High Graduate Unemployment In Ghana: A Ticking Time Bomb

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• Kasamafo 10 years ago

  And half the population of Ghana are still illiterate.

  And half the population of Ghana are still illiterate.

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• John,Tema 10 years ago

  Are we producing more than the market demands or we're not meeting the requirements of the market?

  Are we producing more than the market demands or we're not meeting the requirements of the market?

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• NIMA YOUTH FORUM 10 years ago

  MASTER THE GUY HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD I SUPPOSED YOU ARE GRADUATE, EVEN IF THE UNIVERSITIES AND POLY PRODUCE LESS THERE OTHER BACK LOG OF UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE SO THESE TURN OUT TO BE MORE HANDS CHAS ...
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  MASTER THE GUY HIT THE NAIL RIGHT ON THE HEAD I SUPPOSED YOU ARE GRADUATE, EVEN IF THE UNIVERSITIES AND POLY PRODUCE LESS THERE OTHER BACK LOG OF UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE SO THESE TURN OUT TO BE MORE HANDS CHASING FOR JOB, JUST YESTERDAY MY BROTHER WAS LAYOFF FROM WORK

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• Abubaar M. M. Azindoo 10 years ago

  Another great piece beautified by good language, exellent analysis, and coherent reasoning! I am particularly impressed by the well couched rhethorical questions that bring related issues together to advance a common argument ...
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  Another great piece beautified by good language, exellent analysis, and coherent reasoning! I am particularly impressed by the well couched rhethorical questions that bring related issues together to advance a common argument in an organized and logical fashion on a relevant theme- the monsterous Graduate Unemployment.
  
  It is true that you do not have statistics to substantiate claims, but sometimes, when the phenomena are conspicously observable, empirical data are hardly needed. All claims made in the piece are self-proven to all objective minds, and therefore lack of empirical data cannot rob the piece of its veracity, plausibility, and beauty. Keep the good work, lovely brother Charles.

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• Charles Lwanga Siewobr 10 years ago

  Thanks very much for the endorsement, Prof Azindoo. I am still learning from you. Your lessons have been very useful. Thanks once again, Prof.

  Thanks very much for the endorsement, Prof Azindoo. I am still learning from you. Your lessons have been very useful. Thanks once again, Prof.

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• Ayamga fatawu 10 years ago

  Great piece bro! May the stakeholders pay heed to this piece.

  Great piece bro! May the stakeholders pay heed to this piece.

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• 3dem 10 years ago

  in this era, common sense and experience has taught us that ghana's formal education does not create employment, it is skill training that does. so the wisest way to go now is to get the university education to help you reaso ...
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  in this era, common sense and experience has taught us that ghana's formal education does not create employment, it is skill training that does. so the wisest way to go now is to get the university education to help you reason and understand the times and trends and then learn a skill to earn you money. Thats what i did and i am not waiting for anyone to employ me.
  People get degrees in this country and their greatest aim is to sit in some office and push papers. Pushing papers does not develop a country. It is industrialization through skills that develops a country. Instead of blaming government every day for people's problems, how about people stop seeking paper-pushing jobs and get down to doing things with their hands for a change.
  
  learn to make beads, learn to sew, learn to make shoes and belts and bags.... learn to bake cakes and other pastries....learn to make juices... that is how you get yourself employed. If you are waiting to push papers, then keep dreaming!!!!

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• NIMA YOUTH FORUM 10 years ago

  your what you said is not far from the true but after spending so much in the university, then is better to for vasity and do vocation

  your what you said is not far from the true but after spending so much in the university, then is better to for vasity and do vocation

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• Tekonline.org 10 years ago

  A rather heart-rending piece.
  
  But you could accomplish far more if you all put on your thinking caps, rather than boxing gloves.
  
  The journey towards gainful employment should begin in the HIGH SCHOOL. That is where the ...
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  A rather heart-rending piece.
  
  But you could accomplish far more if you all put on your thinking caps, rather than boxing gloves.
  
