Ghana lacks skilled manpower - Professor Dzidonu

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obaa 12 years ago

Technological innovation grows the economy. The simple production possibilities curve in economics tells us this. Israel has adopted this approach and the results are obvious in that country.

Technological innovation grows the economy. The simple production possibilities curve in economics tells us this. Israel has adopted this approach and the results are obvious in that country.
Zoobie-Zoobie 12 years ago

That is part of the problem with four years of existence

That is part of the problem with four years of existence
KOFI - USA 12 years ago

WITH FOUR YEARS AND PRODUCING 10 PHD HOLDERS.....HMMMM. WE ARE DISHING OUT DEGREES THAT DO NOT MEAN ANYTHING. I AM SURE THESE PHDs WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED ANYWHERE EXCEPT IN GHANA. MOST PHD PROGRAMS HERE IN THE USA TAKE MORE ...
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WITH FOUR YEARS AND PRODUCING 10 PHD HOLDERS.....HMMMM. WE ARE DISHING OUT DEGREES THAT DO NOT MEAN ANYTHING. I AM SURE THESE PHDs WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED ANYWHERE EXCEPT IN GHANA. MOST PHD PROGRAMS HERE IN THE USA TAKE MORE THAN FOUR YEARS PLUS DISSERTATION AND RESEARCH. THIS IS A SHAM TO ME.
BAAKO 12 years ago

the problem is, we believe one has to be educated to have skills to do something. there are so many people with good skills, but they have been left out because there are un educated. in Ghana, we believe in higher education ...
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the problem is, we believe one has to be educated to have skills to do something. there are so many people with good skills, but they have been left out because there are un educated. in Ghana, we believe in higher education rather than skills, look at how many PhDs we have, yet, we still relaying on other countries for simple technology. that tells us that our educational system is useless. look at Bill Gate, he doesn't have higher education, but invented the Microsoft.
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

The depth of education varies with the field of endeavor.

Obviously, if you want to be a particle physicist devoting all your life using advanced mathematics to figure out what atoms are made of, you would need plenty of ...
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The depth of education varies with the field of endeavor.

Obviously, if you want to be a particle physicist devoting all your life using advanced mathematics to figure out what atoms are made of, you would need plenty of FORMAL education.
That field is very interdisciplinary and requires PLENTY of background knowledge and skills.

But as shown in a movie posted below ("A Very Inspiring Story") in which a homeless man in New York was taught computer programming such that he could create an app for smart phones within 3 months, different fields have different needs of skills and levels of formal education.

Some areas require years of formal education; others just a brief period of intense training.

At the end of the day, what matters is what you are CAPABLE of accomplishing.
kwame Black 12 years ago

of course formal education is good, so is skills development. the point now is transforming formal education into skills. this can be done by practicalizing our thinking, it is possible.

of course formal education is good, so is skills development. the point now is transforming formal education into skills. this can be done by practicalizing our thinking, it is possible.
NANA USED BAWUMIA 12 years ago

It is a correct assertion. Ghanaian academic and skills training institutions should and must shift from theory-based approach to practical-based approach of teaching in all practical disciplines. The KNUST seems to have fail ...
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It is a correct assertion. Ghanaian academic and skills training institutions should and must shift from theory-based approach to practical-based approach of teaching in all practical disciplines. The KNUST seems to have failed in achieving the goals set out by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. This premier university has not produced technological and scientific inventors and builders that it was established for. The AIT may succeed where the KNUST failed. God bless the AIT to succeed.
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

Yes, it is very easy to be confused about the theoretical versus the practical, as if often the case. What we should be clamoring for is the APPLICATION of theory. Once a student learns about the Bernoulli Theory, we should e ...
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Yes, it is very easy to be confused about the theoretical versus the practical, as if often the case. What we should be clamoring for is the APPLICATION of theory. Once a student learns about the Bernoulli Theory, we should expect the design of flying machines!
Theory and Practice are TIGHTLY linked, especially in today's world, which is moving away from mechanical devices to SMART contraptions. And "smart" often means embedded software systems, some relying even on artificial intelligence. Theories constitute the fertile soil in which ideas germinate into practical products.
For instance, you can teach a student how to construct a lock for a car's door. But it would take a THOROUGH understanding of RFID technology for a student to design a door opened by a remote electronic key.

