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Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia challenged graduates of higher education institutions across the country to use the skills and knowledge gained to help find solutions to societal problems.
This, he said, because a good society requires a generation of citizens who are always looking for opportunities to lift up the weak and open the doors more widely to the less privileged.
Addressing the first session and 13th congregation of the University of Vocational Studies (UPSA) in Accra on Saturday, he told graduates “Mother Ghana needs you; your intellect, your knowledge, your discipline and your dedication to work.
The occasion was also used to confer an honorary doctorate on the Minister of Energy and former Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, for his outstanding and exemplary leadership as well as for promoting quality education through to the implementation of the free high school policy.
In total, the University has graduated 870 students from the School of Graduate Studies and the Faculty of Law.
They included 764 students from the School of Graduate Studies and 106 from the Faculty of Law.
There were 55 students in Master of Philosophy, 591 Master of Business Administration, 107 Master of Art and 11 Master in Insurance Risk Management.
The current student body was 18,074, including 1,687 graduate students, 13,434 undergraduates, 2,793 and graduate students.
UPSA now manages 30 programs while seven new programs are in various stages of accreditation.
Dr Bawumia took the opportunity to congratulate the school for living up to its responsibility to train and educate professionals who are serving in various capacities and institutions, thus contributing to national development.
He reiterated that education remains the core of Akufo-Addo government and that it is not only passionate but also committed to producing productive, problem-solving and innovative citizens and having the nation to heart.
This, he said, was evident in the government’s deployment of various technological and digital interventions to improve the delivery of social services, among which he mentioned the digital ownership and addressing system, credit cards. Unique Identity (Ghana-Card), the interoperable mobile money payment system. , Paperless port system and introduction of a digital portal (Ghana.Gov) for revenue collection and payment for government services, among measures to ensure financial inclusion and promote accountability and transparency in the sector public.
“Digitization is a catalyst to reach every young person with a quality education and we are determined to leave no one behind,” he said.
He also referred to the provision of free Wi-Fi in some 772 public secondary schools and 13 public universities, as well as internet connection at some education offices, among measures taken by the government to improve teaching, learning and research in schools.
For his part, UPSA Vice-Chancellor Prof. Abednego Amartey described some key achievements that the University described during the year under review.
He mentioned the enrollment of 20,247 new students at the start of the 2020/2021 academic year, the commissioning of the main auditorium, the new Astroturf, the construction of new student residences and multi-purpose twin towers. floors to serve as amphitheatres.
He said the University has relied on technology and online applications for on-campus and off-campus teaching and learning due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will continue to use it in the future. .
By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent
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