Curricula-Industry gap accounts for graduate unemployment – Awuah

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Kantanka. HH 10 years ago

Innovation or trend setting to suit the populace will be the answer. For services, forget it because we have enough. Production will provide the masses jobs for them to patronise services provided energising their demands. ...
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Innovation or trend setting to suit the populace will be the answer. For services, forget it because we have enough. Production will provide the masses jobs for them to patronise services provided energising their demands. Money can then circulate providing the best of social needs. Don't expect every graduate to set up his own business What type of business? How is he going to begin supposing he studied mechanical engineering? Over to you!!
Kantanka. HH 10 years ago

Dr. Awuah please answer this question. How big is our job market and how accommodative should it be? If we have enough jobs which our students are not capable of doing because of skills originating from our curiiculum, t ...
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Dr. Awuah please answer this question. How big is our job market and how accommodative should it be? If we have enough jobs which our students are not capable of doing because of skills originating from our curiiculum, then you can bring in how they best fit the job market.
kk 10 years ago

Doc you are right. Entrepreneurship courses should be included in the all core curriculum and also forms of aid should be available to support innovative students willing to set up something. At least that would help. most to ...
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Doc you are right. Entrepreneurship courses should be included in the all core curriculum and also forms of aid should be available to support innovative students willing to set up something. At least that would help. most top universities in US encourage students not just to depend on looking for jobs but creating jobs as well.
MENSAH 10 years ago

what are the problems ghana has?
WE DO NOT HAVE GEOPHYSICS,BRING THE EXPERTS AND TRAIN SOME IN GHANA.
WE DON'T HAVE GOLD/DIAMOND JEWELLERY DESIGNERS,INTRODUCE IT AT ALL SCHOOLS.

We drill oil,but GHANA does not have skill ...
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what are the problems ghana has?
WE DO NOT HAVE GEOPHYSICS,BRING THE EXPERTS AND TRAIN SOME IN GHANA.
WE DON'T HAVE GOLD/DIAMOND JEWELLERY DESIGNERS,INTRODUCE IT AT ALL SCHOOLS.

We drill oil,but GHANA does not have skilled workers for that industry.
I think,our children have to be taught and trained on industries we have natural resources on,so they can be useful until we are exhausted of those natural resources.
WE EXPORT THESE NATURAL RESOURCES,VIRTUALLY FOR PENNIES,THAT DO NOT HELP IN ANY WAY.YET WE HAVE BEEN REPEATING THE SAME MISTAKES,FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL.
Foreign mining companies have been sucking us dry since ADAM'S TIME,and what is more,they even lay-off our citizenry whenever they desire.
WHY?
They have seen that we do not think of processing the valuable metal in Ghana:
Just like AN EMPLOYER WHO SEES HIS EMPLOYEES having nowhere to go,but stuck in his business.HE TENDS TO TUNE THEM IN A WAY THAT PLEASES HIM.

Hey,it's about time,we used our damn brains to think,and change things in our classroom,to reflect the needs of the modern world.
ELSE,
WHERE WE ARE,IS WHERE WE WOULD EVER BE,UNTIL WE DECIDE WHERE WE RATHER BE.
GH 10 years ago

At UG you hardly come across students who are willing to be creative. They fight for lecture notes as though their lives depend on it.

They are not willing to create anything.

At UG you hardly come across students who are willing to be creative. They fight for lecture notes as though their lives depend on it.

They are not willing to create anything.
Sammy 10 years ago

Have Ghanaians forgotten so soon when middle school leavers were handling factories and industries in ghana? it pains me when people attack the standard of education in Ghana. People with third class degrees go outside this c ...
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Have Ghanaians forgotten so soon when middle school leavers were handling factories and industries in ghana? it pains me when people attack the standard of education in Ghana. People with third class degrees go outside this country and can easily become professors. why? how many expatriate employees are working in VRA, GRIDCO and ECG? Yes of course, one needs a basic level of education in order to handle some kind of responsibilities. Government and entrepreneurs should create the jobs and you`ll find Ghanaians will equal the challenges. There are people who cannot write their names but manufacture machines for gari processing, blocks food processing equipment. these could be good for exports.entrepreneurs of ghana, wake up and stop the buy and sell trade business. a simple winch was designed at KNUST several years ago, but one finds fishermen still drawing their nets with hard labour, why?
Kojo Billy Duncan 10 years ago

Well said.

