Blame education system for immigration of Ghanaians - Political Scientist

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Justice 8 years ago

KOFI OWUSU YEBOAH I SAY YOU ARE a BIG FOOL and liar point blank. There's no where an immigrant will be employed without certificat and interview.It's a lie.

KOFI OWUSU YEBOAH I SAY YOU ARE a BIG FOOL and liar point blank. There's no where an immigrant will be employed without certificat and interview.It's a lie.
Justice 8 years ago

he's a big fool with out no apologies. How can a whole political scientist be chunning out these rubbish? You see why we are where we are in the 21st century Ghana.English has been spoken in ghana for more than 2 centuries an ...
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he's a big fool with out no apologies. How can a whole political scientist be chunning out these rubbish? You see why we are where we are in the 21st century Ghana.English has been spoken in ghana for more than 2 centuries and can say it is because that how many akans can speak Ga even though they live in Accra or how many can speak twi and write twi.English is part of ghana and part of our culture.
Justice 8 years ago

I'm just pissed of so i didn't read through the txt properly.it's sad

I'm just pissed of so i didn't read through the txt properly.it's sad
Zoobie-Zoobie 8 years ago

not much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gh man 8 years ago

Its who u know ..thats what works in ghana..certificates are just formalities..what we need is people with common senses not certificates and degrees and what not..as for the language english..i wud rather not speak it..but a ...
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Its who u know ..thats what works in ghana..certificates are just formalities..what we need is people with common senses not certificates and degrees and what not..as for the language english..i wud rather not speak it..but as ghanaians we always hate our own and like anytin foreign..
Justice 8 years ago

The twi language is foreing to me as a Ga Ok. Americans,Canadians,Australians,Bajans Liberians, Jamaicans,etc are not english people but English is their official Language and they all speak english.Lazy and stupid people wil ...
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The twi language is foreing to me as a Ga Ok. Americans,Canadians,Australians,Bajans Liberians, Jamaicans,etc are not english people but English is their official Language and they all speak english.Lazy and stupid people will always complain. Get out from your comfort zone and learn the english language. Otherwise you will not be Employed but perish. Ghanaians were speaking english during Nkrumahs days as the president and we were doing good. What has changed now?
dd 8 years ago

Mr.Ga man,i think you have to also educate yourself properly in the language you are so proud of and that is your mother tongue English.You mean USA,Canada,Australia are not English people?Who are they?What language did they ...
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Mr.Ga man,i think you have to also educate yourself properly in the language you are so proud of and that is your mother tongue English.You mean USA,Canada,Australia are not English people?Who are they?What language did they originally speak?You have an inferiority complex problem and i will advice you to deal with it.How good do you speak English yourself?You live in Ghana and claiming to be an English man.You think your tribe are not lazy but hardworking and because of that you speak better English than anyone in Ghana?Continue to live in a fool,s paradise.You can never be an English man so start identifying yourself with something else.What statistics show which tribe is lazy and which tribe is hardworking?Gas speak better English than Americans.INDEED
Justice 8 years ago

I'm ghanaian and the mother tongue of ghana is English and not Ga, twi ewe or Hausa. That's why in ghana we write in english and study in english got it.In Mozambique Angola and Brazil they all speak portuguese are they from ...
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I'm ghanaian and the mother tongue of ghana is English and not Ga, twi ewe or Hausa. That's why in ghana we write in english and study in english got it.In Mozambique Angola and Brazil they all speak portuguese are they from Portugal?
dd 8 years ago

I never knew people like you exist.mother tongue of a ghanaian is English.hmmmm.

I never knew people like you exist.mother tongue of a ghanaian is English.hmmmm.
Justice 8 years ago

dd!What's the mother tongue of Ghana if it's not english? TELL ME

dd!What's the mother tongue of Ghana if it's not english? TELL ME
HERB DEFENDER 8 years ago

All those carpenters, mechanics, tecnicians etc. must get fresh data-recorded certificate....that's how the service industry can grow qualitatively. Then their value will rise and so they get paid more....and the more lucrati ...
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All those carpenters, mechanics, tecnicians etc. must get fresh data-recorded certificate....that's how the service industry can grow qualitatively. Then their value will rise and so they get paid more....and the more lucrative it is the more new ideas in that industry. But our leaders are foooooools.
Aj 8 years ago

