GIL positions itself to create income generation avenues

Kumasi, July 15, GNA - Dr John Rex Amusu Gadekpo, Director of the Ghana Institute of Languages, (GIL) has said the institute would do more to mobilize revenue to complement receipts from the government and foreign sources.

"Given our strategic location at the interface of inter-personal, inter-institutional and international communication skills, we should be able to create many avenues of income generation not only to supplement financing from the government as well as specialized help from the embassie= s whose countries' languages we teach, but also to improve the conditions o= f service for our staff."

Dr Gadekpo Who was speaking at a graduation ceremony for 589 students at the GIL, Kumasi, said the financial challenge should be embraced by all stakeholders.

The graduates comprise 482 regular and 107 special students. The Director said the institute must live up to the demands of its mission in the fast-changing globalized world by 93evolving programmes, methods and approaches, which reflect these dimensions." This would, however, require providing it with the necessary means, including adequate and frequently updated equipment and didactic material, qualified and well-motivated staff and respectable environment. Dr Gadekpo said the importance of foreign language teaching and learning could not be discounted in the 93present highly globalized geopolitical dispensation." He encouraged the graduating students to serve as good ambassadors of the GIL.