Young graduates must be enterprising

Professor Ato Essuman, MAIN Photo: Participants in the event. Image: GABRIEL AHIABOR

Professor Ato Essuman, Director of the Institute of Education and Enterprise (IEE) at Ghana's Methodist University (MUCG), stressed the need for the country to design competency-based curricula and the needs of the labor market.

He added that currently, most higher education graduates were moving into the job market with few skills, which was also irrelevant for the industry and the industry. therefore required employers to recycle them before using them.

He felt that the skills gap in the industry could only be reduced or bridged through university-industry collaboration if jobs are to become readily available to graduates after graduation.

L & # 39; s goal

Professor Essuman delivered a speech on the sidelines of the opening ceremony of a one-week program entitled "Global Entrepreneurship Training (GET)", organized by Korea's Handong University. of the South and organized by the MUCG.

The GET program is sponsored by UNESCO and generally takes place in developing countries. The goal is to offer future world leaders in developing countries the opportunity to experience the entrepreneurial spirit and learn more.

As part of this program, students must acquire the basic skills necessary to start a new business, note the similarities or differences between their projects and those of other students in their clbad and have the opportunity to network with students. other countries for possible multinational enterprises. In the future.

Business spirit

According to Professor Essuman, what has been taught in higher education institutions could only become relevant to the economy if it were used wisely, adding that "we must produce what the labor market requires ".

He said that entrepreneurship should be taught from primary to tertiary, in order to allow the younger generation to adopt its entrepreneurial spirit.

"We need to start by introducing entrepreneurship early in primary education so that they have already gained experience and are able to start their own businesses," he said.

It is for this reason that the MUCG collaborated with Handong University to promote and train students in entrepreneurship and enable them to generate ideas and recognize business opportunities.

He added that the training program would hopefully serve as a detonator in developing countries to help solve the recurring problem of youth unemployment and graduates.

Motor force

Earlier, Handong University President Soon Heung Chang said entrepreneurship was the main driver and the driving force for developing countries to catch up with developed countries.

"The business spirit of the people was the catapult that propelled the now-developed countries into their present positions. It's the engine that supports them in the front-end position they are in, "he said.

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The GET program, he said, aimed to help younger generations of developing countries to develop the entrepreneurial spirit allowing them to change the underdevelopment discourse.

He said that since the launch of the GET program in 2008, more than 30 sessions have been held in 12 different countries on four continents around the world.

Subsequently, he said, the sessions have trained more than 3,000 graduates, some of whom are already contributing to the development of their respective countries.

He urged participants in the training program to take the sessions seriously and strive to become creative global entrepreneurs who would contribute to the development of Ghana and Africa as a whole.