The Western system of Student visa does not favor or allow students gaining even 2-3 years experience assuming an employer would even hire you

Kwaku A. Danso, PhD

August 28, 2014

The Western system of Student visas does not favor or allow students gaining even 2-3 years experience assuming an employer would even hire you.

We may need to work with the US Congress to allow, and the President, to help change the American culture that will not hire anybody they think will not be staying with them but leaving.

Congress may enact laws that allows Training Permits and if you allows the employers to pay them slightly less than permanent residents or citizens (remember this could be a job for some Lawyers to say No! and drag this to court for years as discrimination against these student trainees unless there is a law), then we can all win.

Failing that I know some of my co-equals who graduated including Dr. Afari-Djan, who headed straight to Legon or KNUST to teach. Can you imagine leaving the classroom to classroom to teach Shroedinger’s Equations and all these theories we learned in Engineering without practice in the field?

We recently placed an advert for Software Engineer with Database experience in Ghana and during the interview one could see that these people have no clue how to apply their knowledge in the real world they live. We ended up not hiring the last applicant with real nice Resume.

Same goes for the Economists who can raise prices of petrol and kerosene and claim inflation rate will come down.

Same goes for the Statistics PhDs who claim Ghana’s unemployment rate calculated is less than that of the United States, at 5.4% (did you read that nonsense yesterday?).

Same goes for Lawyers who may graduate with JSD from Harvard or Oxford and unable to see through,, well,, I know .... they could have defended Woyome and many of the Judgment debts but for self-interest (meaning their share) failed to even file a defense for the government.

Same goes for Bankers who get their Baking Degrees in mostly UK and return home asking people to fill forms and ask for guarantors in order to open a Bank account! (I am not kidding! - my sister having to ask a customer I did not know to sign his name for me before I could open an account at Ghana Commercial Bank!!

What kind of morons are we? I think colonial governor Lord Lugard will have great concerns about this,, but then some will say  it’s not intelligence but self interest that guides most of the public behaviors of executives at home. My late grandfather agrees with Prof. Ayittey, and he used to call it gyimie!! (stupidity or lack of intelligence)


From: Kwaku A. Danso, M.Eng., PhD (Org. & Mngmt /Leadership)
(President, Ghana Leadership Union, Inc.(NGO), and Moderator, GLU Forum.)