The Upper West Regional Minister, Dr. Ephraim Avea Nsoh has expressed worry over the relevance of Polytechnic education in Ghana saying, it has completely lost the purpose for which they were established.
According to him, they have shifted their focus on the training of students, who use only their minds at the work place.
Dr. Nsoh noted that polytechnic education was intended to train appropriate middle- level manpower required by the nation particularly in industry.
He said: “The intention is to train polytechnic students to use their minds and hands to solve problems that are in the society.”
The Minister made the remarks in a speech read on his behalf at the launch of the Student Representative Council (SRC) of week celebration of the Wa Polytechnic, on Monday.
Dr Nsoh stated that Polytechnic education should not only aim at strengthening the human resource base of the nation, but it should also create opportunities for self-employment.
He urged the students to turn societal problems like sanitation, bush burning and other poverty-related problems into opportunities through innovation and creativity.
The Upper West Regional Minister called for partnership between industries and educational institutions so as to give students the opportunity to put into practice what they studied in school.
