Use innovative teaching methods : Veep charges tertiary institutions
Vice-President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has asked institutions of higher learning to be innovative in their teaching methods to instill competence in students in the pursuit of their chosen professions.
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In view of the youth unemployment situation, he said, bringing innovations to bear on teaching and learning in tertiary institutions was one of the surest ways of creating job opportunities for their products.
Addressing the second congregation of the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology (CIBT) in Accra yesterday, Mr Amissah-Arthur stressed that tertiary education was critical to the development of the nation, given the specialised courses such as Computer Science, Entrepreneurship and Business which the schools offered.
He paid glowing tribute to the pioneering role Catholic education had played in the country and acknowledged the moral principles that accompanied such education.
He underscored the need for other institutions of higher learning to emulate the example.
He said the future of the CIBT was bright, in view of the value Catholic education continued to provide in the country and lauded other private institutions for making up for what the public institutions could not provide.
Advice
While congratulating the graduates, Mr Amissah-Arthur advised them to apply the knowledge they had acquired to help solve the challenges facing society.
He also implored them to pass on the moral principles they had acquired to future generations and maintain high moral and professional standards.
Mr Amissah-Arthur described the relationship between the church and the state in the area of education as healthy, adding that the government would continue to engage private tertiary institutions and give them the necessary support.
Voluntarism
The Chancellor of the CIBT, the Most Rev. Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle, urged educational institutions to introduce programmes that would inculcate in students the culture of voluntary service.
Speaking with the Daily Graphic, the Most Rev. Palmer-Buckle noted that most people who had attained status in academia did not see the importance of devoting their time and services voluntarily to promote education.
“It is my prayer that graduating students will be imbibed with a sense of voluntary service by using academia to find answers and solutions to the challenges that communities face,” he said.
The President of the CIBT, Monsignor Jonathan Thomas Ankrah, announced that the institute was to establish a technology campus at Mepe in the Volta Region.
He said the new campus would initially run programmes in Nursing and Allied Health Studies and eventually include Engineering, Pharmacy and Agriculture.