  The journey towards gainful employment should begin in the HIGH SCHOOL. That is where the proper choice of coursework should count towards career planning.
  
  Furthermore, tertiary students should create a national advisory board to assist the government in formulating employment policies. Such a board should also include one or two lecturers.
  
  An advisory board would particularly be useful for high school students -- providing early career direction.
  
  The most important function of the board would be to determine: WHAT JOBS ARE IN HIGHEST DEMAND IN THE COUNTRY. What does the government need? What is industry expecting?
  
  Their research should span the public and the private sectors.
  
  You simply cannot have almost every BECE student planning to pursue university programs as Business Management when the job prospects are very poor or even non-existent.
  
  It is not hard to expect the government to stress the three vital sectors: HEALTH, AGRICULTURE, and EDUCATION. By having a dialogue with the government, other essential areas might be revealed, and the board can issue advisories to high schools accordingly, recommending certain majors for the freshmen while guiding the seniors the proper choice of programs in their varsity applications.
  
  The board should also examine global trends and predict what Ghana would most need in the next decade. For instance, should there be more emphasis on IT careers? Is Ghana ready for the digital revolution?
  
  At times, students need to take matters into their own hands, but in very INTELLIGENT ways.

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• Charles Lwanga Siewobr 10 years ago

  Thanks for the input, Tekolone.org.

  Thanks for the input, Tekolone.org.

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• Alhassan Walla 10 years ago

  You are making this irrelevant input just to pass the buck on to some phantom entities. The gist of this piece is very simple, and yet you are circumnavigating around it and finally come back to square one - no work done.
  
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  You are making this irrelevant input just to pass the buck on to some phantom entities. The gist of this piece is very simple, and yet you are circumnavigating around it and finally come back to square one - no work done.
  
  The obviously well-researched writer is saying that there are no jobs for the teeming Ghanaian graduates, whether the jobseeker is a medical doctor, nurse, pilot, engineer, IT specialist, science teacher, business management graduate or whatever. To put it succintly, there are no jobs in Ghana for jobseekers, no matter one's qualifications; no ifs, no buts, my friend. This is what this brilliant piece is about and nothing else; don't digress from it.

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• Charles Lwanga Siewobr 10 years ago

  Thanks very much, Alhassan Walla. That's precisely the situation on the ground. It doesn't matter what one studied in school. There are simply no jobs for jobseekers.

  Thanks very much, Alhassan Walla. That's precisely the situation on the ground. It doesn't matter what one studied in school. There are simply no jobs for jobseekers.

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• Tina 10 years ago

  Thumb up for you bro. You have said all

  Thumb up for you bro. You have said all

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• Torgbui Y.F. Ametepee (USA) 10 years ago

  Greetings CHARLES LWANGA SIEWOBR,
  
  I haven't even finished reading your article. Just the fact that the title of your article is so powerful, I believe we can see eye to eye.
  
  I am an African American man that has been t ...
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  Greetings CHARLES LWANGA SIEWOBR,
  
  I haven't even finished reading your article. Just the fact that the title of your article is so powerful, I believe we can see eye to eye.
  
  I am an African American man that has been to GH a few times, with stays up to a year at a time in some cases. I know one thing if I don't know anything else. Ghana has a enough immigrants into the US, by now,that through mere REFERRAL MARKETING ONLINE all local Ghanaians with such family members living in the US, should have no problem earning $1,000 per month minimum. That alone would boost Ghana's economy. All would then spill down onto fellow locals in Ghana, whom don't have relatives/extended family in the US. Creating wealth for their families too.
  
  Yes Charles, all is centered-around education but not an academic education but a FINANCIAL EDUCATION.
  
