Graduate students of the University of Cape Coast can now undertake quality research to help deal with some problems facing the country.

The University will benefit from the Samuel and Emelia Brew-Butler GRASAG Research Fund for sanitation and health research launched during the weekend.

It was conceived from the need for quality research especially in a country like Ghana where the necessity for a paradigm shift in policy direction and development drive cannot be over emphasized.

Many tertiary institutions in Ghana have been seeking in vain the requisite financing and support to enhance quality research work which sets institutions of higher learning like universities apart from others.
Education Minister Jane Nana Opoku Agyeman was joined by Chairman of the University’s Council to launch the twin funds in Accra Saturday. 

A statement released at the launch the Brew-Butler family said universities will only be able to impact on the country and the world at large only it comes out with excellent and useful research

More often than not, the lack of funds either stalls research or forces the student researcher to choose easier topics that are of little relevance to society.

In this light, the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Cape Coast has been considering ways to create a support system to help ease the financial burden on graduate research.

Its chapter of the Graduate Students Association of Ghana- UCC-GRASAG, took the bull by the horn and set up a fund to alleviate the plight of its members. The executives named the fund after Nana Sam Brew-Butler, the Chairman of the University’s council for his immense contributions to the university.

Nana Sam Brew-Butler on the other had  thought of setting up a similar fund in honour of his late wife, Mrs. Emelia Brew-Butler who passed on to glory on 4^th July, 2013.

Nana proposed that the fund be rather named after him and his wife as Emelia was more into research as well as a product of the University of Cape Coast, Hence,

The Samuel and Emelia Brew-Butler GRASAG-UCC Research Fund.

The fund can only be accessed by graduates of UCC whose research work have elements of innovation and invention.