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The Graduate Students Association of Ghana (GRASAG) of the Ghana Technology University College has handed over power to a new executive to handle the affairs of the association for the next one year.

The six member executive was made up of; the President, Vice President, Organising Secretary, General Secretary, Treasurer and Women’s Commissioner.

Dr Ebenezer Malcalm, Dean of the Graduate School speaking in an interview with the GNA noted that GRASAG was a concrete body that had been established for the University to support the course of students to address their challenges.

He said with their collaboration, the Management of the School would help to build the capacity of the executive to make them more productive as they liaised between the student body and the Administration.

Dr Malcom said even though the University launched a strategic plan and vision 2021 with 10 thematic areas during their 10th anniversary celebration last year, the key among them was ‘their preparedness to inculcate the spirit of entrepreneurship and innovativeness among the student body’.

He said they had programmes tailored to achieve objectives such as; international business, finance, and supply chain management which were industry based programmes.

Mrs Vera Graham Asante, Head of Administration of the Graduate School, told the GNA in an interview that the handing over ceremony was supported across the country to make it successful.
She said the main goal of the Association was to spearhead research both in academia and industry among students hence the need for the new executive to work hard to achieve the goal.

Mrs Graham Asante said the incoming executive had pledged to liaise with identified industries in “industry led research” and also organise expert lectures to make a theory into practical lessons for the Graduate School and the Management would support them to accomplish that responsibility.

Mr Louis O. Amankwah, the New President of GRASAG speaking in an interview with the GNA said they would be able to address the concerns of the students if they were abreast with them.

“We will sit with the School’s Board and assess factors that directly affect students and find measures to resolve them”, he said.

Mr Amankwah noted that the Executives would work hard to achieve the promises they made to the students during campaigning such as getting a website for the school, outing measures in place to ensure that students were secured for theft cases that had occurred in the school a couple of times and the employment of an administrator for their office to support the students with documentation and other relevant activities.

He said they would lobby for students’ results to be released on time, adding that “When results are not released on time, there comes no encouragement for students when they are going to write another exams especially when they haven’t seen their previous results”.