• Train statisticians and data scientists to become effective interdisciplinary collaborators who can move between theory and practice to solve problems for real-world impact
• Serve as research infrastructure for researchers and decision-makers to collaborate with statisticians and data scientists to enable and accelerate research and data-based decisions that make a positive impact on society
• Teach short courses and workshops to improve statistical skills and data literacy widely.

Under the Directorship of Prof. Bashiru Imoro Ibn Saeed, the TaTU Data Science Lab is committed to being a centre for building statistically sound and scientifically solid foundation for the analysis and interpretation of data, as well as improving quantitative literacy among stakeholders. The goal of the Lab by 2026 will be to train the next cohort of collaborative statisticians and data scientists who would serve as a foundation for the support of growth of local researchers, businesses, government, and NGOs.

Currently, the objectives of the Lab are to teach short courses, apply statistical computing and data mining to real-world problems in society and industry. It would also explore the creation of novel statistical and computational courses and methods for scalable statistical computing and modeling with complex data sets.

The Lab will provide regular support to faculty and students engaged in research and teaching of other hands-on practical computing areas to students.

Briefing the press in the ICT auditorium on Tuesday 28th September, 2021, the Dean of the Faculty, Dr. Abdul- Razak Abubakari presented the vision and mission of the faculty and emphasized that the Faculty is to train values-based business leaders  resourced with innovative skills mix to become national and global change agents. To realize the mission, a number of strategies are adopted and one of such is the introduction of unique business programmes. These programmes are Bachelor of Technology in: Applied Accounting, Management, Logistics and Procurement Management, and Entrepreneurship and Innovation. There have been additional HND programmes in Bilingual Secretaryship, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Purchasing and Supply and others. He expressed the intention to train students in the faculty to become job creators other than job seekers.

On the uniqueness of the newly introduced programmes, he said “Other’s may run these programmes by name, but we are more about the practicality, thus giving students the requisite practical experience to be job creators other than job seekers”. All our new programmes are embedded with relevant software packages to give the students the appropriate innovative skills required in the industry. Besides that, the programmes have the relevant soft skills mix that will make our students adaptable to any work environment and become appropriate fit to any team they are to work with.

“Our B. Tech in Management and the BTech in Entrepreneurship and Innovation offer opportunities for the students to be exposed to incubation experience and internships. The Management students have option of choosing vocational in other facilities courses as their electives”.

He therefore recommends Tamale Technical University’s  Faculty of Business for every student who have interest in pursuing business courses to the high levels, as they may be more resourced than others who opt to study in other universities.

The Dean also encouraged the media to frequently engage members of the faculty in the discussion of public issues relevant to business development and on the economy.

The program was attended by the  Heads of Department in the Faculty and the Director of Public Affairs of the University

The theme of the Congress was: “The worker as the engine of productivity-The role of TUWAG in developing Technical Universities”, was held under the chairmanship of the Vice Chancellor of the Tamale Technical University, Prof. Abass Braimah who also doubled

as the Guest speaker of the occasion. He stood in for the VCTUs’s Chairman who was originally chosen as the Chairman. Prof. Abass challenged the delegates to work hard to support the Technical Universities and to also work together to realize the theme of the occasion. He welcomed the delegates from the sister universities and expressed his excitement as the Vice Chancellor to host them.

The outgoing Deputy Secretary, Mr. Fred Alpha Adams explained in a closed interaction with TaTU’s Public Affairs Directorate, that the congress was unique as delegates reduced down the number of elected executives from seven to five. He used the congress to call for the revision of the constitution of the Assocaition.

Other sister unions; Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG), Technical University Senior Administrators Association of Ghana (TUSAAG), Technical University Administrators Association of Ghana (TUAAG) and Tertiary Education Workers Union (TEWU), extended their solidarity messages to TUWAG.