Our students should be well-grounded in modern engineering theories, but should be groomed in how to APPLY those theories into the designing and creation of innovative devices.
NAKED 12 years ago

The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get ...
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The truth about what is really going on in Mali and with AFRICOM and NATO countries, especially France is a little bit like a geopolitical “Victoria’s Secret”—what you think you see is definitely not what you will get.

We are being told repeatedly in recent months that something supposedly calling itself Al Qaeda—the organization officially charged by the US Government as responsible for pulverizing three towers of the World Trade Center and blowing a gaping hole in the side of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001—has regrouped.

According to the popular media account and statements of various NATO member country government officials, the original group of the late Osama bin Laden, holed up we are supposed to believe somewhere in the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, has apparently adopted a modern business model and is handing out Al Qaeda official franchises in a style something like a ‘McDonalds of Terrorism,’ from Al Qaeda in Iraq to Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in Libya and now Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Maghreb.

I’ve even heard reports that a new Al Qaeda “official” franchise has just been given, bizarre as it sounds, to something called DRCCAQ or Democratic Republic of Congo Christian (sic) Al Qaeda. [7] Now that’s a stretch which reminds one of an equally bizarre sect called Jews for Jesus created back in the hippie days of the Vietnam War era. Can it be that the architects of all these murky groups have so little imagination?

If we are to believe the official story, the group being blamed in Mali for most all the trouble is Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM for short). The murky AQIM itself is actually a product of several behind-the-scenes workings. Originally it was based in Algeria across the border from Mali and called itself the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC according to its French name).

In 2006 Al Qaeda’s head guru in absence of Osama bin Laden, Egyptian jihadist Ayman al-Zawahiri, publicly announced the granting to the Algerian GSPC the Al Qaeda franchise. The name was changed to Al-Qaeda-in-the Islamic-Mahgreb and Algerian counter-terror operations pushed them in the past two years over the desert border into northern Mali. AQIM reportedly is little more than a well-armed criminal band that gets its money from running South American cocaine from Africa into Europe, or from arms dealing and human trafficking. [8]

A year later, in 2007, the enterprising al-Zawahiri added another building block to his Al Qaeda chain of thugs when he officially announced the merger between the Libyan LIFG and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb (AQIM).

The LIFG or Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, was formed by a Libyan-born jihadist named Abdelhakim Belhaj. Belhaj was trained by the CIA as part of the US-financed Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the 1980s alongside another CIA trainee then named Osama bin Laden. In essence, as the journalist Pepe Escobar notes, “for all practical purposes, since then, LIFG/AQIM have been one and the same – and Belhaj was/is its emir.” [9]

That becomes even more interesting when we find that Belhaj’s men – who, as Escobar writes, were at the forefront of a militia of Berbers from the mountains southwest of Tripoli, the so-called Tripoli Brigade—were trained in secret for two months by US Special Forces. [10]

LIFG played a key role in the US and French-backed toppling of Libya’s Qaddafi, turning Libya today into what one observer describes as the “world’s largest open air arms bazaar.” Those arms are reportedly flooding from Benghazi to Mali and other various hotspot targets of destabilization, including, according to what was suggested at the recent US Senate Foreign Relations testimony of outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by the boatload from Libya to Turkey where they were being channeled into the various foreign terrorist insurgents sent into Syria to fuel the destruction of Syria. [11]

Now what does this unusual conglomerate globalized terror organization, LIFG-GPSC-AQIM intend in Mali and beyond, and how does that suit AFRICOM and French aims?
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

"... ICT that rules the world of today..."

In actual fact, it is SOFTWARE ruling the world, from cellphones to cars, to MRI machines, even though all aspects of computer science and ICT are very important.

And the Asian ...
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"... ICT that rules the world of today..."

In actual fact, it is SOFTWARE ruling the world, from cellphones to cars, to MRI machines, even though all aspects of computer science and ICT are very important.

And the Asians have taken note: today, almost EIGHTY percent of all computer programmers in the US are either Indian or Chinese, many of them on H1-B visas.