Well said.
Kweku 10 years ago

Look Sammy, I don't think the problem is 'how' are we learning, rather 'what' are we learning. Our kind of education auto-run to reproduce a photocopy of foreign pedagogy than a different kind that relates to local challenges ...
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Look Sammy, I don't think the problem is 'how' are we learning, rather 'what' are we learning. Our kind of education auto-run to reproduce a photocopy of foreign pedagogy than a different kind that relates to local challenges.

If there is no quest for defect in the human brain ie challenged on clinical grounds, then I can say that there is direct correlation between 'what' input of training the brain receives and the output it gives. The Africa brains are good just like anywhere in the world but what training does it receive. Imagine a Ghanaian born in Japan, schooled in aircraft engine manufacturing comes to Ghana, this person if even ambitious could hardly manufacture those engines because the environment is not prepared for it as may be the case in Japan or elsewhere. Our third class degree graduates do better outside in the western countries because the material content of knowledge they receive in our universities are made to 'serve' in western problems. Even that, how many of those graduates do we find directly using our local training in core areas of invention and innovation abroad? I know with 3rd class they can clean trains, be security guards, etc straight ahead from Ghana but can they design and manufacture the hoovers they use in cleaning or the train they clean?

Again, I wish you had asked how many of the transformers or machines or service facilities in VRA, GRIDCO and ECG are designed and made by our third class graduates you claimed to be good?

Look Sammy the problem is, the kind of pedagogy we have at home do not connect to solve local challenges as suppose to be. I remember I learned ship building in Japan in secondary school in Ghana whereas our problem in Ghana in my secondary school days was not ship transportation of our cocoa beans exports to the global world but rather the 'raw cocoa beans' without substantial value added in terms of consumer end product which is needed to command price and create wealth was and still a problem. In that case, if the course content and teaching facilities had been cocoa processing to final consumers, don't you think I could have helped dealt with the 'raw cocoa beans' no value added problem whiles I still cannot manufacture even a canoe let alone ship?

There are sooooooooo many problems in Ghana we export to abroad for solutions or answers that's why everything around us in Ghana is made and imported from outside Ghana. Tertiary level education is meant to train the brains to solve problems, however, are our local brains trained in the universities to be creative in solving local challenges?

Now, if our education is geared towards local creativity in design and manufacture and the related services even in the goods we import alone, with all the raw materials already on our doorstep what do you think Ghana would be? Graduates on streets selling dog chains? Are our so-called industries themselves designed and made from Ghanaian technology and/or are our education programmed to design and make local industrial installations? If no, why are we surprise to find a gap?
BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

the thieves in the elephant family are fond of behaving as if they are angels. they are fond of accusing jj rawlings of having killed other Ghanaians but what about them? who killed the following sons of the country when the ...
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the thieves in the elephant family are fond of behaving as if they are angels. they are fond of accusing jj rawlings of having killed other Ghanaians but what about them? who killed the following sons of the country when the most corrupt president kufour held this country of ours hostage for eight horrible years?1. YANA & his 40 subjects2. the cpp chairman of the northern region.3. Rokko Frimpong from the bank of Ghana.4.journalist ENNIN murdered in Kumasi5. what about over one hundred Ghanaians football fans at the Accra Staduim?6.even it is rumoured that gentleman baah wiredu had to die because he knew tooo much of dirty deals committed by thief kufour and his gang of thieves.7. it is also rumoured that they had hands in the death of the former vice president aliu mahama.8. what about major quarshigah?upon all these atrocities they will always fool Ghanaians into thinking that they are angels and that anybody from the ndc is satanic.
KnYc (USMC) 10 years ago

We can change all the quantitatively analytical all you want, if we are not producing enough finishing GOODS in our country, the buy and sell, all the china imports are jobs killers. How can you have GOLD, and end up buying G ...
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We can change all the quantitatively analytical all you want, if we are not producing enough finishing GOODS in our country, the buy and sell, all the china imports are jobs killers. How can you have GOLD, and end up buying Gold chain from another country? How can you have land and import most of your food from another country? We should build industries that will support our needs. The gov't should give TAX brake to investors who are willing to produce GOODS in the country not tax them so high. Our TAXES is a JOB killer, if we produce 50% of our needs all this graduate will fine jobs to do. Now in USA people are buying made in USA goods to keep jobs in U.S. This is why the unemployment rate is now 6.7% from 7% in U.S. There are many demand for GOODS but we don't produce it our self. Stop depending on CHINA, they are JOBS Killers.
Alex 10 years ago

