By Eric Appah Marfo, GNA
Accra, Dec 14, GNA — Most Reverend Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Cape Coast has said education that lacks a relationship with God is anything short of proper education.
Most Rev Palmer-Buckle who is also the Founding Chancellor of the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology (CIBT) said even though education had grown rapidly all over the world, it was unfortunate that those in the helm of education focused on only a few aspects of what education truly represented.
He therefore called for a boost in the education sector to provide a holistic and well-grounded education system.
Most Rev Palmer-Buckle made these remarks on during a ceremony organized by CIBT in Accra to honour its Chancellors.
The event was also to officially send off Most Rev Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle, the Founding Chancellor of CIBT and welcome Most Rev John Bonaventure Kwofie as the new Chancellor.
It further sought to solicit funds to support the Institute and create an avenue for socialisation.
The Founding Chancellor said good things only came to those who never gave up and urged management of CIBT to persevere towards the success of the Institute.
He pledged his support to the current administration and encouraged them not to give up.
“I will not leave the task in your hands alone. I will support you with my prayers. If there’s anything I could help with, please don’t hesitate to let me know. This is a mission and I am sure we will fulfill it together.”
Most Rev John Bonaventure Kwofie, Chancellor of CIBT expressed appreciation to the guests for honoring the invitation and the organising body for putting together the event.
He noted that God brought the students into the institution to help build it, and therefore charged them to be ambassadors of the institution.
“Let us work together to achieve the vision of CIBT. I call on you all to put our hands together to grow CIBT,” he said.
Mrs Felicity Acquah, Chairperson for the occasion said aside the regular academic departments, the Institute had a Business and Faith Development Centre (BFDC) which supported the study and practice of business ethics and held programmes to advance the understanding of spiritual values and ethical standards in business practice.
The Centre also organised workshops and seminars on the social and economic impact of Christian religion in Ghana, and carried out relevant research and consultancies.
Again, it organised courses and study sessions on various aspects of the Catholic faith especially for the lay members of the Church.
Mrs Acquah said the Institute was faced with lack of adequate funds, equipment for teaching and learning, low student numbers, few programmes, inadequate library facilities, under staffing, among others.
She said as at August 2017, the Institute had no hostel facility for students and had to convert an abandoned junior staff quarters into a 24-bed hostel.
This, she said made the Institute unattractive to students, especially foreign ones.
To salvage the situation, CIBT is currently having a discussion with a private investment organisation to provide a 300-bed hostel facility on a build-operate-transfer basis, she noted.
She said CIBT recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding for collaboration with Sophia University (Tokyo, Japan) and was seeking collaboration with other universities.
GNA
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