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160,000 failed JSS graduates
drop out of school placement for senior high
Kumasi, Oct 5, Ghanadot/GNA - The fate of nearly 160,000
junior high school graduates who took part in the recent
Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) have been
thrown into jeopardy after they failed in the majority of
the subjects they wrote to qualify them for placement into
senior high school.
Nana Akomea, Minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment who
said this in Kumasi on Friday, attributed the students'
precarious situation to the poor structuring of the moribund
JSS concept that failed to make provision for continuing
training programmes for students who failed in the BECE.
"For now we can not guarantee the future of these students
as government is yet to commence the apprenticeship training
programme made available under the New Education Reforms."
Nana Akomea was speaking was speaking on the topic, "Impact
of Technical Education on Our Socio-Economic Development",
as part of the Centenary Anniversary Lectures of the Ashanti
Regional branch of the Old Boys' Association of the Ghana
Secondary Technical School (GSTS).
The Minister identified lack of entrepreneurship training
courses for students at the secondary and tertiary levels as
the major cause for the high unemployment rate among the
youth.
The unavailability of such courses, he said, had resulted in
a situation where most students could not put into practice
what they had learnt at school because they lacked the
technical skills and know-how to start their own businesses
and looked up to government for non-existent jobs.
Nana Akomea appealed to the authorities of secondary and
tertiary institutions to resolve to fashion out
entrepreneurial skill training programmes to help students
to be self-reliant after graduation.
Professor Kwesi Andam, immediate past Vice Chancellor of the
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, advised
the youth to channel their energies towards profitable
ventures for national development.
GNA
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