basic Science, Agriculture, and Medicine. [11] However, as part of a national educational reform program, the university's curriculum was expanded to provide more Technology-based and Vocational courses as well as Postgraduate Training.
University of Ghana [2] Legon 1948 38,000 Legon, Accra, Korle Bu and Atomic, Greater Accra, including over ten workers' colleges all over the ten regions of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology [1] KNUST 1952 21,285 2,306 23,591 Kumasi, Ashanti: University of Cape Coast [3] Cape Vars 1961 15,835 Cape Coast, Central
The University of Ghana Medical School also UGMS is the medical school of Ghana's first public research institution, the University of Ghana. It is currently located at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. [1] [2] The medical school was first planned in 1919, but took its first students in 1962. [1] [2]
The Institute of African Studies is located on the main Legon campus of the University of Ghana.The institute has an old site and a new site. The New Site, 100 meters from the main entrance to the Legon campus, houses the institute's administration and the offices of most of its faculty members.
The University of Ghana Primary School, now called the University Basic School, is a primary school located on the campus of the University of Ghana in Legon, Greater Accra Region, Ghana. It was established at a temporary location in Achimota in 1955 to educate the children of university faculty and staff.
UGBS came into existence by an Executive Instrument (E.I.127) by the Government of Ghana, Accra in January 1960. It was then known as the College of Administration, and was situated on Western the campus of Achimota School with the old Department of Commerce of the Kumasi College of Technology, which became the nucleus of KNUST.
It was established as a public university by an Act of Parliament in 2004. The institute was established in 1961 by the Government of Ghana with assistance from the United Nations Special Fund Project and was initially called the Institute of Public Administration, intended as a specialist training graduate school for civil servants in Ghana. [4]
These two courses remained till 1974 when the status of the college changed to 2-year Post Secondary College. A year later, the first batch of French students was admitted for a 3-year Post Secondary course. The course in French received support from the French government in the areas of equipment, personnel, teaching and learning materials.