The Executive Chairman of Dominion University, Professor Felix Hammond, has advocated that managers of Ghana’s Education System adopt a new approach that helps solve the country`s socioeconomic challenges.
According to Professor Hammond, the current system run in Ghana can be seen in two approaches where some are doing the same and a few are differentiating through nurturing young people with the requisite skills that are needed in the current economy.
He said this at the launch of TEASE by the University on May 13. TEASE is a vehicle to inculcate some values into their students to help them build a future in the area of Trustworthiness, Experience, Authority, Success, and Expertise.
He noted that those running the normal teaching and learning are producing graduates who lack the skills to take up challenges in the economy.
He said a thriving education system has to deliver four main functions, which include economic development, social development, cultural development, and personal growth.
“It is very easy for everyone to say we are raising leaders, it is also easy for us to say there’s a mismatch between what the universities are producing and what the market is looking for,” he said.
Professor Hammond reiterated that all the country needs is produce graduates who will be trusted in society who are ready to take up challenging positions.
“Graduates will earn the trust of society in any sector of the economy they find themselves,” he said.
He mentioned that the time has come that courses studied in the various universities should instill into the students the ability to identify problems, think critically, and create impactful solutions.
Professor Hammond indicated that as part of the commitment to transform the phase of graduating students of the university, they are deploying new models with the combination of successful economics that has been tested and tried that is impactful.
He believes students should not go through the university to acquire just a certificate. But rather, students who have acquired skills that employers are looking for.
“We don’t have to repeat the courses others are doing. We have to launch new courses that nobody is launching, train and develop new skills, and put them in the system,” he stated.
It is in furthurance of changing the narrative, that Dominion University College has launched TEASE.
The university believes these are set tools that every student should possess.
By Kingsley Adusei Amakye: ONUA TV/3NEWS
