THE STUBBORN TOPIC OF FALSELY BELIEVING THAT THE UNIVERSITIES EXIST TO TRAIN EVERY STUDENT TO BE READY FOR THEIR JOBS:

THE STUBBORN TOPIC OF FALSELY BELIEVING THAT THE UNIVERSITIES EXIST TO TRAIN EVERY STUDENT TO BE READY FOR THEIR JOBS:

This event advertised in the poster is continuing to trumpet the fallacy that universities are supposed to prepare every student for their job. 

I don't have the time. I would have gone to the venue to tell them off. Universities are not built to train students to fit every situation outside the University. 

That is delusional thinking. 

Every company must operate its own "University" and install a layer of company specific capacity building program to make the employees ready to perform at the top level. 

Let me repeat. 

Universities are not designed to train students to fit into every situation outside the University. 

Those Universities that can go that extra mile in some selected programs have done so through deliberate partnerships with some companies to do it.

 How does an English language department train a student to specifically write every novel in their life time. Or a journalism school on how write every type of report or Law school to win every case. They simply do some and you go and do the rest. 

Education is about Igniting the fire not filling a bucket. Training outcome improvements cost money that is why Ashesi students pay 100,000 GHS a year and students of Public Universities of Ghana pay some 1500 GHS a year while expecting 1,500,000 GHS package. 

Wake from that fakeness. 

And pay the price.

OF QUALITY MANPOWER: 

That means the workplace must build its tentacles along the educational pathway. From cradle to the boardroom.

 The lazy approach of waiting at the end of long winding conveyor belt to catch the goose that lays the golden eggs is not only delusional but stupid.

 Gold cost money and the same cannot be obtained in the quagmire of tax evaders and fraudsters who wish the state dead while the same state to groom the golden egg laying geese. 

 The problem of the underperformance of employees is a cultural problem. Educational system is a small segment of the culture. Religious activities takes 85% of the Ghanaian culture. 

Start your business with an educational program for your ideal employee and build on from there. Don’t be lazy. #grandmarshallvision #zeitgeistgh

Every business must start with a training program. 

THE program above by Fidelity Bank is well done and way to go. Every business must start with a training program. The era of complaining about Universities not preparing students for the workplace stop and yield it's place to company specific training programs.

By the way the Universities know how to do that type of job for some workers brigades like Teachers, Nurses, Ophthalmologists, Pharmacists, Physicians, Physician Assistants, etc where there is high national demand for numbers of such professionals. 

For these unique situations additional specific arrangements are made and the standards of training for hundreds of the students follow the same format. All other areas of work, especially work in small private enterprises, that arrangement needs to be made on the side of the businesses due to their high diversity and low numbers involved.

Those who continue to argue from the position of ignorance:

Let's be clear the gap is a cultural and resource gap. The resources provided to Universities in Ghana do not qualify them to be Universities. All the public universities in Ghana are bankrupt. 

So you can organize the discussions for decades if the resources required to improve the quality of education is not provided. And the learning culture of the students do not change from the excessive focus on religious activities and be more effective on their own intellectual growth, these discussions will continue to be futile.

TOO much politics and NO LEADERSHIP

A few years ago the President {Akufo Addo}, at an event at the University made the same comments about preparing students to be ready for industry. While being aware of the poor funding situation and the many other issues. 

The same President failed to implement the Ghana Research Fund, after the bill was passed by Parliament with strong campaigning by some us. What we need is specific projects with all the resources needed to create the additional desired value. 

Toyota Ghana recently built a wonderful facility for the Engineering School. That is the way to go. That is the discussion we need. On how to create facilities and programs that prepare students using industrial technology and equipment.

Separating Practical Issues from Unrealistic Expectations

The basic point is not about the essentiality of refinement of programs. That is easy, what is hard is getting the resources. The resources questions come before the campaign for such programs. 

The facts are known on how expensive research is and how there is almost nothing available in Ghana for scientists to work with. Remember what we say in AKAN proverbs: "whatever is beautiful cost money". That is not a farfetched argument but rather a practical one. 

UG is now 70,000 versus less than 2000 faculty members. As for space it's been exceeded by 40-50%. It's all about resources, resources, resources. The key position here doesn't cover those teaching 20 years old concepts. My Biochemistry materials are updated every year by design.