The University Student Association (USAG) has
called on the Ministry of Education (MOE) and
other stakeholders in the education sector to
revise the academic curricular of tertiary
institutions in the country.
This, it said, was because the current tertiary
education curriculum, introduced about 30 years
ago, is composed of modules that have no or
little bearing on the practical and critical skills
required to excel in the job market.
This was contained in a statement read by
Joshua Nana Otu Darko, Press Relations
Secretary of USAG, at a press conference held
on Thursday, as part of USAG’s 15th Annual
Delegates’ congress.
It said the “existing curriculum, which is
supposed to fix the problems of the economy,
has made little impact on the industrial front and
ought to be revised to be abreast with changing
global demands for the various programmes of
study”.
The statement said despite the rapid expansion
of university enrolment, there were serious
concerns about the ability of universities to
produce the kind of graduates who can drive
Ghana’s economy forward.
It also expressed doubt that the current
academic standards of university education in
the country was a researched based one and
implored all major stakeholders to help assume a
different phase.
Many stakeholders, including the Association of
Ghana Industries and the Ghana Employers
Association, the statement said, have bemoaned
the poor connection between education in Ghana
and the world of work.
These stakeholders, it said, also blame the
aforementioned problem on “a grave mismatch
between what is studied in the classroom and
what is required to be delivered in the world of
work”.
The revised curriculum, it said, should be devoid
of “lot of theories that are non-applicable to
Ghana” and replaced with courses in conformity
with the country’s culture and environment.
The statement also called on Government and
other stakeholders to provide adequate funding
and the right tools and facilities for the required
practical training for the student’s development.
It also expressed worry over what it described as
the “use of the unproductive chew and pour
syndrome way to adjudge best students, still
being used by some lecturers in the tertiary
institutions.
For instance, it said, students who fell below this
so called standard and can answer questions
from their own intelligence point of view though
commiserating with the dictates of a lecturer’s
question usually failed and hardly gets the class
needed.
“If this trend is positively revisited it will strongly
deter university students from joining national
unemployment associations but rather augment
the efforts of government through innovative and
creative thinking to establish individual jobs.”
Source:citifmonline.com
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