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Mr Festus Nyame speaking at the guidance session
Mr Festus Nyame speaking at the guidance session

SHS students attend career guidance programme

ANGLOGOLD Ashanti (AGA) Obuasi Mine has collaborated with the Ghana Education Service (GES) to hold career guidance and counselling for over 1,000 final year students from six senior high schools (SHS) in the Obuasi Municipality in the Ashanti Region.

The institutions are the Christ the King, Father Augustine Murphy, Sam Boakye, St Margaret, Just Love and Adansi Technical schools.

The Community Relations Officer of  AGA (Obuasi Mine), Mr Edmund Oduro Agyei, said there was the need to counsel students to make well-informed choices when selecting courses from the second cycle to the tertiary level to enable them to perform creditably.

Advice to parents

He advised parents to identify the strength and weaknesses of their children in their career development and added that the guidance and counselling programme would also create awareness among the participants with regard to the development of their abilities in relation to academic and career development.

The Obuasi Municipal Director of Education, Mr Anthony Maxwell Amoako, said in view of the relevance of career development, it was necessary to do more of career guidance and counselling for pupils from the basic level, particularly those in junior high schools (JHSs), and advised parents to collaborate with teachers to build their career.

A career guidance and counselling expert from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology  (KNUST),  Mr Festus Nyame, took the participants through various areas of interest and how they could gain admission to the tertiary institutions, especially the universities.

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