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The Governing Council of KNUST has appointed Professor Rita Akosua Dickson as new Vice-Chancellor.
The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has given appointment to Professor (Mrs) Rita Akosua Dickson as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University.
Professor Rita Akosua Dickson becomes the first woman to be appointed to the position in the history of the Kumasi-based University.
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Prof. Akosua Dickson’s appointment will take effect from August 1, 2020 according to a statement by the Governing Council of the University.
She was elevated from the Pro-Vice Chancellor position of the institution to the Vice Chancellor.
She served as the acting Vice-Chancellor in October 2018 when the then Vice-Chancellor Prof. Obiri Danso was asked to step aside temporarily, after weeks of student agitations and violence on the campus.
Prof. (Mrs) Dickson was the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences before her appointment as the Pro-Vice-Chancellor.
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In 1994, Mrs Akosua Dickson graduated from KNUST with Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy.
She pursued graduate studies leading to the award of MPharm in Pharmacognosy in 1999 and was appointed a lecturer the following year in the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, KNUST.
She also holds a Ph.D. and a Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (GCAP) from Kings College, London.
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