Ministry of Education’s reply to Unemployed Graduates Teachers

Youth unemployment is the situation of young people looking for jobs,but finding none, with the age range being defined by the United Nations as 15–24 years old. An unemployed person is defined as someone who does not have a job but is actively seeking work. In order to qualify as unemployed for official and statistical measurement, the individual must be without employment, willing and able to work, of the officially designated “working age” (often from the teens to the mid-60s) and actively searching for a position.

Youth unemployment rates tend to be higher than that of the adult in every country in the world especially here in Ghana.

I get to doubt the essence of university education when I see university graduates who are home,doing nothing in terms of something to earn a living. I tend to ask myself some questions:Why invest into university and graduate to become a menace? Why not sit home and invest those resources into a business or something better? What’s the essence of getting a certificate and staying idle?

These are questions that need answers from the superiors. Why should it always be about who knows you,before you can be employed.
This rate of unemployment among the youth,especially university graduates should be addressed as soon as possible, or else the importance of tertiary education will be disregarded among the follow-up youth.

Just recently, unemployed university graduate teachers of Ghana petitioned the Ghana Education Service (GES) to consider them in the recruitment process. Fairly but unfairly enough,they were considered. The GES recruited only university graduates with Bachelor Degree in Education, leaving out those graduates with Diplomacy in Education.

This event has led to lamenting among the graduates with Diplomacy in Education, “…meanwhile just as our comrades with Degree, we the Diplomats have also been home for ages after completion and therefore were vehemently expecting to be treated equally, only to be slapped in the face with disappointment…”

RESPONDS
This is a good sign though uncertain. This is unpredictable in the sense that the reply quoted “…The ministry has taken note of your request and wishes to inform you that,your petition has been forwarded to GES for the necessary response and action”…. Our fervent hope is that the GES responds affirmatively.