Today, computer programming is MANDATORY in elementary schools in China.

We need a new crop of young Ghanaian students very adept at writing computer code. And it should start in the high school, with Python as a standard language (it is free, and is the staple language at even MIT).

Of course, getting thousands of Python instructors would be an initial problem. The tertiary institutions should assume the mantle in this regard.

We have already witnessed the POTENTIAL of Ghanaian youngsters in the software arena with mPedigree and other Ghanaian-developped apps succeeding on the international scene.

Leaders in the field like Chinery-Hesse of SoftTribe should be tapped to help shape an effective educational strategy.

Diasporans should also take advantage and return to Ghana to set up coding academies all over the place.

Whether we like or not, SOFTWARE is the future, in almost every aspect of our lives.

Tekonline.org 12 years ago

Gates, Zuckerberg: Kids, learn to code
Brandon Griggs, CNN

By Brandon Griggs, CNN
updated 5:48 PM EST, Thu March 7, 2013 | Filed under: Innovations

(CNN) -- Hey kids! Forget trying to become a doctor or rapper or a f ...
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Gates, Zuckerberg: Kids, learn to code
Brandon Griggs, CNN

By Brandon Griggs, CNN
updated 5:48 PM EST, Thu March 7, 2013 | Filed under: Innovations

(CNN) -- Hey kids! Forget trying to become a doctor or rapper or a football star, not to mention all the teasing you may get in school for being a nerd -- computers are where it's at.
That's one message of a new video in which Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and other tech execs urge young people to learn computer programming.
"Learning how to program didn't start off with wanting to learn all of computer science or trying to master this discipline or anything like that," Zuckerberg says. "It started off because I wanted to do this one simple thing -- I wanted to make something that was fun for myself and my sisters."
Gates says, "I was 13 when I first got access to a computer. I wrote a program to play tick-tack-toe."
Gates: Immigration laws hurt smart talent Zuckerberg: Step forward for humanity
The five-minute clip, called "What Most Schools Don't Teach," was posted online Tuesday by Code.org, a new nonprofit foundation that seeks to cultivate computer science in U.S. school curricula. The foundation argues there is a worldwide shortage of computer programmers but that only 1 in 10 schools in America teach kids how to code.
"Our policy (at Facebook) is literally to hire as many talented engineers as we can find," Zuckerberg says. "The whole limit in the system is that there aren't enough people who are trained and have these skills today."
The Facebook CEO appears to be passionate about supporting technology and science education. Last week Zuckerberg and a handful of other tech execs announced a $3 million annual prize for researchers doing life-saving work, saying he hoped it would inspire future scientists.
The "What Most Schools Don't Teach" clip tries to make coding seem accessible and easy for anyone with a basic understanding of math.
"Addition, subtraction, that's about it," Gates says with a smile.
"It's really not unlike playing an instrument, or playing a sport," says Drew Houston, who created file-sharing site Dropbox. "Even if you want to become a race-car driver, or play baseball, or, you know, build a house -- all of these things have been turned upside down by software."
Also featured in the video are musician Will.i.am and NBA star Chris Bosh, both of whom have taken coding classes.
There's been much recent hand-wringing in Silicon Valley about how the United States is lagging behind other countries in developing future software engineers. Code.org claims that computer-programming jobs are growing at twice the U.S. national average while less than 2.4% of college students graduate with degrees in computer science -- less than 10 years ago.
The video also emphasizes the perks and casual vibe of working at a deep-pocketed tech company, where employees get free food, work barefoot and skateboard around the office.
"The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future," says Gabe Newell, co-founder of video game developer Valve. "You're going to look like you have magic powers compared to everybody else."
The clip already has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube. Code.org hopes to get it shown in schools across the country.
EZEKIEL 12 years ago

Don't FORGET the polytechnics......we NEED QUALIFIED ARTISANS......masons,carpenters,electricians etc. too!! NOT ONLY MBAs,MScs,PhDs
who don't do ANYTHING after and RELAX in A/C offices!!!!
We NEED PRACTICALLY TRAINED PEOPL ...
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Don't FORGET the polytechnics......we NEED QUALIFIED ARTISANS......masons,carpenters,electricians etc. too!! NOT ONLY MBAs,MScs,PhDs
who don't do ANYTHING after and RELAX in A/C offices!!!!
We NEED PRACTICALLY TRAINED PEOPLE....PROBLEM SOLVING eg. HOW NOT TO CONSTRUCT OPEN GUTTERS in AD 21St. Century!!
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

Certainly, our diligent artisans have a place in any technological era.

