According to the 2023 Times Higher Education Rankings, the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has been ranked the best university in Ghana, first in West Africa and 4th in Africa in the
Recall that in 2022, the university earned the bragging right as the best university in Ghana, the best in West Africa, the 4th best university in Africa and the best university globally for research influence.
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This latest ranking includes 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions, making it the largest and most diverse university ranking to date.
The organizers of the ranking analyzed over 121 million citations across more than 15.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 40,000 scholars globally.
In total, about 680,000 points from more than 2,500 institutions that submitted data were collected.
The Uk’sUniversity of Oxford topped the ranking for the seventh consecutive year. Harvard University remains in second place, but the University of Cambridge jumped from fifth last year to third.
UCC has indeed, highlighted the greatness of Ghana on the world map on a very commendable positive note with their enviable feat.
Meanwhile, the Presbyterian Church of Ghana has inaugurated the first psychiatric hospital in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region.
It is a 10-bed specialist facility for the five northern regions since the Tamale Teaching and Central hospitals only have a unit and department designated for mental health patients.
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Graphic Online reports that the well-equipped facility was built for €43,000 with funds from Friends of Bawku, a benevolent group based in the Netherlands, and the Presbyterian Church of Ghana.
Friends of Bawku funded two-thirds of the total cost of the facility, which was started in April 2022 and completed in September 2022, while the Presbyterian Church paid the remaining one-third of the cost.
Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rt Rev Prof Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante is part of efforts to help address the issues of mental health cases across the country.