Do we have jobs that are not being filled for lack of skills from our graduates? Our graduates receive the right knowledge but our economy refuses to grow to absolve them. The government should make it a priority to continue ...
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Do we have jobs that are not being filled for lack of skills from our graduates? Our graduates receive the right knowledge but our economy refuses to grow to absolve them. The government should make it a priority to continue to grow the economy and also create the enabling environment for the private sector to grow and that will widen the size of the Job market.
KnYc (USMC) 10 years ago

Thank you Alex, well said they acting like, the labor force is in decline.

Thank you Alex, well said they acting like, the labor force is in decline.
kosoko 10 years ago

The Germans say 'stimmt'-- agree! I'm 100% with you. From my point of view, you hit the nail. What Mr. Awuah is talking about is only part of the problem from another angle. But you really hit the nail.

The Germans say 'stimmt'-- agree! I'm 100% with you. From my point of view, you hit the nail. What Mr. Awuah is talking about is only part of the problem from another angle. But you really hit the nail.
Augie 10 years ago

I don't understand all these nonsense. This guy should just shut his mouth. If the jobs are there, a graduate does not need to hold a tool in his/her hands to be employed. University education is not to train carpenters and m ...
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I don't understand all these nonsense. This guy should just shut his mouth. If the jobs are there, a graduate does not need to hold a tool in his/her hands to be employed. University education is not to train carpenters and masons. Universities are supposed to train people how to think and solve problems. A good graduate should not take more than a month on the job training in order to make an impact. Why are these stupid fools always blaming universities for unemployment when the jobs are not there.
kosoko 10 years ago

But please, Awuah is right there! Our graduates really don't have innovative and creative mind. Our ministers and directors are good examples of such non creative minds. Graduates must also create but not only to be trained t ...
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But please, Awuah is right there! Our graduates really don't have innovative and creative mind. Our ministers and directors are good examples of such non creative minds. Graduates must also create but not only to be trained to take a responsibility of what is being created. Awuah himself is a topical example of such creative graduates in Ghana.
Augie 10 years ago

Please, I don't think you know what is innovation. This guy came and establish school and taking money from people and you consider that creative. Please, then am afraid and no wonder you are defending because you don't seem ...
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Please, I don't think you know what is innovation. This guy came and establish school and taking money from people and you consider that creative. Please, then am afraid and no wonder you are defending because you don't seem to know anything about creativity and innovation. In any case hasn't this guy started by working for someone. Look, we need to invest in our youths and give them the opportunity.
kosoko 10 years ago

I agree with you that we invest in our youth. That is a failure on the part of the state. But I tried to define creativity in terms of having the ability to conceive an idea out of a problem with specific purpose and manage ...
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I agree with you that we invest in our youth. That is a failure on the part of the state. But I tried to define creativity in terms of having the ability to conceive an idea out of a problem with specific purpose and manage to materialize it.
Ruth 10 years ago

We need to change our mind-det that when we finish school, we must work for other people, when we can be self-employed. Also the world is now a smaller place due to social media etc so you can work for someone from another co ...
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We need to change our mind-det that when we finish school, we must work for other people, when we can be self-employed. Also the world is now a smaller place due to social media etc so you can work for someone from another country without ever stepping into that country. Se we need to look into all these things.
Ruth 10 years ago

We need investors because investmenst bring jobs. There are a lot of Ghanaians living abroad who want to invest in Ghana but they do not know how and do not trust that their investments will be well taken care of. These are s ...
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We need investors because investmenst bring jobs. There are a lot of Ghanaians living abroad who want to invest in Ghana but they do not know how and do not trust that their investments will be well taken care of. These are some of the problems our country is facing
www 10 years ago

If the economy is good every paper qualification worthwhile

If the economy is good every paper qualification worthwhile
www 10 years ago

We're going back not because of education but very filthy bad politics

We're going back not because of education but very filthy bad politics

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