Accra, Nov. 26, GNA - Ninety-seven students were on Wednesday admitted into the African University College of Communications (AUCC) for Diploma and Degree courses.

The students would undertake courses in Strategic Communications, Visual and Digital Communications, Development Communications, General Media Studies, African Studies as well as Print and Electronic Journalism. The Degree course is for four years while the Diploma course is for two years.

Addressing the students, Professor Kojo Yankah, President of AUCC, noted that the school was poised to be the leading communications institution in the country and Africa as a whole. "To this effect from January next year, we will receive lecturers from the US, Kenya, Nigeria and some from our country to come and teach," he said. Prof. Yankah noted that since the inception of the school seven years ago with the Diploma course, it had churned out about 800 graduates who were all doing well in their various fields of studies adding that plans were on board to start courses in Master's Degree soon.

He appealed to the new students to be studious and obey all school rules in order to stay out of trouble with management. Ms Joyce Aryee, Chairman of Ghana Chamber of Mines, who was the Guest Speaker, advised the university to avoid turning out "intellectually displaced persons".

"The reason being that we are sometimes too quick to point out what is wrong with the society but fail to (find) solutions," she explained. Ms Aryee advised the students not consider information as a lethal tool for destruction but as a constructive means for development. She appealed to them to make maximum use of all facilities at their disposal, co-exist peacefully, and allow themselves to be turned into world class professionals.