{"id":39449,"date":"2023-04-11T15:45:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?p=39449"},"modified":"2023-04-11T14:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T14:59:10","slug":"prof-owusu-advocates-reforms-in-the-ghanaian-education-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/prof-owusu-advocates-reforms-in-the-ghanaian-education-system","title":{"rendered":"Prof Owusu advocates reforms in the Ghanaian education system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Professor James Owusu, the Chief Executive of the Leyden Educational Consultancy, UK, has advocated reforms in the Ghanaian education system to instill \u201c21st Century skills\u201d in the youth to help solve emerging societal problems.<\/b><\/p>\n

He bemoaned the rote learning system in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, which purportedly produced substandard graduates and dragged development.<\/p>\n

The result was the overreliance on the West for solutions to local problems, a situation, he noted, must change.<\/p>\n

Prof Owusu made the call at the second Postgraduate graduation ceremony of the UK-USA Universities partnership research programme for Global Education and Training on Project Design and Community Development in Cape Coast.<\/p>\n

The programme, among other things, seeks to empower the youth to maximise their potentials for community development in the face of emerging sophisticated problems.<\/p>\n

Eight graduates were conferred with Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Social Entrepreneurship degree.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should not be dependent on western skills and technocrats coming to tell us what to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should… get to the point where we can say to ourselves that our young graduates can make an impact in our local communities. …not only solving problems but using local materials, tools and stuff to enhance development.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Scientific Animations Without Borders (SAWBO) and its local partners, Centre for Learning and Community Development (CLCD) are executing the project across Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

Prof Owusu said it was the responsibility of every PhD holder to solve problems, adding: \u201cIf you hold a PhD and you cannot solve problems, then there is a question mark with your PhD.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWith your wide range of skills based on your research programmes, these skills should be used to solve problems within our local communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us support our local communities with our skills.\u201d<\/p>\n

The high poverty rate in Sub-Sahara Africa, with Ghana no exception, was attributable to the lack of relevant skills, whereas the lack of creativity and innovation had become a major challenge, Prof Owusu said.<\/p>\n

He expressed worry over the \u201cvery low literacy rate in the Ghana,\u201d and noted that only 38 per cent of children up to age 12 could read and write.<\/p>\n

Dr Jonathan Mensah Akyeampong, the General Manager, Administration and Human Resource, SSNIT, stressed the need for graduates to use their skills to create employment to minimise the unemployment rate in West Africa.<\/p>\n

He said the project was committed to high academic quality and was working to make higher education more accessible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must be problem solvers as you go home into your communities,\u201d he said, and assured the graduates that the partners were ready to support any venture they went into.<\/p>\n

Prof Samuel Amoa-Mensa, the Country Director of CLCD-SAWBO for Sub-Sahara Africa, encouraged citizens to contact the project to benefit from the various programmes.<\/p>\n

That, he said, would enable them to acquire the relevant entrepreneurial skills to employ themselves and others.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery soon, I am going to train about 20 young people in dressmaking for free. The world is changing and you should change with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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