Centre for Entrepreneurship Education for MUCG
The Minister of Education, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has said entrepreneurship education and training should engender creative thinking and provide problem-solving and leadership skills that will prepare young people for the work environment.
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She said educational institutions should, therefore, come up with entrepreneurial programmes that would build the capacity of graduates to start new enterprises.
Prof Opoku-Agyemang was speaking at the inauguration of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education, Research and Training (CEERT) of the Methodist University College, Ghana (MUCG) in Accra last Friday.
The key objective of the centre is to train students to develop entrepreneurial minds to set up their own businesses.
Entrepreneurship education
Prof Opoku-Agyemang said entrepreneurship education should build confidence, motivate progress, strengthen the entrepreneurial mindset and foster a desire to achieve and inspire action.
“As a country, we need people who are trained to be thinkers and learners and who look ahead,” she said.
She said the government was fully in support of those efforts and would collaborate with the MUCG, through the centre, to bring about the needed change.
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The Principal of the MUCG, the Very Reverend Prof Samuel K. Adjepong, said the CEERT would also serve as the Regional Centre for the Global Entrepreneurship Training (GET) Programme in West Africa, a partnership between the MUCG and the Handong Global University, South Korea, under the auspices of UNESCO.
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The GET programme, he explained, was to help developing countries such as Ghana to achieve sustainable development by planting entrepreneurial mindsets in the target participants to encourage them to create opportunities for themselves.
The CEERT, the Very Rev Prof Adjepong said, would undertake activities such as professional development programmes in entrepreneurship, consultancy services, global entrepreneurship workshops and research, among others.
“It will place strong emphasis on entrepreneurship as a means of creating value for organisations and developing leadership competencies,” he said.