Anthony Adu
ANTHONY ADU-Nketiah, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of ThonKet Group of Companies in Kumasi, has charged industrialists and academicians to come together to bring positive impact on the nation’s economy.
According to him, the existing sharp disconnect between industry and the academia has not helped Ghana’s economic development.
Anthony Adu-Nketiah, who was speaking at the 13th graduation ceremony of the Ghana Baptist University College (GBUC) on Saturday, at Abuakwa in the Ashanti Region, said industrialists need to partner members of academia and researchers to bring positive economic effects.
Unfortunately, he observed that the universities are on the other side whereas the businesses are also at the tail end, which results in industry taking decisions that are not well informed, leading to the collapse of businesses.
He noted that the situation is not so in developed countries.
He added also that “industries are working disjointedly with academia. Academia prepares graduates like we are seeing today for the industry and for the public sector but when they come, they (graduates) are not humble enough to come down and learn the job,” he said.
Rev Dr. Ernest Adu- Gyamfi, Chancellor of GBUC, appealed to the government to give attention to private universities as much as it has given attention to the public universities.
He also called on the government to consider some support to private universities to cushion and help them in the human resource development of the country.
He added that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous effects on the university, making students and their parents unable to raise money to pay tuition fees.
Rev. Dr. Adu-Gyamfi also appealed to government for support in terms of scholarships for some faculty training to uplift the quality of the teachers at the school.
“To make university education much more relevant to industries, there is the need for us to reshape our lecturers to provide the needed resources to bring the country where it has to be,” he reiterated.
A total of 479 students who had satisfied the course requirements moderated by the University of Cape Coast (UCC) graduated from GBUC.
FROM David Afum, Kumasi