<<Print>>

The seventh (7th) congregation of the Pentecost University College (PUC) has taken place in Accra.

In all, a total of six hundred and seventy-four (674), comprising two hundred and ninety-five (295) females and three hundred and seventy-nine (379) males were awarded degrees in various fields of academic endeavour with 31 them receiving First Class Honours.

The congregation, which coincided with the tenth (10th) anniversary celebrations of the College, took place on the theme: ‘Celebrating a Decade of Excellence’ which is also the anniversary theme.

The day also marked the graduation of the first cohort of PUC’s Graduate School.

Earlier, a matriculation ceremony for freshmen and women for the 2015-2016 academic year —the twelfth in a series— had taken place with a call on the fresh students to strive to attain the highest possible peaks of academic excellence.

Her Ladyship, Elisabeth Ankumah, a High Court Judge, who made the call, challenged the fresh students to make life-long friendships, be willing to be exposed to new ideas and find mentors among themselves, and among faculty members.

Addressing the congregation, the Rector of PUC, Rev. Dr Peter Ohene Kyei, said PUC envisioned a great future for the College—a future characterized by constant faith, deeper learning, great service and the production of a generation of graduates to become transformational servant leaders of integrity.

Rev. Dr Kyei disclosed that within the next ten (10)years, management envisioned PUC with Science and Technology as its focus, for which reason, he said, preparations were underway to start the construction of Pharmacy and Engineering Laboratories.

He called for a relentless war on corruption, adding that there was the need for a transformational leadership to pursue shifts in mindset and reverse mediocrity to excellence, self-serving leadership to sacrificial leadership, corruption to integrity, favouritism to meritocracy and, above all, selfish ambition to selfless leadership by example.

He said as a Christian institution and realizing that value-based education played a key role in societal transformation and economic progress, PUC was committed to its vision to educate the total person, spirit, soul and body.

Rev. Dr Kyei said from the humble beginnings of seven programmes, PUC currently run thirty-two (32) and graduated more than three thousand students (3,000) within the past six (6)years.

The College, he said, had also established a Graduate School with about three hundred (300) students, and had started a Masters programme—MA in Pentecostal Studies— with the first batch of twenty-two (22) students.