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Fifty-ninth Annual New Year School to
examine tertiary education
Accra, Jan. 3, Ghanadot/GNA - The 59th New Year School opens
on Friday, January 4, to critically examine how well
tertiary education could be made to respond to challenges of
national development.
The school, an annual event organised by the Institute of
Adult Education (IAE) of the University of Ghana, is on the
theme: "Tertiary Education and National Development" and
would bring together participants from all over the country
to deliberate and come out with valuable suggestions to
reposition tertiary education.
Their suggestions would also inform policy makers to
prescribe strategies that would make it a focal point in the
effective transformation of the country into a middle income
level by the year 2015.
Mr Ishmael Wilson Parry,
Director of the New Year School, said due to the social
demand for higher education, the Institute saw the need to
throw a searchlight on Ghana's tertiary education system to
find out the crucial role it had played in national
development.
He said the establishment of the country's six public
universities and a myriad of private universities,
polytechnics, teacher and nursing training colleges and
distance learning centres was not only to provide the skills
necessary for the labour market but also the training that
was essential to develop the capacity and analytical skills
that drove the national economy.
Mr Parry said the IAE was founded in 1948 as the Department
of Extra-Mural Studies and had been engaged in University
based adult education throughout the country ever since.
He said among its duties was to service the community, which
included training for adult literacy work, public lectures
and residential schools such as the New Year and the Easter
schools. This year's school ends on January 10.
GNA
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