By Bernice Bessey
The Accra Institute of Technology (AIT) has held its 10th graduation ceremony, with 196 students graduating with PhDs, PhD candidates, Master’s and Bachelor’s respectively.
Thus, eight people had PhDs, seven were PhD candidates, 23, Master’s and 158, Bachelor degrees.
Professor Clement K. Dzidonu, President of AIT, congratulated the graduands for working hard to acquire knowledge and skills in electrical and electronic engineering, computer engineering, computer science, information technology and business administration.
Addressing the graduands, he said though the country can boast of 86 tertiary institutions (70 private and 16 public universities), there was still a need to have more of such institution to accommodate the nation’s growing population.
According to him, a huge number Senior High School leavers still don’t have access to university education, with the country finding it difficult to produce enough graduates to feed the economy, saying:
“if we are enrolling less than required, and hence producing less than expected, how is it that we are experiencing the phenomenon of graduate unemployment in the Ghanaian economy?”
He blamed the teeming youth unemployment on universities’ inability to produce graduates that needed for the economy, and government’s incapacity to create jobs.
Prof. Dzidonu said the country lacks foresight to plan higher education, which has resulted in the nation not having skillful human resource that would cushion it development.
“We cannot, as a nation, strike the balance between the demand and supply of graduates across various skills if we do not carry out, as part of a national higher education planning process, regular national human resource gap analysis studies that will assist us in undertaking graduate output requirement planning, to serve as a basis for the government to set quotas for graduate output in key fields and professions,” he added.
Though, he congratulated the nation’s effort for maintaining quality and standard of education, he pleaded with the education authorities to do some on planning, in order to meet national developmental goals and aspirations.
On the day, among the 158 bachelor holders, 31 obtained First Class Honours, 52 obtained second class upper division, 74, second class lower division, and one obtained third class.
The AIT President urged them to continue seeking knowledge and opportunities in other areas of their endeavours. Prof. Francis K. Allotey, Chairman, AIT Board of Trustees, congratulated the graduands for studying hard to obtain degrees in various disciplines at the university.
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