African Union High Representative for Silencing the Guns, Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas has urged African leaders to rely on transformative education to address the continent’s challenges such as conflicts, climate change impact and other environmental problems while meeting industrial demands also.
He noted that even though the continent, particularly Ghana, churns out several thousands of university graduates every year, there’s still a significant industrial demand for competent candidates.
Speaking as the special guest lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba’s public lecture series, Dr. Ibn Chambas, emphasised the urgent need for educators to target learning outcomes that offers solutions to Africa and Ghana’s problems.
He strongly advocated for schools to focus on STEM curricular in order to produce skilled graduates.
“To advance in this trajectory, we must do more than just reform education. We must rethink it. We must move from a module of information transmission to one of mindset empowerment.
“This means repositioning Ghana’s education under three foundational and fundamental principles; relevance, resilience and responsibility,” he said.
Vice Chancellor of UEW, Professor Stephen Jobson Mitchual, emphasized the need for tertiary institutions to adopt inclusive education methods and refocus in order to tackle growing unemployment rate.
“In such a time education must remain relevant, inclusive and forward looking. I have always said that our tertiary institutions should not add up to the problems that we already have,” he stressed.
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