The Chief Executive of Schoolmate Investments, Mr. Gideon K. Oyiadzo, has called on the government to engage Senior High School (SHS) graduates to do national service, as Sixth Formers used to do in the past.
He said the yearly number of over 160,000 SHS graduates who were always made to idle at home for a whole year before pursuing tertiary education, could be drawn into various types of crime if no useful work was found for them to do.
Mr. Oyiadzo made the call in Accra at a national stakeholders forum on SHS graduates.
Stakeholders who attended the forum were drawn from Ministries of Education, Information, Youth and Sports, and past SHS graduates from selected schools in the country.
Mr. Oyiadzo said the SHS graduates could be engaged through attachment, internships, voluntarism, sporting activities, motivational and entrepreneurial workshops and seminars.
“All stakeholders can therefore assist in the establishment of a comprehensive SHS graduate volunteer scheme to engage our graduates as allies in national development,” he stressed.
He said his organisation, in its quest to empower Ghana’s youth, had suggested the establishment of an “SHS Graduate Volunteer Fund” to provide seed money for SHS graduates to enable them engage in profitable ventures.
The Ga Mantse Nii Tackie Tawiah III who chaired the function, said the successive generation of Ghana’s population is the youth but a greater proportion do not get access to tertiary education.
He said those of them who have the privilege of getting education, have a duty to transmit knowledge to those who did not go to school.
Nii Tackie Tawiah III said the youth must not limit themselves to only what they already knew but should take up challenges and explore more avenues for knowledge.
Rt. Rev. Samuel Noye Mensah, president of Full Gospel Church International, in a keynote address, said the forum is aimed at finding credible ways to engage SHS graduates as worthy allies for national development.
He challenged stakeholders in the educational sector to develop a cutting-edge plan to raise the quality of students that graduate to enable them to contribute meaningfully to national development.
Rev. Mensah said idle SHS graduates could be engaged in the agro-based establishments at the district assemblies, industries, apprenticeship, the upcoming national census exercise, and gas filling stations.
He has however cautioned that, no matter how innovative our schools are, students needed to be punctual, attentive in class, and staying out of petty crimes like sex and drugs, before they could make it in life.
He said the yearly number of over 160,000 SHS graduates who were always made to idle at home for a whole year before pursuing tertiary education, could be drawn into various types of crime if no useful work was found for them to do.
Mr. Oyiadzo made the call in Accra at a national stakeholders forum on SHS graduates.
Stakeholders who attended the forum were drawn from Ministries of Education, Information, Youth and Sports, and past SHS graduates from selected schools in the country.
Mr. Oyiadzo said the SHS graduates could be engaged through attachment, internships, voluntarism, sporting activities, motivational and entrepreneurial workshops and seminars.
“All stakeholders can therefore assist in the establishment of a comprehensive SHS graduate volunteer scheme to engage our graduates as allies in national development,” he stressed.
He said his organisation, in its quest to empower Ghana’s youth, had suggested the establishment of an “SHS Graduate Volunteer Fund” to provide seed money for SHS graduates to enable them engage in profitable ventures.
The Ga Mantse Nii Tackie Tawiah III who chaired the function, said the successive generation of Ghana’s population is the youth but a greater proportion do not get access to tertiary education.
He said those of them who have the privilege of getting education, have a duty to transmit knowledge to those who did not go to school.
Nii Tackie Tawiah III said the youth must not limit themselves to only what they already knew but should take up challenges and explore more avenues for knowledge.
Rt. Rev. Samuel Noye Mensah, president of Full Gospel Church International, in a keynote address, said the forum is aimed at finding credible ways to engage SHS graduates as worthy allies for national development.
He challenged stakeholders in the educational sector to develop a cutting-edge plan to raise the quality of students that graduate to enable them to contribute meaningfully to national development.
Rev. Mensah said idle SHS graduates could be engaged in the agro-based establishments at the district assemblies, industries, apprenticeship, the upcoming national census exercise, and gas filling stations.
He has however cautioned that, no matter how innovative our schools are, students needed to be punctual, attentive in class, and staying out of petty crimes like sex and drugs, before they could make it in life.
