News:
May 11, 2018
First Deputy Majority whip, Moses Anim has said if Ghana is to realize President Nana Akufo-Addo’s dream of Ghana beyond aid, Technical Universities should focus on promoting maths, science, accountancy and technical education.
According to the first Deputy Majority whip, research has shown that in the Technical Universities, 61 percent of their courses are on humanities whiles 39 percent are on math, science and the technical courses.
“We do not want to be price takers of our raw materials and commodities that we send abroad, rather we want to add value to our raw product and compete very well with our economic resource and build opportunities for our people”, he remarked.
He further added that “we want to stop begging for aid, which is in line with the Presidents vision, Ghana beyond aid means we need to develop our math, science and technical education.”
We have a local content law passed by Parliament, to ensure that our resources; oil and gas sector Ghanaians play a leading role, foreign companies would also train Ghanaians so that in five years Ghanaians take over managerial roles.
This cannot be achieved if our Technical Universities are not focusing on math, science and technical education but rather humanities, he said.
Again we will need our accountants to ensure that profits that we make are not being misappropriated and taken away illegally.
He made this remarks when the Ghana Chartered Institute of Accountants paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of Parliament Professor, Mike Aaron Oquaye.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com