Newly admitted students of the Ghana Technology University College (GTUC) have been challenged to put knowledge they would acquire in school to help change the face of poverty and despair in the country.
“The expectation is that you will use what you learn here to make a difference in the lives of the people of this country and beyond, to help people of this country become prosperous and healthy”, Dr Robert Awuah Baffour, Vice President of GTUC told the 722 new students.
Dr Awuah Baffuor was speaking at the 15th Matriculation ceremony for newly admitted students pursuing various undergraduate programmes at the GTUC for 2014/2015 academic year.
According to him, major economies around the world have been transformed significantly largely “due to education”, and therefore urged the students to take advantage of their opportunity to access tertiary education “and use it to build capacity and serve as agents of change in the society”.
“The future of our continent depends on our willingness to harness the information and communication technologies to advance our development. This is the key that can open the doors of the new global economy and its benefit to us”, Dr Awuah Baffuor said.
He added that any nation that does not join the new economic order and unable to harness the power of ICT would be effectively locked out of the new global economy, and forced to remain a marginal player on the world economic stage.
By: Eugenia Tenkorang/citifmonline.com/Ghana