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The President of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Dr Samuel Kwesi Asiedu-Addo, has called on stakeholders in the education sector to do all they can to find lasting solutions to the problems bedevilling Ghana's educational system. According to him, unless educational issues are discussed dispassionately devoid of political considerations, it will adversely affect national development. Dr. Asiedu-Addo, who is also a lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Winneba. He reiterated that a number of educational reforms embarked upon by previous governments were short-lived because those programmes just like most of the governments, were not allowed to run their full course. The UTAG President noted that the reforms only put in place educational systems that produce graduates bereft of employable skills for the job market. Dr Asiedu-Addo noted that the reforms were crafted without the involvement of a wide spectrum of major stakeholders in education. The reforms also lacked a national educational policy framework within which governments have to operate. On the way forward, Dr. Asiedu-Addo called for a holistic national educational policy framework that is not politically motivated, for the nation�s accelerated development.