  Charles, I will email you my link to a US-based, online school for adults that provides a superior FINANCIAL EDUCATION that makes graduating from any academic education providing school look like kid's play. Can you imagine being given a $1,000 up to $10,000 check for placing ONE adult in the US into the school? An adult provided to you by a Ghanaian local doing REFERRAL MARKETING for you via his or her relatives inside the US? Then you paying that local person a fee of 10% or 20% of the income you just made from the school? Now, imagine if GH-Americans and GH folks inside of Ghana networked in such a manner? Your article would then become obsolete.
  By the way Charles, I know a few more opportunities that can help the economy in Ghana and other African countries. All we've ever needed is UNIFICATION.
  
  Thank you for this moment,
  
  Torgbui Y.F. Ametepee
  
  PS: Greetings to my folks in Ghana. Will see you there in less than a year, at the latest.
  PSS: Black Africa has never really been about or centered on ‘jobs creation’. Africa has always been about self-employment to help one’s family and extended family. Such, to me, should be the focus, it’s African. You never make enough income usually working for someone else. Here in the US, you are taxed far, far less when you are a business owner than when compared to being an employee. Such is how you build generational-wealth within one’s family/extended family.

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• Charles Lwanga Siewobr 10 years ago

  Thanks for your input but I dont get the import of your message.

  Thanks for your input but I dont get the import of your message.

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• Sophia 10 years ago

  I am soo saddened by how relevant issues are handled in this country. I hope our supposed politicians will do something about this unemployment issue. Kudos to you my brother from another mother.

  I am soo saddened by how relevant issues are handled in this country. I hope our supposed politicians will do something about this unemployment issue. Kudos to you my brother from another mother.

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• Charles Lwanga Siewobr 10 years ago

  Thanks, Sophia.

  Thanks, Sophia.

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• NIMA YOUTH FORUM 10 years ago

  is as simple as ABC, BECAUSE WE DON'T LOVE ONE ANOTHER, THOSE WHO HAVE FAMILY AT HIGH PLACES GET GOING EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE MINIMUM EDUCATION , I WAS ONCE SHORTLISTED FOR INTERVIEW IN CERTAIN COMPANY HERE IN GH ...
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  is as simple as ABC, BECAUSE WE DON'T LOVE ONE ANOTHER, THOSE WHO HAVE FAMILY AT HIGH PLACES GET GOING EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE MINIMUM EDUCATION , I WAS ONCE SHORTLISTED FOR INTERVIEW IN CERTAIN COMPANY HERE IN GHANA GUESS WHAT WERE 5 THE 4 OF US WERE TERTIARY GRADUATE THE 5 PERSON WAS JHS GRADUATE IT IS
  YOU CANT HELP BUT LUAGH WE GOT TO KNOW WHEN ONE OF US ASKED HER, SHE SAID HER FATHER IS WORKING THERE AND HE ASKED HER TO COME. IN SUCH SITUATION DO YOU THINK WE WILL BE CONSIDERED AFTER THE INTERVIEW? THE ANSWER IS BIG NO. MAY GOD HELP US ALL

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• HANS 10 years ago

  THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS THAT EMPLOYERS ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT LOW QUALITY OF GRADUATES IN GHANA. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD INVESTIGATE THE ALLEGATION THAT EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES IN VARIOUS FORMS IN OUR HIGHER INSTITUTIONS CONTR ...
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  THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS THAT EMPLOYERS ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT LOW QUALITY OF GRADUATES IN GHANA. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD INVESTIGATE THE ALLEGATION THAT EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES IN VARIOUS FORMS IN OUR HIGHER INSTITUTIONS CONTRIBUTE TO THE LOW QUALITY OF GRADUATES FROM OUR HIGHER INSTITUTIONS.

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• NIMA YOUTH FORUM 10 years ago

  LEAKAGES

  LEAKAGES

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• PHILIP AMOAKO ANING 10 years ago

  They are still burnt on promoting education, knowing very well that after school, there is no job for. where I completed my national service there are no permanent staff at the hospital, they rely on service personal year by ...
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  They are still burnt on promoting education, knowing very well that after school, there is no job for. where I completed my national service there are no permanent staff at the hospital, they rely on service personal year by year to work ,due to this there is no consistent and there is consistent decline in their improvement as a hospital.

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