Ghana should tailor its schooling system to outfit graduates with present day employable abilities, Professor William Baah-Boateng, the Head of the Economics Department of the University of Ghana has said
He said center should be set advancement and innovation to make understudies serious hands on market.
Prof. Baah-Boateng who settled on the decision during a show on youth improvement, said Ghana's present school system doesn't provoke understudies to be inventive and issue solvers.
He the nation should put accentuation on science, innovation, designing and arithmetic (STEM) instruction to make the young significant in the mechanically determined future and add to public turn of events.
"This idea ought to begin from the essential level with accentuation on Mathematics, and imagination as the case in created and arising economies… this requires a significantly impact of attitude with respect to instructors, understudies, guardians and to be sure all partners to clarify our psyches from arithmetic as a troublesome subject," he said.
Prof Baah-Boateng was talking at the fourteenth National Development Forum coordinated by the National Development Planning Commission (NPDPC) in Accra last Wednesday.
It was on the topic: "The eventual fate of Ghana's childhood: difficulties and open doors."
Prof. Baah-Boateng said however Ghana had kept huge upgrades in admittance to optional and tertiary schooling, joblessness was overflowing among the informed than the uninformed.
He saw that youngster who had accomplished optional and tertiary training for the most part centered around the conventional area for business and dismissed open doors in the casual area.
Prof. Baah-Boateng accentuated that the country's economy throughout the most recent ten years had not seen an extension of the proper area to have the option to assimilate the quantity of graduates that entered the work market yearly.
"While recognizing the rising instructive level of the young as far as amount, nature of training stays an issue. The young is turning out to be more fixated on declarations as against utilizing the authentication to follow through with something," he said.
The 2021 Population and Housing Census (PHC) directed by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) recommends that more than 1.55 million individuals or 13.4 percent of Ghana's financially dynamic populace are jobless - when contrasted with the of 5.3 percent jobless rate kept in the 2010 registration.
The World Bank in 2016 projected that Ghana would need to make no less than 300,000 new positions yearly to ingest the rising number of jobless individuals given the nation's developing youth populace.
Prof. George Gyan-Baffour, the Chairman of NDPC, called attention to that it was significant for the country to assess speculations that had been made in the past to address youth joblessness and divert those endeavors to instructive directions that would bridle the capability of youngsters to set out individual open doors and reinforce the nation's economy,
"The powerlessness of the adolescent to have valuable open doors that permit them sharpen in their abilities, foster their true capacities and gifts to understand their yearnings causes what is going on, with the end goal that it turns into a danger to their endurance and country building", he said.
Dr Anthony Yaw Baah, Secretary-General, Trades Union Congress, said the eventual fate of the adolescent lied on the capacity of the country to make nice positions, adding that: "An extraordinary future for our childhood won't occur by some coincidence and we want to get ready for their future."
Source:Jhuxtelloitech.com