Take advantage of ICT to create jobs - Unemployed graduates urged

Unemplyed graduates have been urged to take advantage of the opportunities offered by Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to create jobs for themselves.

The Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, Mr Enoch Hemans Cobbinah, who made the call, said ICT was not limited by geographical boundaries and, therefore, had a huge potential to create employment for job seekers.

“There is no need for graduates to join an unemployed graduates association when they can use the opportunities in ICT to generate wealth,” he said.

Mr Cobbinah was speaking at a day’s workshop to review and finalise the “ICT in Education policy” for the Ministry of Education in Accra yesterday.

Policy

The policy, which was first formulated in 2009, seeks to promote ICT training and education in schools, colleges and universities. Its objectives include the effective use of ICT to improve teaching and learning, develop the professional capacity of teachers, improve the management of education and promote inclusive education by addressing inequalities in gender, language and disability.

In a speech read on her behalf, the Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, said the policy sought to promote improvement in educational service delivery at all levels and create a generation of computer literate workforce and entrepreneurs who could compete at all levels.

She said the country could not afford to be left out of the ICT revolution due to the huge benefits it offered, adding that “ICT has helped countries to transform their education systems to propel their development.”