Winneba, C/R Sept. 27, GNA - Prof. Francis Joppa, Director, International Relations, University of Education Winneba (UEW), on Saturday advocated the establishment of inter-university relationship between UEW and the US-based Curry University of Virginia (CUV) to facilitate the exchange of ideas among students. Prof. Joppa made the suggestion, when he met with representatives of the CUV and briefed them about the academic activities of the UEW. The 500 member delegation comprised lecturers, students, administrators and engineers from the Institute for Shipboard Education and the Fall 2009 Voyage of Semester at Sea, touring some countries in the world.

Prof. Emeritus James M. Cooper and Dr. Shamim Sisson from the CUV led the delegation.

Prof. Joppa recalled similar inter-university partnership between the UEW and a sister university in Nigeria. He said the UEW and the CUV relationship would yield academic, economic, technological and cultural results. "We can conveniently pursue this laudable goal through the preparation of a comprehensive memorandum of understanding between the authorities of the two universities," Prof Joppa said. Prof. Cooper promised to take up the UEW proposal with the CUV authorities.

Earlier the team paid a courtesy call on the Efutu Municipal Chief Executive, Nii Ephraim and the executive members of the Efutu Traditional Area.

Dr. Sisson said the shipboard programme covered a total of 750 students at every semester, adding that at the moment; the ship was carrying 521 students selected from various universities in the world. She said the programme would take the students to countries like Nova Scotia, Spain, Morocco, South Africa, Mauritius, India, Vietnam, China, Japan and Hawaii. The team who spent three days in Ghana had since sailed to South Africa.