[ 2016-11-21 ]

NDC has best job solution: Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has said his
government will continue its aggressive policies
to improve employment opportunities for graduates
if re-elected in the December polls.

According to him, the National Democratic Congress
(NDC) has the best policy in its manifesto to
address the issue of unemployment and job creation
for jobless graduates.

Speaking at the Wa campus of the University for
Development Studies (UDS) on Saturday 19 November,
as part of his campaign tour of the region, he
said government was realigning academic training
with what business ad industries were looking for,
as is done in the developed countries.

“We have done enough work over these last four
years to earn re-election and I’m hopeful and
confident that we will get elected and that the
NDC will win the election in 2016. When we have
won in the second term, we are going to continue
aggressive policies that will improve the
opportunities for employment,” he stated.

“Some people are saying it with their mouths,
but I urge you to take the manifestos of the
parties and if you look at the job-creation
proposals in the NDC manifesto, I believe that it
is the most credible and most realistic. We are
looking at realigning academic training and what
business and industry is looking for,” Mr Mahama
said.

He noted that there was the need for more
practical work to be done as part of academic work
to give students hands-on experience in the job
market before they graduate.

“The last time I met captains of industry…they
said that they didn’t want theoretical
graduates; they want graduates who are practical
and so if somebody rushes to do an MBA and comes
and it’s just a theoretical MBA, [they] want an
MBA holder, who, in his academic training, has had
a practical, hands-on training and, so, if you
notice, most of the universities in the United
States of America and other developed countries
send students into the world of work. You do an
internship for one year and then you come back,
study, and then take your exams before you come
out. So, by the time they come out, they are not
just theoretical but practical,” he said.

Mr Mahama also promised to upgrade the roads
within the university’s campus. He assured:
“As we continue to upgrade the Wa town roads, we
will also upgrade the roads within your campus, so
that the campus is befitting of the kind of
academic work that you do here.”

Source - Classfmonline

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