March 2018

Free HIV Testing Session

The HIV/AIDs Unit of The University of Education, Winneba in collaboration with the Municipal AIDs Unit, Winneba is organizing a free Testing Session for persons who would want to know their HIV status.

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Invitation to K-TALK

The University of Education, Winneba in collaboration with John A. Kufuor Foundation invites the University Community to K-Talk, a lecture series aimed at bringing successful and distinguished resource persons from diverse disciplines and fields to inspire the sense of leadership in students. It is a strategic undertaking by the Kufuor Scholars to extend impacts of their leadership training to young people in educational institutions of higher learning.

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Higher Education Conference in Ghana

Vice Chancellors Ghana invites all and sundry to the Higher Education Conference in Ghana. The Conference is on the theme “Funding Public Universities in Africa – the New Paradigm”. The Conference is scheduled as follows:

Date: Thursday, 5th – Friday, 6th April, 2018

Venue: ISSER Conference Hall, University of Ghana, Legon

 

The Special Guest of Honour is H. E. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo

 

Speakers:

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EASTER CONCERT - 2018

The Department of Music Education Presents "OLIVET TO CALVARY", an annual Easter Concert full of good music and powerful inspirations to usher us to the celebration of the death and resurrection of our Lord Saviour Jesus Christ. This is happening on Tuesday the 27th of March, 2018 at 6:30pm at the Amu Theatre, Central Campus. Follow our Facebook page via www.facebook.com/uewmusicdepartmentofficialpage or call 0242242880 / 0244525556 for more information.

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Application for Fellowship Programme

Applications are invited from qualified PhD candidates for three to four-month fellowship tenable at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.

  1. Eligibility

           Applicants must:

  • Be academic staff of UEW, and must have been confirmed
  • Be on a doctoral programme in UEW in any area relating to Education
  • Be in the second or third year in the 2017/18 academic year.
  • Have successfully gone through proposal defence.

 

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“Sustaining Muni Lagoon and Winneba” – A Collaboration between UEW and University of Virginia, USA

A four-day seminar, has been organized at the University of Education, Winneba, from Monday 5th March, 2018 to Thursday 8th March, 2018 under the aegis of the Centre for International Programmes (CIP). The seminar was co-sponsored by UEW and University of Virginia located in the City of Charlottesville, under the theme “Sustaining Muni Lagoon and Winneba”. The seminar was about a project on tapping the economic potentials of Muni Lagoon, including ecotourism in Winneba.

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School of Creative Arts Embarks on an Outreach Programme

On Thursday, March 15, 2018, a four-member team of lecturers from the Department of Graphic Design, Department of Art Education, and Fashion and Textiles Education Unit in the School of Creative Arts, University of Education, Winneba visited Potsin T.I. Ahmadiyya Senior High School in the Central Region of Ghana to interact with staff and students of the Visual Art Department.

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IN THE BAG OF A WOMAN-A STAGE PLAY

In the world of the guiltless, everyone is guilty. Mrs Dampson bumps into her husband having an affair with a prostitute in their matrimonial home. How does she react? Does she also have some secrets under her sleeves?

Playwright:      Oswald George Okaitei

Director:          Leonora Adjin-Tettey

Dates:
Thursday, 22nd March 2018
Friday, 23rd March, 2018
Saturday, 24th March, 2018

Time: 7pm each day

Venue: Amu Theatre, Central Campus

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Sympathisers Pay Glowing Tribute to Late Prof. Okai

It has been a case of overwhelming outpouring of sympathies to the University of Education Winneba (UEW) and the family of the Late Prof. Reynolds Okai since news broke on February 18, 2018 about the death of the late Professor. Records at the Kumasi Campus of University, where the late Professor was Principal, are indicating umpteenth visit of individuals and institutions that are paying glowing tribute to the memory of the late Professor. Their descriptions of the demised Professor mainly trumpeted his attributes of affability, gentility, industry and religiosity.

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All Set for One-Week Observance of Death of Prof. Okai

All is set for what is expected to be a fitting One-Week Observance of the passing of Principal of the College of Technology Education, Kumasi (COLTEK) Prof. (Ing.) Reynolds Okai. In the last few days, every Tom, Dick and Harry at COLTEK has been busy doing one activity or the other, all in preparation for the One-Week Observance (typically an Asante customary rite) scheduled for Sunday March 18, 2018 at the ceremonial grounds at COLTEK.

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Invitation to a Workshop

The Performing Arts Teachers Association of Ghana (PATAG) invites all teachers and interested parties with specific interests in subjects like Drama, Music, Visual Arts, English Literature and Social Studies to a one-day workshop under the topic, ‘The New Curriculum Framework for the Review of Pre-Tertiary Education in Ghana’.

There would be briefing on the whole concept of the review of the National Educational Curriculum Framework for Pre-Tertiary Education in Ghana.

Date    :           Wednesday, 21st March, 2018

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STUDENTS’ CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARITHMETIC MEAN AND THE STANDARD DEVIATION: A CASE STUDY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBA

INTRODUCTION

  • In Ghana, statistics is taught as a topic under mathematics as Collecting and Handling Data at the basic level until the SHS.

             And it is the aim of every introductory statistics course to train students to be efficient

              users, consumers and communicators of statistics (Qian, 2011).

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