The Director-General of the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) Dr. Michael Boakye-Yiadom has called on university authorities to integrate co-curricular activities into the academic curriculum to well equip students for the corporate world.

He notes that the corporate world is challenging and that the world has high expectations of University graduates hence it is critical that lecturers and stakeholders of Universities impart practical knowledge to students to support them.

The Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), a UNESCO Category II Centre at the University of Cape Coast, joined fifteen (15) global UNESCO Category II Centres for Education to dialogue and recommend a road map to achieving the UNESCO Medium-term Strategy for 2022-2029 (41/C/4) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.
 

President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has, through the Minister of Education Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, congratulated the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) on the institute’s attainment of a UNESCO Category II status for the West African sub-region.

A Signing Ceremony took place at the UNESCO office in Paris on Thursday, 12^th November 2020 to formally complete the process to establish the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA), located at the University of Cape Coast Ghana, as a UNESCO Category II Centre of Excellence for West Africa.

Dr. Michael Boakye-Yiadom, has been appointed as the Director General of the Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (IEPA) which is now a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Category II Institute.

The appointment of Dr. Boakye-Yiadom who is the first Director General of IEPA UNESCO Category II is for a four-year term renewable subject to satisfactory performance as determined by the Governing Board of the Institute.