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UK to train professionals for Ghana’s
financial, maritime and business services
Accra, Jan. 24, GNA – Ghana and the United Kingdom (UK) have
started a programme where qualified personnel would work in
the financial, maritime and business services in the City of
London and to use the experience gained to better serve in
their home country.
The goal is to make available to UK’s international partners
the professional skills that have been an essential
underpinning to the City of London’s success as the world’s
leading international finance business centre.
Mr Alderman John Stuttard, Lord Mayor of the City of London,
said at a press conference on Wednesday that the project,
under the banner; “City of London- City of Learning’’ was to
promote the financial, maritime and business services of
both countries.
He said a huge part of UK’s economic success was based on
young people coming to London from other regions of the UK
and abroad to work in those sectors to learn and gain
experience for a short period of time.
Also included in the project was a partnership between the
University of Ghana and University of East London, which
would develop and set up higher education institutions
career services for Ghanaian graduates.
The partnership between the two universities would enable
them to share best practice from the City of London and to
foster development and capacity building in the education
sector in Ghana.
Mr Stuttard said the one year programme would help the
University of Ghana to develop an on-campus university based
careers service of international excellence that could be
replicated at other higher educational institutions.
He said over 200,000 foreign nationals worked in the
financial sector and that professional skills that were
hallmarked, “Made in the UK” were very valuable to aspiring
young people around the world because they offered a career
boost that was hard to beat.
The campaign involved 50 professional institutes, key
university business schools and training providers that
offered post-graduate and professional qualifications in
financial, maritime and business services in the UK and
overseas.
It covers 13 sectors including Accountancy; Actuarial
Science; Asset Management; Banking; Dispute Resolution;
English for Financial Services; Management, Law and
Marketing.
Mr Stuttard said those who would not get the opportunity to
learn at the City of London could go through the distance
learning programmes for professional qualifications to which
Ghana was an important market.
Dr Bruce Banoeng-Yakubu, Dean of Students of the University
of Ghana, said 7,000 students were churned out into the job
market yearly with the Counselling and Placement Centre
training about 120 students.
He said the project would help to improve on their
counselling activities and be a bridge between academia and
industry as well as serve as a synergy to propel the young
graduates with the appropriate skills for the job market.
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