BUT the pace of sophistication is quite frightening. Auto mechanics in even America are complaining about that pace, and are being retrained ANNUALLY! ...
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Certainly, our diligent artisans have a place in any technological era.

BUT the pace of sophistication is quite frightening. Auto mechanics in even America are complaining about that pace, and are being retrained ANNUALLY!

We need, more that ever, a highly knowledgeable workforce to meet the demands of TODAY'S world, a world of technological sophistication, where even street lamps (LED-powered) are being made smart enough to guide a fire truck to a burning house!

The world is becoming less and less mechanical, and "smarter" and "smarter" as embedded software technology invades devices.

All that calls for a much higher level of engineering training. We don't have much choice.
EZEKIEL 12 years ago

Yes, you also have points! I agree.

Yes, you also have points! I agree.
OBAA NYANSANI 12 years ago

Lol, funny that's the first game I learnt to program in Java too. I love Programming!

Lol, funny that's the first game I learnt to program in Java too. I love Programming!
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

..and so much FUN too!

..and so much FUN too!
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc&feature=player_embedded

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc&feature=player_embedded
OBAA NYANSANI 12 years ago

... which is the most widely-used and platform independent language. With need a language that can capitalize on the growth in the internet.

... which is the most widely-used and platform independent language. With need a language that can capitalize on the growth in the internet.
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

Python, which presents both procedural and object-oriented approaches to programming, is ideally suited as a FIRST step in software education.

You are quite right about object-oriented programming (like JAVA, RUBY, ANDROID ...
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Python, which presents both procedural and object-oriented approaches to programming, is ideally suited as a FIRST step in software education.

You are quite right about object-oriented programming (like JAVA, RUBY, ANDROID, and Objective-C) being the ultimate goal.
MIT recently made Python the BEGINNING language (CS-600).
Most US high schools offer Python in the freshman and sophomore years, as a prerequisite to Java in the junior and senior years.
zomabi 12 years ago

THE CAUSE OF POVERTY IN GHANA IS BECAUSE THE COUNTRY IN REALITY IS NOT PRODUCTIVE. 25 MILLION PEOPLE WITH 42BILLION DOLLAR GDP(IMF) GIVES A PER CAPITA INCOME OF JUST A LITTLE OF OVER $1000. COMPARE THAT TO SINGAPORE WITH A P ...
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THE CAUSE OF POVERTY IN GHANA IS BECAUSE THE COUNTRY IN REALITY IS NOT PRODUCTIVE. 25 MILLION PEOPLE WITH 42BILLION DOLLAR GDP(IMF) GIVES A PER CAPITA INCOME OF JUST A LITTLE OF OVER $1000. COMPARE THAT TO SINGAPORE WITH A POULATION OF ABOUT 5 MILLION WITH A GDP OF 330 BILLION GIVING A PER CAPITA INCOME OF $62,000. IN GHANA TOO MUCH EMPHASIS ON ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GHANA NOT ATTRACTING TOP CLASS INVESTMENT THAT WILL HELP TRANSFORM THE ECONOMY. GOVT WILL HAVE TO WAKE UP FROM ITS SLUMBER AND EMBARK ON RADICAL EDUCATIONAL REFORMS AIMED AT PRODUCING SCIENTISTS, TECHNOLOGISTS AND TECHNOCAL INNOVATORS. TOO MANY PRIESTS, LAWYERS, POLITICAL SCIENTISTS, ECONOMISTS ETC ALL HANKERING FOR WHITE COLLAR JOBS.

non-colonial or plantation mentality 12 years ago

money sent into it via Money Gram and Western Union by individuals, living outside of Africa, whom help local Ghanaians stay financially afloat!

