{"id":193927,"date":"2016-02-28T06:10:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T06:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=193927"},"modified":"2016-02-28T06:10:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T06:10:55","slug":"train-entrepreneurs-not-job-seekers-mahama-to-varsities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=193927","title":{"rendered":"Train entrepreneurs, not job seekers \u2013 Mahama to varsities"},"content":{"rendered":"

President John Dramani Mahama has charged heads of various universities in the country to make their curricula more practical to ensure that graduates are able to establish themselves after their courses.<\/p>\n

According to him, this will ease the burden on government to offer jobs for graduates. He says the situation where almost every graduate expects to be employed in the public sector must change.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”5JcZRet7PljHA8EuFUqkIV9Jq2NqOe8e”]Speaking at the fourth congregation of the Perez University College in Accra, President Mahama said, \u201cmost institutions in the world have changed their curricula to reflect what business and industry wants, and that is to support more practical, evidence-based, entrepreneurial, innovative and problem solving skills. Let us continue to help mould the students; not only into employable persons after graduation, but also to imbibe in them entrepreneurial skills that challenge them to begin to dream of setting up their own businesses even while in school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ghana\u2019s public sector employs 600, 000 yearly<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Ghana, the public sector employs approximately 600, 000 people and every year, more than 50, 000 students graduate from the universities and tend to look for jobs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll over the world, the optimal size of the public sector in any well-functioning governance system does not exceed 5% of the population. In Ghana, the public sector that is paid from government\u2019s budget amounts to approximately 600, 000 people. Every year, our institutions of higher learning churn out more than 50, 000 graduates and all of them cannot be absorbed unto the public sector\u201d President Mahama said, adding that \u201cwe must make our graduates have a vision that they are entrepreneurial minded and so when they come out the private sector will find them attractive to employ.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Mahama also used the occasion to congratulate the efforts of private institutions in providing tertiary education to many Ghanaians.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cwe have a vision of making Ghana an educational hub and it is already becoming so. The number of foreign students studying in our universities for higher degrees, and polytechnics is mind-boggling and it is continuing to grow. That is why it is very important for us to maintain the standards of our academic institutions in order to make them more attractive for students in other West African countries and beyond to come here and study.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ceremony was also used to swear in\u00a0Bishop Dr. Charles Agyinasare as the Honorary Chancellor of Pan AFRICAN Christian University College owned by the Perez Chapel International, which is being re-branded to become Perez University College.<\/p>\n

About 300 students are to graduate from the university.<\/p>\n

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By: Farida Shaibu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President John Dramani Mahama has charged heads of various universities in the country to make their curricula more practical to ensure that graduates are able to establish themselves after their courses. According to him, this will ease the burden on government to offer jobs for graduates. He says the situation where almost every graduate expects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}