Increasing Tertiary Graduations: Is it necessary with current employment conditions?

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• Tekonline.org 9 years ago

  "...in the minds of about 70% percent of the fresh graduates, it is always their thought that when out of school, they expect to get a well paying job, advance to get a property, and get married to the love of their lives and ...
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  "...in the minds of about 70% percent of the fresh graduates, it is always their thought that when out of school, they expect to get a well paying job, advance to get a property, and get married to the love of their lives and live happily ever after with their beautiful kids."
  
  "...I will urge my other fresh graduates and all other job seekers to start investing their time in doing something beneficial for themselves..."

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• Akwadaa Swiss 9 years ago

  THEREFORE,THE YOUTH MUST STAND UP AND HOLD THIER LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR NOT CREATING JOBS BUT WAISTING THIER VERY RESOURCES ON LUXURY LIFE STYLE. FREE EDUCATION WILL SOON COME ON TOP. HUMMM! VERY HARD TIMES AHEAD DEAR..!

  THEREFORE,THE YOUTH MUST STAND UP AND HOLD THIER LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE FOR NOT CREATING JOBS BUT WAISTING THIER VERY RESOURCES ON LUXURY LIFE STYLE. FREE EDUCATION WILL SOON COME ON TOP. HUMMM! VERY HARD TIMES AHEAD DEAR..!

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• Military Man 9 years ago

  "I think the country’s unemployment situation will grow worse until the government starts employing qualified people into its various sectors."
  
  That paragraph essentially captured the overall economic situation in our be ...
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  "I think the country’s unemployment situation will grow worse until the government starts employing qualified people into its various sectors."
  
  That paragraph essentially captured the overall economic situation in our beautiful but a very sad country.
  NO TRUER WORDS EVER WRITTEN OR SPOKEN.
  
  I think this will be a good time to say CONGRATULATIONS to you on your graduation!!!!
  
  I posed a question to you in my comnents to your last article about child labour in Ghana but I never got an answer. Now I know.
  
  CONGRATS once again and keep the articles coming, Bernice!!

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• bernice 9 years ago

  Millitary man, thanks a lot am greatful

  Millitary man, thanks a lot am greatful

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• Abigail 9 years ago

  Agood piece bernice, the future looks really bleak for us the youth

  Agood piece bernice, the future looks really bleak for us the youth

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• Abeeku Mensah 9 years ago

  Ghana's education system, if functioning on all cylinders, would graduate skilled trades and craftsmen, technically astute and research bound students not to forget graduates with entrepreneurial qualities.
  Because the des ...
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  Ghana's education system, if functioning on all cylinders, would graduate skilled trades and craftsmen, technically astute and research bound students not to forget graduates with entrepreneurial qualities.
  Because the designed system failed we have not had people in governments past and present who understand the appropriate levels of investment in education, which areas to invest and or overhaul we continue to muddle through year after year directionless. And without adequate private manufacturing industry base employment of the youth continue to be a problem.
  This then lead to the question what is the perceived ROI for those who tout free education if we do not currently have a handle on youth unemployment? Would the failed education system be self-correcting because of free education and if not are we not setting up a stage for a generation of educated thieves and criminals? Am I supposed to believe that a nation of educated unemployed youth will starve themselves when there are no jobs to sustain their daily lives because the are educated?

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• isaiah@hohoe 9 years ago

  thank u alot my good friend.A lot of my colleagues pursued diploma in basic education(distance) course in the year 2012.Due to the embargo on employment,they have still not been employed up to date.oh! mother Ghana.Drug traff ...
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  thank u alot my good friend.A lot of my colleagues pursued diploma in basic education(distance) course in the year 2012.Due to the embargo on employment,they have still not been employed up to date.oh! mother Ghana.Drug trafficking n armed robbery will be on the increase.

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• insp wei 9 years ago

  The purpose of university education is not only to get jobs, you ignorant fool.

  The purpose of university education is not only to get jobs, you ignorant fool.

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• Joshua 9 years ago

  The institutions in the country should run programmes that could fetch the students jobs not just start any program knowing clearly the skill is not appreciated in this part of the world. If they plan on providing qualified p ...
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  The institutions in the country should run programmes that could fetch the students jobs not just start any program knowing clearly the skill is not appreciated in this part of the world. If they plan on providing qualified professionals not only in Ghana but outside the country as well, then they should consider the number they admit and the measures to help sponsor some of the students to meet their goals. In Ghana, we are only training but not creating the opportunities for the graduates to showcase their skill obtained.
  With this said, graduates should now be more interested in entrepreneurship and look out for the best ways to help themselves by creating something of their own. Graduate unemployment is really worthy of attention. Nice job Bernice.

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• VICTOR WAY KUVODU 8 years ago

  Bernice Owusuwaa made the point.
  However, I wish to note the following.
  The title for the article does not adequately present her key argument, graduate unemployment.
  The unemployment as a phenomenon will not end in its a ...
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  Bernice Owusuwaa made the point.
  However, I wish to note the following.
  The title for the article does not adequately present her key argument, graduate unemployment.
  The unemployment as a phenomenon will not end in its absoluteness anywhere. Nations will continue to experience this problem as they try to tackle it. Its existence does not in any way raise questions for non- training or non-production of graduates.
  We may agree that unemployment in any nation is a socio-economic and political problem that demands adequate understanding for the provision of the solutions. Perhaps the newest economist, sociologist and political scientist or entrepreneur may be able to produce the solutions. Indeed, the development and training of graduates in the social sciences and other areas in themselves constitute the first step to solving the problem of unemployment.
  The Ghanaian condition may be self-inflicted. With the abundant natural resources of Ghana and the mass quality human resource, being produced every year as indicated by Owusuwaa, what again do we need to transform the existing natural resources and generate others to make better livelihoods; good jobs and better earnings? Job creation is the answer. The key issues thereon are: what is government policy on job creation; what is the type of graduate being produced and what is the attitude of the graduate to what is called a job?
  Bernice alluded that, the job is only in the government sector. This is not the case. Though the government sector represents the biggest employer in Ghana, it does not mean that every fresh graduate must find a job in this sector. Depending on your interest, you may choose where to go: private or public. Going public is seeking job in the public sector and the private is you, seeking job with an existing private entity, be it a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME), a Limited Liability Company or a Multinational Corporation or you as a graduate having to establish an entity. I am in the government sector today but I desire to move into my own employment.
  In my thirteen years’ experience as an employee of the state (from academia to Public Administration), I have come to the realisation that our wealth as humans lie in our various talents that God has endowed, each and every one with. I look at the footballers, boxers, the musicians and comedians today and they make the biggest money apart from the drug dealers. Being a descent and responsible citizen, you would not deal in drugs. But with your graduate training, you can identify a problem in your community and the solution is the product, you may develop and offer for sale, from which you earn a living and create wealth as a graduate.
  The next step, what is the nature of support from government to these graduates who identify these problems and seek to provide solutions. In this regard, the government is reported as having initiated a number of programmes to support graduates to establish businesses and employ others, this is the solution to the problem.
  I am the solution, you are the solution. How prepared are you to challenge yourself for employment? This preparation and preparedness can only be achieved through a kind of training in any institutions of learning including the universities. Hence, production of graduates cannot be stopped due to the existing unemployment condition. Rather, graduates must be continually produced in a manner in which they will acquire the capabilities to identifying societal problems including unemployment and providing the solutions for a better Ghana.
  And to achieve the better Ghana, the government, as a matter of urgency must step up the game for tooling and retooling the mass human resource base into a more productive work force capable of transforming the natural and other resources for better livelihoods in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable manner.
  Thank you.

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