According to the Director General of the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC), it is past due for Ghana’s education system to be transformed into one that is more industry-oriented.
Dr. Kodjo Essiem Mensah-Abrampah claims that the country’s current unemployment rate is a result of the system’s failure to adequately prepare students to meet current industry standards.
In an interview with PM Express Business Edition, he stated that the NDPC has collaborated with a select group of technical universities to implement a precision quality standard policy to prepare students for the job market.
We must examine the type of training we provide to these young people. Therefore, you would realize that over the past three or four years, the focus has been on C-Tech and then TVET, which is vocational technical engineering with a focus on mathematics and other subjects. You develop these technical abilities.
“And once you are able to do that, which is what the industry is lacking, it is not only providing them with a change in attitude and mindset but also running them through it, which is what the private sector is looking for.
The private sector does not want someone who does not possess any of these skills when they first enter the workforce. Therefore, we must alter our entire educational and training system, and we are not just discussing it,” he stated.
He continued, “Identification of institutions that have turned into real pilots for this practical process is embedded in this whole policy.” Therefore, some of our technical universities, with which we have been collaborating for some time, are producing entities and individuals for our industrial endeavors.