All of black Africa needs to realize combining 4 things can end poverty world ...
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money sent into it via Money Gram and Western Union by individuals, living outside of Africa, whom help local Ghanaians stay financially afloat!

All of black Africa needs to realize combining 4 things can end poverty worldwide...Africa included:

1.Global Networking
2.Free internet access
3. Getting a FINANCIAL EDUCATION as individuals
4. Love and respect for ALL of humanity

Such is all one needs, not more PhDs!
kwame Black 12 years ago

you have it right.

you have it right.
Godfried 12 years ago

It is a mistake to believe that technical innovations including IT is determinative of a countries development. In point of fact social innovations particularly social institutions that drive technical innovations are more im ...
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It is a mistake to believe that technical innovations including IT is determinative of a countries development. In point of fact social innovations particularly social institutions that drive technical innovations are more important. In point of fact, I know of know country where IT, as important as it, is the major creator of jobs. Hence, the country should encourage development of skills that would result in job creation
Ghana 1st 12 years ago

The skills and manpower training must be the national target to let the recent youth acquired some practical skills eased most of unemployment situation in Ghana as at now.Good move it must continue to get more.

The skills and manpower training must be the national target to let the recent youth acquired some practical skills eased most of unemployment situation in Ghana as at now.Good move it must continue to get more.
RastafaraI 12 years ago

its going to make the situation worse...investigate the founders of this university...their degrees may be fake too

its going to make the situation worse...investigate the founders of this university...their degrees may be fake too
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/the-men-behind-trees-for-cars-app-tell-their-story-170333561.html

news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/the-men-behind-trees-for-cars-app-tell-their-story-170333561.html
RastafaraI 12 years ago

What research are these guys doing in Accra?....they will produce incompetent PhD's and other degree holders who cannot compete with their peers from outside and will only lower the brand of Ghana degrees...KNUST needs to be ...
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What research are these guys doing in Accra?....they will produce incompetent PhD's and other degree holders who cannot compete with their peers from outside and will only lower the brand of Ghana degrees...KNUST needs to be supported and strengthened...Ghana has too many universities as it is and does not need new ones. Who gives accreditation to all these schools? They should consider the capacity of the economy to absorb these graduates or professional? I remember in the 80's some programs at KNUST such architecture admitted limited number of candidates in consideration of the capacity market place to absorb these graduates..Ghana seems to be mass producing graduates now without consideration of quality...They should also consider how many Universities already exist in the system that can absorb those who QUALIFY through the standardized exams. If there are not enough qualified students for these new University you have admit unqualified candidates for the programs they come out as weak graduates...It should not be about MONEY alone...
USMAN 12 years ago

This is what I have been sayingfrom time immemorial, that the crop of university graduates we have are not cut out for any job after school making them useless. Almost all university graduates in Ghana are educated as scholar ...
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This is what I have been sayingfrom time immemorial, that the crop of university graduates we have are not cut out for any job after school making them useless. Almost all university graduates in Ghana are educated as scholars who would need about 7 to 10 years experience on a job before they could acquire any meaningful skill. The usual assumption is that, as university graduates, they could always fit into any job hence they should be taught general philosophy. The fact is that general education(philosophy) is not efficient in preparing students for the job market as espoused by David Kolb the famous American theorist of the experiential learning fame. According David Kolb, training is different from education and that training is more efficient in solving a specific problem than education. If we ,as a country, have identified unemployment as a major issue then we must resort to the training of our youth in specialized skills rather the current long winding and confused educational system we are imposing on the youth. May God bless Ghana.
Tekonline.org 12 years ago

You quoted:
"... training is different from education and that training is more efficient in solving a specific problem than education..."

In reality, training doesn't always refer to PHYSICAL activity. One can be trained ...
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You quoted:
"... training is different from education and that training is more efficient in solving a specific problem than education..."

In reality, training doesn't always refer to PHYSICAL activity. One can be trained how to think, how to solve a mathemathical problem, how to win a case in court, how to imagine creatively, etc.

And of course, one would not need "education" to construct a wooden table. One would only need to be trained how to saw, use the chisel, hammer a nail, etc.

