The Akufo-Addo-led government is putting measures in place to bring
massive transformation into the educational sector, Minister for
Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has said.
He made the comments at the National Education Week forum held in
Accra under the theme Re-Assessing Educational Policies for Effective
Service Delivery and National Transformation.
According to Dr. Adutwum, his outfit would continue to drive the
transformational agenda of education in the country but said, even
though Ghana is doing better than other countries in terms of
transformation in the educational sector, we still need to do our best
to go high.
We have to change the way we do business. We are not close to where
we can celebrate. Ghana he indicated is blessed with many talented
young men and women to transform and change the fortunes of the nation
and the world in general.
Dr. Adutwum further noted that the educational sector can produce
about 30,000 engineers a year in Ghana instead of the current 6,000 that
it is producing.
He said better days are ahead of the country and therefore, Ghana can
do better than what it has done in the past 60 years and urged all
Ghanaians to support the transformation agenda in the educational
sector.
Graduate unemployed in Ghana the Minister indicated, is something
that the educational sector can take care of. We should produce
graduates that whose services are needed for. When the education sector
produced graduates whose services are not needed, they have to be
blamed.
Ghanaian companies he hinted, are now looking for mathematics
graduates to employ but they are not getting them saying, the
educational institutions should produce graduates that the market wants.
He said, there should be a way that companies can recruit qualified
students and give them jobs adding that, causes at the Universities must
be looked into to match the job market.
The
2022 National Education Week, brought together policymakers,
researchers, and practitioners to share rigorous evidence that has been
collected about the impact of policies and interventions in education
aimed at improving service delivery and learning outcomes in Ghana
likewise, identify ways in which evidence can be used to drive the
implementation of education policies and programs to facilitate better
decision-making processes.
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