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Sixty-Ninth Annual New Year School and Conference ends
Sixty-Ninth Annual New Year School and Conference which was held at the Great Hall of the University of Ghana has ended.

Date Created : 1/19/2018 6:53:25 AM : Story Author : Irene Kwakye

The event on the theme “Job Creation for Accelerated National Development: The Role of the Private Sector”, recorded 320 participants, which is the highest ever over the past decade.

The annual event provides a platform for a dispassionate discussion of important issues of national and international concern in which it urges Government to use its purchasing power to ensure compliance.

The communiqué recommended that in ensuring that Ghana attracts private investments into the agricultural value chain, the Government through the Ministries of Food and Agriculture, Health and Education should strengthen and make it compulsory, the policy that requires Government institutions to purchase produce from local farmers.

The participants pleaded that government through the Ghana Standards Authority and other regulatory agencies, strictly enforce international standards through local associations for the production of goods and services.

Professor Samuel Kwame Offei, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Academic and Students Affairs, University of Ghana, said the University was in the process of reviewing its undergraduate degree programmes, and that, going forward, their programmes at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, would concentrate on creating the 21st century graduate, by focusing more on critical and analytical thinking, entrepreneurship and intellectual development.

Professor Michael Ayitey Tagoe, the Provost, College of Education, and the Dean, School of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Ghana, said one of the major outcomes of the 69th ANYSC had been to stress on the fact that Government alone could not create jobs. He said the private sector must be seen to be leading the agenda of job creation in Ghana.

It called for productive partnership between Government and the private sector to pursue the Government's role as a facilitator more seriously and strategically.

The ANYSC was organized by the School of Continuing and Distance Education of the College of Education, University of Ghana, under the auspices of Komos Energy, Vodafone Ghana, Goil, Voltic, Daily Graphic, Prudential Bank and the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana.

Irene kwakye