Thanks dude,they are attacking the proff for what's he said.but they don't know we have Apostle Safo kantanka making cars and many more yet we refused to back him up,becoz he is not having phd's,Dr.....degree.all we know is I ...
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Thanks dude,they are attacking the proff for what's he said.but they don't know we have Apostle Safo kantanka making cars and many more yet we refused to back him up,becoz he is not having phd's,Dr.....degree.all we know is I school in so so uni,this damn uni.,reduce our education system to only English(ohh he/she is in English).we don't even've a common language for all,only 25million ppl is shame.read the bible from Genesis 11:6-9.,we are such a confused nation,almost the whole Africa.
Judcrislam 8 years ago

I think he has point but could not digress on it in a more cohesive way. He has to take a course in persuasive writing.
The problems in Ghana are very simple. Each government want to invent and formulate new policies without ...
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I think he has point but could not digress on it in a more cohesive way. He has to take a course in persuasive writing.
The problems in Ghana are very simple. Each government want to invent and formulate new policies without continuing workable programs from it predecessor. This behavior is drag to national progress.

I think there have been some workable programs in Ghana before but they were all abandoned> I have compiled about twenty of them which could generate jobs but I believe in CPP.

Brother join that party it has a lot of people out Ghana who would contribute immensely to help promote Ghan.
USMAN 8 years ago

If Dr Danaa, who holds a PhD, could behave this way then university education is useless in Ghana. If people of his caliber are leading Ghanaians then, I am afraid, we shall soon fall into a ditch.
Who asked Dr Danaa to take ...
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If Dr Danaa, who holds a PhD, could behave this way then university education is useless in Ghana. If people of his caliber are leading Ghanaians then, I am afraid, we shall soon fall into a ditch.
Who asked Dr Danaa to take sides in a chieftaincy dispute by solely declaring the chieftaincy status of the Americans illegal. Who sent the National Security Officials to go and harass the Americans. We all know the National Security Zombis like operating under the cover of darkness( you remember the Legon Toll Booth Saga) and their hatred for dogs is unimaginable( you remember NS official threatened to shoot and kill the dogs of the software designer of UG students' election). So if the dogs of the two American citizens were killed prior to their gruesome murder you can now see those behind the killing.
Dr Danaa cannot throw dust into our eyes. If others have thrown dust into his eyes, that is his own cup of tea.
BEN USA. 8 years ago

What this man is saying is perfectly true. I've lived in United States for over ten years now. Certificates are the yardsticks to gain a job in the US, even though it's recommended. Who has the time to go through your fake ce ...
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What this man is saying is perfectly true. I've lived in United States for over ten years now. Certificates are the yardsticks to gain a job in the US, even though it's recommended. Who has the time to go through your fake certificate? The advance country, especially the US based the employment on the skill based or the can do spirit.

Currently, I work in the Marcellus oilfield, and had no certificate whatsoever to get in.

What they mostly ask for is the job experience, maybe related job experience and having worked in the construction field in Ghana that landed me lucrative job making six digit a year, more than your President with this all fucking degrees or PhDs but can't solve common dumsor problem.

This is the very reason why the country is not moving forward, looking down on the skilled workers like the masons, carpenters, painters, etc, giving more respect to the fucking thieves like you with a so called fucking degree, yet you can't solve fucking problems when you are faced with.

If you don't know, just shut your stinky mouth up and the the Prof educate us.

After all, it the certificate that solves a problem, it is the holder of that certificate that ought to solve the problem.

Have I been able to educate you?
I know you would say no, because you are a fool
BEN USA. 8 years ago

Certificate are not the yardsticks to gain jobs in US

Certificate are not the yardsticks to gain jobs in US
SADICK MIDDLE EAST 8 years ago

What this man is saying is perfectly true. I've worked outside Ghana for over 20years now l didn't even have middle school Certificates but l healed a position as Superintendent in big company in Australia and now on the same ...
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What this man is saying is perfectly true. I've worked outside Ghana for over 20years now l didn't even have middle school Certificates but l healed a position as Superintendent in big company in Australia and now on the same position here in the MIDDLE EAST Ghanaian s have to change our mindset and stop insulting people advance country based the employment on the skill based or the can do spirit. like my good friend BEN USA is saying.
Nana Adwoa New York City 8 years ago

