Senior managers need professional trainings - Kwamivi

THE Chairman of the University of Leicester Aluminae Committee, Mr Winifred Frealar Kwamivi has called on Ghanaian graduates in senior management positions to pursue Continuous Professional Development Programmes (CDPs) to be abreast of current management and leadership issues.

Mr Kwamivi made the obersation when he addressed students and aluminae of the university in Accra during the unveiling of a GTP wax print cloth as the official wear for students and aluminae of the school.

According to him, issues regarding management and leadership needed constant education and thus called managers and leaders to enroll at the Leicester University for updates on those areas.

The chairman said the unveiling of the cloth was to among other things “brand Leicester University in a traditional way” and further hoped the dream would be realised.

Mr Kwamivi added that the UK is has now become the first country soutyh of the Sahara to have conceived and used a local cloth to brand one of its universities in the eyes of its numerous patrons in Africa.

He thus called on students and aluminae alike to patronise the school’s cloth asa way of gettinmg its message across.

Mr Kwamivi also hinted of plans by the current Aluminae committee towards creating a common UK-Ghana Aluminae Cloth “to be used by all of us in Ghana.

“Plans are also far advance by Leicester University to organise a summer school in Ghana for the post graduate management students in West Africa,” he added.

Mr Kwamivi thanked the British Council, the UK’s international organisation for education and cultural relations in Ghana for its continuous support to the school .

The High Commissioner, Mr Peter Jones who officially unveiled the cloth thanked the University of Leicester Aluminae for the idea of using an African cloth to brand the school.

He also challenged other UK-based educational institutions to come out with exceptional ideas of how to brand their respective schools.

University of Leicester is a research-oriented institution with a student population of 23,000, most of whom are post graduates

The school’s numerous online courses currently enjoy a sizeable patronage from most Ghanaian students.