Similarly, one can be trained how to use a surgical knife to cut tissue, BUT to remove tumor from the brain, one would need YEARS of education about which role played by every little part of the brain, and the names and location of every blood vessel, parts of the tissue they serve, vital regions of the organ, etc.

Infact, true education encompasses almost everything: acquisition of knowledge, skills, concepts, procedures, methods, and deep insights into problems.
Private Eye 12 years ago

Do you see how absurd your own contrived definition? You are maintaining that "solving a mathemathical problem" does not involve physical activity? Let's not get hang up on "technicalities" as typical of Ghanaians, instead of ...
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Do you see how absurd your own contrived definition? You are maintaining that "solving a mathemathical problem" does not involve physical activity? Let's not get hang up on "technicalities" as typical of Ghanaians, instead of "thinking".

JAK The Ripper 12 years ago

He stated: 'Does not ALWAYS involve physical activity...'

The thinking effort/cognitive or mental pictures formed in the mind (images) precede the WRITING down or typing (the physical)of figures or letters, formulae or eq ...
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He stated: 'Does not ALWAYS involve physical activity...'

The thinking effort/cognitive or mental pictures formed in the mind (images) precede the WRITING down or typing (the physical)of figures or letters, formulae or equations etc etc...

I hope Tekonline agrees with what I've tried to interpret from his posting is what he really meant...
T'pau 12 years ago

The word Education is sometimes interchanged with Training but not the other way round. For example someone who is educated in medicine can be referred to as: "a doctor by training".

The word Education is sometimes interchanged with Training but not the other way round. For example someone who is educated in medicine can be referred to as: "a doctor by training".
unclefi 12 years ago

I keep saying that Ghanaians are not
are very intelligent.

I keep saying that Ghanaians are not
are very intelligent.
Private Eye 12 years ago

The Registrar of AIT, Mr. Osei-Boakye states that "since its inception in 2009 had produced almost 10 PhD holders soon to be graduated". What does that mean? He seriously implies that in 4 years since AIT's inception it is gr ...
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The Registrar of AIT, Mr. Osei-Boakye states that "since its inception in 2009 had produced almost 10 PhD holders soon to be graduated". What does that mean? He seriously implies that in 4 years since AIT's inception it is graduating PHD's? How many undergraduates have they produced? This dubious Professor Dzidonu, is he a "Full Professor" ?
GC/USA 12 years ago

IT IS NOT LACK OF INTELLIGENT RATHER LAZINESS; 10 AM TO 3 PM WORKERS, LACK OF CONTINUOUS EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT ONCE THE DEGREE IS OBTAINED. MOST OF THE BEST BRAIN ARE OVERSEAS WHERE YOU EARN YOUR INCOME BY LONG HOURS AND CHAL ...
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IT IS NOT LACK OF INTELLIGENT RATHER LAZINESS; 10 AM TO 3 PM WORKERS, LACK OF CONTINUOUS EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT ONCE THE DEGREE IS OBTAINED. MOST OF THE BEST BRAIN ARE OVERSEAS WHERE YOU EARN YOUR INCOME BY LONG HOURS AND CHALLENGED TO IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS. WHEN YOU LACK THE EXPERTS YOU IMPORT UNTIL YOU PRODUCE YOUR OWN AND STOP THE REVERSED RACISM THAT THE BLACK MAN CAN DO-- WHAT!! CHASE WOMEN AND ALCOHOL.
GC/USA 12 years ago

seeking should read sinking

seeking should read sinking
abuzzo 12 years ago

STOP THE NONSENSE

STOP THE NONSENSE
nunana 12 years ago

I agree that the country needs skilled manpower. In the meantime industry is not making used of the skills there is.
Our research institutions have come out with so many innovations and findings but the problem is industry ...
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I agree that the country needs skilled manpower. In the meantime industry is not making used of the skills there is.
Our research institutions have come out with so many innovations and findings but the problem is industry is not taking advantage of those innovations and findings to enhance their production capacity where those skills that are available could be engaged and retrained. Again industry should be seen to be working closely with those institutions. The country is rich in both human and natural rsources but it looks like it is underutilised. Ghanaians should also learn to form partnerships 2-3 people
coming together form companies and so oon. The financial instutitions should be there to give all the support and advice. The government should also take the political decision to BAN outright products we have comparative advantage of and can produce locally and to stop the crave for substandard imported items.
Kk3 12 years ago

The skills are are available both within and in the diaspora.