Ben and Sadick you can be more than right I've lived in the US for 31years in a senior management position of course I chanced to school here to Ph.D level but it's the passion and skills that drives the individual to succee ...
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Ben and Sadick you can be more than right I've lived in the US for 31years in a senior management position of course I chanced to school here to Ph.D level but it's the passion and skills that drives the individual to succeed.I chanced to be in Beijing in the recent past on an assignment and I could not believe what I saw and heard there are well over 900 students in the medicine and engineering in the medical schools which am more familiar I was told by some of the students who actually hold 1st degree in Biological Sciences and who were denied entry to study medicine and engineering perfoming miracles in their chosen fields!Recently I learnt that the induction of 199 doctors in Ghana includes some of these person our loose policy rejected.looking at it from the monetary point of view if they pay an average of $4500 for the 6years does it nit amount to $24300000.00 for the 900 students?
The other day I learnt One minister Fiifi saying someone did not pass his 6th form econs exams my question was that person is running an internationally respected think tank and you who claim to have degree beyond Ph.D can't even manage a Dumsor and the ministry you handle and here exposing the Govt incompetence
Aj 8 years ago

Thanks Sadick,all this man is saying simple true,yet we jump on him as if the world is ending tomorrow. What's we need now is skill full work force as a developing nation. train more people in form of apprenticeship then all ...
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Thanks Sadick,all this man is saying simple true,yet we jump on him as if the world is ending tomorrow. What's we need now is skill full work force as a developing nation. train more people in form of apprenticeship then all these so call mashroom universities with white color jobs,and there's no much office for them work.now did Apostle Osafo kantaka got his knowledge from Oxford uni,before making such great innovation of making cars and so on.let us be smart a little bit.and stop been so judgemental with attacks on ppl who express their opinion. I saw a guy who invented a fufu machine without uni.,certificate and insternd the nation to help him come out big to help stop all this sweats been drop on the fufu.now can some one tell me upon all these big degrees what's have we achieved,our gutters are still the same uncovered since the time of the Portugal reign in Ghana. we need ppl to work with their hands not talking big and cheap English. speaking good English doesn't put food on the table or bring about development. I rest my case?
kill me 8 years ago

Well the has made good point there , the man is talking about skills not certificate most of our brothers who are in Germany, America,UK,are working without certificate working in restaurants, cleaning officers and schools; ...
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Well the has made good point there , the man is talking about skills not certificate most of our brothers who are in Germany, America,UK,are working without certificate working in restaurants, cleaning officers and schools; they are not doing it with certificate, in ghana you have to know someone in a company before you get the chance to work there .
member1 8 years ago

so u too u cant comment without insults

so u too u cant comment without insults
OSEI 8 years ago

I THINK THE WRITER MEANT EMIGRATION NOT IMMIGRATION

I THINK THE WRITER MEANT EMIGRATION NOT IMMIGRATION
Ngi 8 years ago

Totally untrue that foreign immigrants are unemployed without certificates. Certificate and experience are requirements everywhere. Perhaps the National Service postings should consider graduate qualifications and post them i ...
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Totally untrue that foreign immigrants are unemployed without certificates. Certificate and experience are requirements everywhere. Perhaps the National Service postings should consider graduate qualifications and post them into organisations or institutions where their services will help build the experience they may need.
PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 8 years ago

Physics Teacher: “Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head and he discovered gravity. Isn’t that wonderful?”

Student: “Yes sir, if he had been sitting in class looking at books like us, ...
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Physics Teacher: “Isaac Newton was sitting under a tree when an apple fell on his head and he discovered gravity. Isn’t that wonderful?”

Student: “Yes sir, if he had been sitting in class looking at books like us, he wouldn’t have discovered anything.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

It is difficult to clearly understand what was said, versus what was reported by rawgist.com.

But, what is reported here makes little sense.

This, after all, is a global, information, data-driven age. If a mechanic ca ...
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It is difficult to clearly understand what was said, versus what was reported by rawgist.com.

But, what is reported here makes little sense.

This, after all, is a global, information, data-driven age. If a mechanic cannot read, the mechanic cannot operate a Blackberry phone, or other of the newer phones/devices. The mechanic cannot read instructions.

For instance, many years ago there were stories about Ministers who could not operate Fax machines. They were simply square pegs in round holes. Useless for government work.

