A University must academically be innovative enough to recognize the abundance of opportunities within the campuses, through industry related commercial research and inventions. A university must be innovative enough to prepare it’s graduates for the challenges outside of the lecture theatres, and not just be interested in producing graduates who cannot think outside the box due to our teaching methods.
That’s what Senyo Hosi is talking about.
He spoke the bitter truth and I agree with him wholly. Renowned universities with global acclaim in other countries only occupy a fraction of the land size of the University of Ghana, but their output far exceeds anything that Legon produces. We are simply intellectually lazy. We possess vast resources but have no clue how to generate useful outcomes. Our professors are stuck with 19th century ideas, and with outmoded formats on university administration and can only think of perks, petty campus politics and ill mannerism.
Year in, year out, the university of Ghana for instance prints thousands of admission forms and sells to prospective students. Only a fraction of the applicants gain access with majority being rejected.
No refund is ever made to these students who could not gain admission which brings up the question: where does the money go? What does the university use the money for especially in these days when the application form is online and the applicant bears the cost of printing, yet still pays hundred of cedis for it?
Don’t forget the university still depends on the state for subvention and times without number we have heard of lecturers and workers making financial demands on government and the state has always made good these demands.
University must academically be innovative enough to recognize the abundance of opportunities within the campuses, through industry related commercial research and inventions. That’s what Senyo Hosi is talking about.
But the talking heads and the bunch of empty suits thinks differently.
We are disingenuous at best as a people, and quintessential hypocrites – We hate the truth and that is why greater chunk of the youth in our generation will remain a drain on the system, while others continue to sell dog chains in traffic intersections.
We have a huge problem on our hands as a people. Let’s get it….
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