The skills are are available both within and in the diaspora.
HABLUTA SENYO 12 years ago

THOSE OLD NIKA-NIKA INDUSTRIAL MACHINES DO NOT WORK IN 21ST CENTURY NO MORE
THAT IS WHY GHANA HAVE TO WAKE UP

THOSE OLD NIKA-NIKA INDUSTRIAL MACHINES DO NOT WORK IN 21ST CENTURY NO MORE
THAT IS WHY GHANA HAVE TO WAKE UP
Nono 12 years ago

THE IDEA IS GOOD BUT THE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION OPTION SHOULD BE EXCLUDED, BECAUSE MOST GHANAINS LIKE TO STUDY BUSINESS AND NOTHING ELSE. The University degrees should be solely offered in the following only: BSc, BEng, ...
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THE IDEA IS GOOD BUT THE BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION OPTION SHOULD BE EXCLUDED, BECAUSE MOST GHANAINS LIKE TO STUDY BUSINESS AND NOTHING ELSE. The University degrees should be solely offered in the following only: BSc, BEng, MSc, PhD programs in Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Technology in other to achieved its objective
Wuorfei 12 years ago

Where is the infrastructure to be run by the skilled labor?

Where is the infrastructure to be run by the skilled labor?
Technocrat-USA 12 years ago

in respond to professor Dzidonu,
it is factual that Africa Awakes with the notion.The dark ages are over!!! The rules of life and the game has changed, Africa must develop a different mental faculty if it’s to survive the ...
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in respond to professor Dzidonu,
it is factual that Africa Awakes with the notion.The dark ages are over!!! The rules of life and the game has changed, Africa must develop a different mental faculty if it’s to survive the highly classified Technological influence hovering over this modern world!
Police needs better technology to prevent crime.
Problem Statement - Retrogression high phenomenal in the African nations
after 27 years of traveling around the world visiting many nations. God has privilege me to see the 21st century paradigm shift in innovation Technology!
The dark ages are over. Africa needs to be awakening to tap into the rich mineral resources that our creator Lord God Almighty had bless them with. The sun , the wind , the air , the land , the timber , the iron ore ,the oil .etc
poverty , retrogression and underdevelopment , which has led to the mass exodus
of the African community to the developed world or the western world to seek green pastures or a better life .this has not brought progression nor benefit to the African nations , Africa is still wobbling in abstract poverty . We have the sun in abundance but can’t provide electricity for our people. The wind blows across the Sahara desert powerfully we can’t utilized it to produce electricity. Waiting for the white man.
Gospeldroid Tech Youth Africa
There is no shortcut to development Africa must work harder be more Patriots be
There is no shortcut to development Africa must work harder be more Patriots be honest and faithful and desire to move the continent forward. For the next generation to live a better life. Nobody would develop Africa except the Africans
The solution to the problem we need to be more patriotic citizen’s nation focus community focus. We need to developed mind site.
We need new innovations in the technological atmosphere, we come together to focus on community and nation development. Use our brains for innovation development. Tap into the expertise of
technocrats, motivate the young generation, with encouragements, stimulation, the necessary Impetus, in the realm of technology. Self should die.
l have personal written to all the leading politicians inculding the now
seating president. now bother to react.
time is running faster than we think
in this 21st century
Kwame 12 years ago

These professors do not know the human resources that this country has in terms of technology and must stop their ugly noises. For instance with the view of misleading members of the public who are unaware of what mechanical ...
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These professors do not know the human resources that this country has in terms of technology and must stop their ugly noises. For instance with the view of misleading members of the public who are unaware of what mechanical engineering contain some people have set up a waste management university, when material management is part and parcel of the syllabus of any mechanical engineering faculty.
That university should have been named material management university. When some of our professors talk you are alarmed that this are the people you put your children in trust.

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