How do we compete with other nations/economies/societies?
Zoobie-Zoobie 8 years ago

what did the guy say?

what did the guy say?
Nun 8 years ago

Every ability or skills need to have some education attached. The bedrock of every society is education. If you are a cleaner, you don't just need to know how to clean physically but also, how to know which cleaning type of c ...
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Every ability or skills need to have some education attached. The bedrock of every society is education. If you are a cleaner, you don't just need to know how to clean physically but also, how to know which cleaning type of chemical is appropriate and the quantity needed. How do you know this? It doesn't need university degree but some training which would offer you a professional certificate. You could even use this certificate abroad to look for a job. It is the other way around. We lack professional education.
dd 8 years ago

What is education,pls?

What is education,pls?
Kofi 8 years ago

Tell him. I was driving in the USA one day when I came across a road maintenance crew. The man directing traffic had "certified flagman" written on his vest! I know that professions like barbering and hairdressing all require ...
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Tell him. I was driving in the USA one day when I came across a road maintenance crew. The man directing traffic had "certified flagman" written on his vest! I know that professions like barbering and hairdressing all require some kind of certificate to be registered by the States' Board of Cosmetology. Let Kofi Yeboah come again!
Dickson 8 years ago

Ghanaians know everything but cannot do anything.dnt we have so many engineers in this country, what have they done to our development, nothing?
Go and ask Safo katanka of his engineering certificate.
Book long pple but no ...
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Ghanaians know everything but cannot do anything.dnt we have so many engineers in this country, what have they done to our development, nothing?
Go and ask Safo katanka of his engineering certificate.
Book long pple but nothing to show for it.
dd 8 years ago

Thanks my brother.The wright brothers who invented an airplane for the first time were high school drop out.We place more emphasis on education but the fact is we actually dont get anything done with those papers called certi ...
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Thanks my brother.The wright brothers who invented an airplane for the first time were high school drop out.We place more emphasis on education but the fact is we actually dont get anything done with those papers called certificates.
Kuku 8 years ago

Our education system has produced lots of uneducated people like you, judging from your logic!

Our education system has produced lots of uneducated people like you, judging from your logic!
dd 8 years ago

Judging on my logic,meaning you are right in your judgement.What makes your judgement right?This is the problem we have in Ghana.Everybody is right and nobody is wrong.I believe that is what is wrong with us

Judging on my logic,meaning you are right in your judgement.What makes your judgement right?This is the problem we have in Ghana.Everybody is right and nobody is wrong.I believe that is what is wrong with us
FUNNY P, Bamboi 8 years ago

Because of bribe n loot,unskills people ll b employ

Because of bribe n loot,unskills people ll b employ
ugly akufo addo 8 years ago

a pig for him is best

a pig for him is best
eugene 8 years ago

lazy black man who don't know who is father was because everybody slept with his mother

lazy black man who don't know who is father was because everybody slept with his mother
Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago

What is happening to the staff at the political science depth at KNUST? First it was head of the department along with other empty-headed show horses running off at the mouth about politicians now it's the turn to talk about ...
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What is happening to the staff at the political science depth at KNUST? First it was head of the department along with other empty-headed show horses running off at the mouth about politicians now it's the turn to talk about Ghana's education system. The head of the department Dr. Amoako Baah may have earned his PhD from the University of Tennessee but that is not saying much. Now one of his staff have decided to delve into an area he lacks facts and logic to comment but did anyways. The people leaving Ghana via the legal route, unless granted work permits, permission-based on spousal status in host nation or employer preapproved short term employment guarantees do not obtain legal work just for claiming to possess trade skills or some classroom credentials. Owusu Yeboah should name one country in the Diaspora where professional workers are hired right of the boat without evaluation and assessment in developed industrialized nations? Does Mr. Yeboah know of a medical officer, lawyer, engineer, pharmacist and others hired without completing local certification? Teachers from Ghana or African nations do not get teaching jobs in the Diaspora just for showing up at school districts so where do you get this watered down simplistic ideas?
Ghana is having major problems for 3 simple but solvable reasons: schools churning out students for graduation who are ill-prepared for efforts it takes to make it in the real world, lacking in comprehension in the field of study and limited employment opportunities in the private sector and a pay scale in Ghana lagging behind cost of living. Look the world over and you, Mr Yeboah, will find that the unemployment rates in most western European nations are higher and been so since late 2008 while in the Americas people migrate to the USA to fight over limited high pay jobs therefore pushing hourly rates down by design at the hands of manufacturers and chamber of commerce across the US. KNUST can start by not filling the heads of students with political science theories carved out of tribal dispositions and political party loyalties; show us the number of jobs created out of the political science department?
HAWA YAKUBU 8 years ago

