Universitas Ghana

Universitas Ghana (Ing: University of Ghana) adalah perguruan tinggi tertua dan terbesar di antara tiga puluh universitas yang berkedudukan di Ghana. Perguruan ini didirikan pada tahun 1948 dengan nama University College of the Gold Coast, dan awalnya berafiliasi dengan Universitas London, yang memberikan program supervisi akademik dan pemberian gelar akademik. Berstatus sebagai universitas pada tahun 1961, dan sekarang, jumlah peserta didiknya hampir mencapai 40,000 mahasiswa.

Perguruan tinggi ini, awalnya menekankan pengajaran seni liberal, ilmu pengetahuan sosial, ilmu pengetahuan dasar, agrikultural, dan keseehatan, tetapi kemudian kurikulum dikembangkan untuk menyediakan lebih kepada kurikulum berbasis teknologi, kursus vokasi dan pelatihan post-graduasi.

Kantor pusat universitas terletak di Legon, sekitar 12 kilometre sebelah timur laut pusat Accra. Sekolah kesehatan berada di Korle Bu, dengan pengajaran kerumahsakitanl dan kampus sekunder berada di Kota Accra. Kampus ini juga memiliki lulusan sekolah nuclear dan menggabungkan ilmu pengetahuan di Komisi Energi Atom Ghana, yang mengantarkan sebagai salah satu universitas di Afrika Selatan yang menawarkan program fisika nuklir dan teknik nuklir.

Latar belakang 
Pendirian Komisi Afrika Selatan oleh Komisi Asquith di Pendidikan Lebih Tinggi dalam Koloni di bawah kepemimpinan Rt. Hon. Walter Elliot telah melahirkan institusi yang diakui pada tahun 1948. Komisi itu merekomendasikan pengaturan aosiasi mahasiswa dengan Universitas London, sehingga University College of the Gold Coast didirikan oleh Ordinance pada tanggal 11 Agustus 1948 untuk keperluan penyediaan dan promosi pendidikan universitas, dan penelitian. Ini memungkinkan karena penolakan rekomendasi pertama yang berstatus bahwa hanya satu mahasiswa universitas yang dapat dilaksanakan untuk seluruh Britania Afrika Barat, yang akan berlokasi di Nigeria oleh orang-orang Gold Coast yang dipimpin para ilmuwan dan politikus, almarhum Dr. J. B. Danquah.

Perpustakaan Balme 

Perpustakaan berlokasi di kampus pusat universitas.

Perguruan tinggi dan Ilmu Kesehatan 
Ada empat fakultas, satu sekolah, dan satu institut penelitian yaitu:

 School of Medicine and Dentistry
 School of Biomedical and Allied Health Sciences
 School of Nursing Located on the Legon campus though its students receive practical training at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
 School of Pharmacy

Sistem kolegial 
Berawal dari tahun akademik 2014/2015, Universitas Ghana mengadopsi sistem kolegial sehingga mengkategorikan semua kampus dan departemen di bawah empat perguruan tinggi, yaitu:
 Kolese Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam Dasar dan Terapan
 Kolese Ilmu Pengetahuan Budaya
 Kolese Ilmu Edukasi
 Kolese Ilmu Kesehatan

Fakultas-fakultas lainnya 
Ada enam fakultas di luar perguruan tinggi:
 Fakultas Kesenian Britania
 Fakultas Kajian Sosial

 Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan
 Fakultas Hukum
 Fakultas Ilmu Pengetahuan Teknologi

Penelitian dan pusat pendidikan 
 Centre of Excellence for Global Environmental Change Research.
 Centre for Social Policy Analysis
 Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System
 Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy
 Centre for Migration
 International Centre for African Music and Dance
 Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
 Centre for Biotechnology Research
 Centre for African Wetlands
 Language Centre
 West African Centre for Crop Improvement
 West African Centre for Cell Biology and Infectious Pathogens
 The United Nations University for Natural Resources in Africa
 Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy(CEGENSA)
 Regional Training Centre for Archivists
 Ecological laboratory
 Legon Botanical Gardens
 The Ghana Herbarium
 Centre for African Foods
 Centre for West African foods
 Centre for International foods
 Centre for Ghana foods
 African Regional centre for training in postgraduate insect science

Pusat Penelitian Agrikultural Kade 

Kade Agricultural Research Station or Center adalah pusat penelitan yang berlokasi di Kade, Eastern Region Ghana, merupakan bagian dari Pusat Pendidikan dan Penelitian Universitas Ghana. Ini merupakan salah satu dari tiga pusat penelitian yang dimiliki Universitas Ghana. Pusatnya yang berada di Kade didirikan pada tahun 1957 dengan menempati area seluas 99.3 hektar dan menekankan pada penelitian produksi kehutanan, perkebunan antar alain citrus, plantain, cocoyam, minyak goreng and karet.

