Former President John Mahama has called for re-engineering of the curriculum of University of education in Africa to stimulate accelerated development if the continent is to remain competitive and relevant in the global space of skills acquisition and training.
He identified the mismatch nature curriculum bequeathed the continent from colonial mastership, which currently under-rights the content of syllabi at the Universities.
Speaking on the “Future of Work and Industrialisation” on the sidelines of the 53rd Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank in Busan, South Korea, Mr Mahama said churning out graduates of humanities for example in large droves would not unlock the quest for accelerated industrialisation in Africa.
It was on the theme, “Accelerating Africa’s Industrialisation,” which is underpinned by the Bank’s High 5 strategy including light up and power Africa, feed Africa and improve the quality of life of Africans.
He said stringent measures should be instituted to achieve a 70 by 30 parity in the sciences against the humanities to place the continent in pole-position to advance economically, socially and in the fields of science and technology, which is the catalyst to reaching accelerated development of the continent.
Mr Mahama said Africa was ready to break into the legion of industrialised continent, when the right pillars of development was activated and matched-up to the global competition even in the face of deployment of hitech artificial intelligence and robotics saying “we can start at our own pace and leverage to succeed.
“Rethinking Africa’s development paradigm will lead us to the desired destination.”
Mr Ken Ofori-Attah, Minister of Finance, also a panellists said stakeholders in Africa should pursue radically reforms in education pedagogy especially teaching programmes in entrepreneurship to jump-start changing the psyche of students to leapfrog Africa’s industrial.
He said political stability, investment in infrastructure as well as in technology, energy, macro-economic stability were essential.
Source: GNA
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Can the president tell us which of his children did engineering or ventured into the sciences. They are either doing communication,Political science or economics. Who should do engineering when you people have relegated engineers to the background
It still amazes me the choices an decisions of this man mahama and ndc for that matter, A man and a party that understands yebedii k3k3 but do not understand GHANA BEYOND AID. a party that thinks everything is not possible. A president that cannot think far. fortunately for you you got kicked out......then you want to come back.....never seizes to amaze me.
You recruited STea_lers,when you had your time to rule comort
You recrucited stealers when you had your time to rule comort