Now-a-days the need for higher education institutions to a have a reliable, effective and attractive web presence is increasing as online technology is becoming an important part of the educational process. The higher education institutions play a vital role in the development of a society while higher education websites have a lot of roles to fill. They need to provide information for prospective students, current students, parents of students, faculty, alumni among others.
The official website of the University of Cape Coast, www.ucc.edu.gh, though contains very relevant information and news updates very much mimics the electricity struggle, popularly referred to as “dumsor”, the nation is facing.
Although the website was recently redesigned, it’s accessibility is very much unreliable. Today the website opens, the next day or sometimes just hours later it says “server not found”. This has been observed for close to two years now.
Many are the questions that prospective students ask us as a campus news network and most of the time, we direct them to specific pages on the related university’s website but unfortunately the UCC website has been very much unstable. The “dum” is usually observed during admission period most likely due to the increased traffic but websites/servers of other universities are able to contain that, UCC too can.
A screenshot of the UCC website taken on 16th January, 2016 at 6:25pm.
myJCR.com, on behalf of prospective students especially, respectfully calls on authorities of the University of Cape Coast to boost the uptime of the UCC official website to make very much needed information accessible 24/7.
For prospective students to make the right choices, the availability of relevant information any day and any time is very much crucial. We don’t know what the exact problem is yet but we hope enough measures are put in place early enough for 2016/2017 applicants and beyond.
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