Dalam bidang seni 
Universitas ini telah mengeluarkan beberapa film dan iklan komersial di televisi. Serial televisi Sun City merupakan salah satu produknya. Nama universitas juga telah dirujuk dalam sebuah lirik di Ghana, antara lain "Legon Girls" karya Sarkodie, "Klu blofo" karya Buk Bak, "Wutatami" karya Kwadei, dan "Four years in Legon" karya Okordii.

Para almumni 
 Anas Aremeyaw Anas – investigative journalist with Insight TWI: The World Investigates, CEO of Tiger Eye Private Investigations, Executive Director of The Crusading Guide
 Patrick Kwateng Acheampong – Inspector General of Police of the Ghana Police Service (2005–09)
 George Kingsley Acquah – Chief Justice of Ghana (2003–07).
 Peter Ala Adjetey – former speaker of the Parliament of Ghana (2001–05).
 Kwadwo Afari-Gyan – Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Ghana
 Mabel Agyemang née Banful (also Yamoa) - Appeal Court judge for the Commonwealth Secretariat, served in the judiciaries of the governments of Ghana, The Gambia and Swaziland.
 Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – President of Ghana (2017 to present)
 K. Y. Amoako – former UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa.
 Reverend Sam Korankye Ankrah – Apostle General of the Royalhouse Chapel International
 John Atta Mills – former Law professor and Vice-President of Ghana (1997–2001), President of Ghana (2009-12).
 George Ayittey – economist, author, and president of the Free Africa Foundation, professor at American University, associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
 Elizabeth-Irene Baitie - award-winning writer of young adult fiction
 Kwesi Botchwey – former law lecturer and finance minister of Ghana (1982–1995).
 Mohamed Ibn Chambas – Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States.
 Phyllis Christian – lawyer, CEO of ShawbellConsulting
 Kwesi Dickson – former President of Methodist Church Ghana.
 Kwabena Dufuor –former Finance Minister and former Governor of the Bank of Ghana.
 Komla Dumor – television news presenter for the BBC World, presenting BBC World News and Africa Business Report. 2003 winner of Journalist of the Year award given by the Ghana Journalist Association.
 Charles Odamtten Easmon – first Ghanaian surgeon and first Dean of University of Ghana Medical School.
 Nana Effah-Apenteng – the Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations between May 2000 and 2007.
 Akin Euba - Nigerian composer, musicologist and pianist, Andrew Mellon Professor of Music at the University of Pittsburgh.
 Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng – cardiothoracic surgeon and former Chief Executive officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, first black African to perform heart transplant and established the National Cardiothoracic Centre, Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (2017-present)
 Ken Kanda - diplomat, the Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations.
 Akua Kuenyehia – Vice-President, International Criminal Court (2003-Date)
 John Dramani Mahama – Vice-President of Ghana (2009–12) and President of Ghana (2012 to 2017)
 Vicki Miles-LaGrange (born 1953) – Chief U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Oklahoma, first African-American woman to be U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and the first African-American female elected to the Oklahoma Senate.
 Tawiah Modibo Ocran – Judge of the Supreme Court of Ghana (2004–08).
 David Ofori-Adjei – elected to the Council of the Division of Clinical Pharmacology of the International Union of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology in 2000.
 Aaron Mike Oquaye – former Minister of Communication (2005–09) and Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya (2005 to present), Speaker of Parliament (2017-present)
 Ebenezer Sekyi-Hughes - Speaker of Parliament of Ghana (7 January 2005 – 6 January 2009).
 Tsatsu Tsikata – former Chief Executive of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation and Law lecturer at the University of Ghana.
 Georgina Theodora Wood – first female Chief Justice of Ghana (since 2007).
 Kofi Awoonor – Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization
 Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur – Vice President of the Republic of Ghana 2012-2017
 Florence Dolphyne – first female Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana.
 Joyce Rosalind Aryee - Minister of Education (1985-1987), Member of the National Defence Council (1993-2001), received Second Highest State Award, the Companion of the Order of the Volta in 2006.

Referensi

Pranala luar 

 University of Ghana
 Photos of the University 
 University of Ghana Alumni

 
Universities and colleges in Ghana
Education in Accra
Educational institutions established in 1948
1948 establishments in Gold Coast (British colony)