The Vice Chancellor of the Koforidua Technical University(KTU), Professor David Kofi Essumang has urged more women to pursue engineering programmes in the technical universities.

He noted that, female enrolment with regard to engineering courses was one of the lowest compared with other programmes in the technical universities.

“You go to the engineering classes and you will either find few women or no women at all and this is not encouraging.We need more women to pursue such courses.”

Professor Essumang was speaking at a short ceremony to honour one of the Higher National Diploma (HND) students, Ms. Chrisbella Tiwaa Nkansah who was adjudged the overall best female student in Medical Laboratory Sciences(HND) in Ghana by the Ghana Association of Medical Laboratory Sciences (GAMLS).

GAMLS gave the award after organising a competition among HND and Diploma Medical Laboratory Science students from the various universities in the country.

Chrisbella from KTU emerged best female student with the highest Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA)in the area of Medical Laboratory Sciences in this year’s competition.

The Vice Chancellor reiterated the need for more women to venture into engineering and science related courses so that they would be empowered.

“There is the need to reverse the trend where we have more males than females doing engineering and science related courses because females also have a vital role to play in the development process of our society and country through science and engineering.”

Prof. Essumang said that KTU was proud to have one of its female students adjudged the overall best female in Medical Laboratory Sciences in universities across the country and urged other women to be encouraged by the achievement of Ms Nkansah. 

He disclosed that management had put in place certain initiatives to encourage the enrolment of more females into such areas and was committed to helping such  females to successfully complete their courses and said that the university would support the awardee in her field of choice.

He encouraged her not to relent on her oars but to strive to achieve more for herself and the university.

Ms Chrisbella Tiwaa Nkansah thanked management and faculty for their support and the honour done her and assured that, she would put up her best in any endeavour to make the University proud.