Blaming a system that helps to open minds and bodies to migrate for greener pastures is very fictitious. This is the thinking of a person who calls himself a political scientist. This is the kind of physiological and psycholo ...
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Blaming a system that helps to open minds and bodies to migrate for greener pastures is very fictitious. This is the thinking of a person who calls himself a political scientist. This is the kind of physiological and psychological MINDS you are building in your class-rooms.
Doc, the needed support you are adamantly seeking to negate a system which half baked you, to place such intimidating proximity is far fetch. Such spherical blame could have been put in a conscientious terms and not in this malicious mirth.
These two areas you mentioned had such a minute effect on people leaving the country for better life. Yes!!, for any individuals to secure a job globally, they are necessary tools.
The growth of this titanic cavity, for some people who leave the country can mean different things to a lot of people.
fred 8 years ago

How can a whole political scientist say this, where on this earth will you go and seek for job and you will not be asked to provide a certificate. Even a common cleaner have to provide a professional, certificate of experienc ...
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How can a whole political scientist say this, where on this earth will you go and seek for job and you will not be asked to provide a certificate. Even a common cleaner have to provide a professional, certificate of experience before he or she is employed. PLEASE how you allow people like Kofi Owusu Yeboah say something like this for you to publish here for the whole world to see. Please better take this information from the public.
Kasapreko KWABENA . 8 years ago

You are a liar ? Unless one is taking up a menial job, such as Home or Office Cleaning, Nurses Aid, Housekeeping, etc. You cannot be offered a job as an HVAC Mechanic if you do not have formal skill. Unless may be, if you hav ...
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You are a liar ? Unless one is taking up a menial job, such as Home or Office Cleaning, Nurses Aid, Housekeeping, etc. You cannot be offered a job as an HVAC Mechanic if you do not have formal skill. Unless may be, if you have a friend, who is a Mechanic, and you have proven to him through a means of working with him periodically, and he the owner(Mechanic)having had confidence in what you can do. Otherwise, please do not tell Ghanaians any bullshit. There are well educated Ghanaians in the US, I mean like Lawyers, Accountants, Teachers etc,with Ghanaian certificates who are now doing menial jobs. Why ? If they want to go into their respective fields, they have to re-certify. They have to go back to school. I think you are one of those people who tell Ghanaians that it's all that rosy in foreign lands, only for them to travel to foreign countries to regret their ventures. Kofi Owusu Yeboah, do your home-work well.
obeng, Germany 8 years ago

Good comment

Good comment
Jack Moro 8 years ago

Is it immigration or migration of Ghanaians ? Immigration is a term used for people coming to settle in Ghana . Migration, on the other hand applies to Ghanaians leaving Ghana to settle in other countries. Please check out th ...
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Is it immigration or migration of Ghanaians ? Immigration is a term used for people coming to settle in Ghana . Migration, on the other hand applies to Ghanaians leaving Ghana to settle in other countries. Please check out the differences !
Nana Adjoa 8 years ago

A purely Arts student with 3As 2Bs and 2C4. and D7 in Maths is staying at home for a whole year to resit maths before he would be admitted to the Uni. Je want to teach Eng or French. With working knowledge in Maths not eno ...
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A purely Arts student with 3As 2Bs and 2C4. and D7 in Maths is staying at home for a whole year to resit maths before he would be admitted to the Uni. Je want to teach Eng or French. With working knowledge in Maths not enough. We like certificates too much. Such students should be admitted to uni and take exam later. A student with C6 in 6 sujects can enter uni. Aggregate. 36 whilst student with aggregate 14 stays at home. Arts students shouldn't necessarily have credit in Maths. Please Accreditation Board reconsider so students can enter university and take the maths paper alongside his degree course.
joe 8 years ago

That is ghana stupid wisdom for you bro.

That is ghana stupid wisdom for you bro.
eugene 8 years ago

In almost every state you have to have a certificate to be nurse or hairdresser...Complete 4 years to be school teacher..resident or immigrant..only jobs like mechanic or brick mason, house cleaner. Working at Kfc/walmart/Mc ...
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In almost every state you have to have a certificate to be nurse or hairdresser...Complete 4 years to be school teacher..resident or immigrant..only jobs like mechanic or brick mason, house cleaner. Working at Kfc/walmart/Mc donalds....don't require catering certificates in USA!
zugsungbiiya 8 years ago

Pro, your right

Pro, your right

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