Keep dreams alive — Otabil
The Chancellor of the Central University College (CUC), Rev. Dr Mensa Otabil, has challenged graduating students of the university to keep their dreams alive in spite of the twists and turns on the job market and in life.
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"You would need to use your wisdom and knowledge acquired throughout your four-year education to help build your future career and aspirations yourselves,” he admonished.
Speaking at the university's 12th graduation ceremony at Miotso in the Dangme West District in the Greater Accra Region where 2,189 students graduated with various degrees and masters certificates, Dr Otabil revealed that the certificates awarded to graduating students after their four years’ study was not a guarantee to land a job on the market.
Classes
A total of 1,380 of the graduates are females, while 809 are males.
Of the number, 62 obtained First Class, 563 graduated with a Second Class Upper Division, 736 obtained Second Lower and 595 were awarded Third Class.
Some 233 other students also managed to scale with a pass.
Admonishment
“This piece of paper of a certificate you have received today, would not, by itself, guarantee you a job or achieve your future aspirations. It is the wisdom you apply to this certificate that would help you build your career and aspirations," Dr Otabil counseled.
While reminding students to be committed to their aspirations and be good team players wherever they might find themselves, Dr Otabil, further, tasked the graduates to remain focused as they entered the world to pursue goals that would guarantee a better future for them.
An alumnus of the university and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CFI Money Lending, Mr Lawrence Adjei, for his part, told the graduates that the training they had received from the university was a tool aimed to challenge them to explore opportunities.
He reminded them to put the relevance of what they had learnt into helping themselves achieve their desired goals.
"Be not a member of the unemployed graduates association, because for such, I can only reiterate that you would stay hungry and foolish," Mr Adjei advised.
He was of the view that students who learnt for exams sake but not for life ended up joining an association for unemployed graduates “because as students, you do not learn just to identify the wrongs of society but to innovatively roll out sustainable solutions for your generation and the next.”
The President of the University, Professor Kwesi Yankah, in his annual report, said the 2013 academic year saw a total enrolment of 2,928 freshmen and women out of a total of 4,490 who applied for the various programmes of the university.
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