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Government should match tertiary education with job
creation- Dr Ayisi
Accra, July 26, Ghanadot/GNA – Dr
Gabriel A. Ayisi, a Ghanaian businessman based in
the US, has called on government to ensure the
creation of adequate job opportunities to match the
high graduate turnouts in the country.
Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency,
Dr Ayisi in Accra, he said although the country was
witnessing growth in the number of private tertiary
institutions, employment opportunities for graduates
were virtually non-existent.
He said the increase in the number of institutions
of higher learning was a positive step but the focus
was only on human resource development and not job
opportunities.
Dr Ayisi said failure to create adequate job
opportunities to match the high graduate turnout
would increase the problem of brain drain in the
country since graduates without livelihoods would
seek greener pastures in Europe and America.
“Another avenue for job creation is to expand
infrastructure such as roads, efficient rail system
and hospitals, which are the bed rock of
development,” he said.
He said, Ghana’s infrastructural developments had
not been able to match natural growth and this was
impeding the socio- economic development of the
country.
Dr Ayisi who holds Master of Business Administration
from Youngstown State University, (USA) and PhD in
Organisational Leadership from the Columbian
University is in Ghana to launch a book entitled
“Higher Education Centered Economic Growth and
Development; Ghana as a case study”.
He said the book took a critical look at issues
associated with higher education in Ghana.
According Dr. Ayisi, the book also discussed how to
ensure full participation and integration of
colleges, universities and professional schools in
local, state regional and national economic
planning.
Dr Ayisi said the book which was a product of an
intensive investigation, also outlined how to use
science and technology education for economic growth
as well as the need to make higher education more
practical.
He said, the current structure of Ghana’s higher
education was more of rhetoric adding that there was
the need to link industry with the development of
the educational system of the country.
Dr Ayisi also called on industry to take keen
interest in the country’s educational development by
sponsoring research programmes and playing a role in
the development of their course structures.
The book launch is scheduled for Thursday, August 6,
in Accra.
GNA
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