The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has stated that some public universities in Ghana are running programmes that produce unemployable graduates.
According to him, thousands of Ghanaians were graduating from universities and looking for non-existent jobs.
Adutwum stated that his organization was working with universities to focus on courses that are relevant to the nation as well as graduates.
“If you look at distance learning programmes across the length and breadth of this country, especially championed by the University of Cape Coast, so many students have been enrolled in Diploma in Education, they are being trained for jobs that do not exist,” Dr. Adutwum said on Tuesday (17 January) at the ongoing Annual New Year School at the University of Ghana, Legon.
“Thousands and thousands are graduating for jobs that do not exist, so we had a conversation with them (the universities). One favourite course that I always cite is what is called Sanitation Education but there is no course in Sanitation to be taught. Development Education, Development Education for what? UDS, Development Studies Undergraduate Programme, for what job?”
“So, yes, I am fully aware and we are engaging the universities. I think we need to focus on courses that have relevance to that particular student and to the nation.”
He added that there was a Bachelor of Arts in Education programme at a university that was supposed to prepare students for a “non-existent teaching job”.
