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Need to balance knowledge with character for growth of
nation, very essential - President Kufuor
Kumasi, Dec.15, Ghanadot/GNA - President John Agyekum
Kufuor, has charged the nation's professionals and
technocrat to be disciplined and committed to duty in order
to accelerate socio-economic development for the country.
He said "Recent revelations about the conduct of some public
officers show that knowledge without character is a danger
to the nation."
President Kufuor was speaking at the 31st Graduation
ceremony of the Christian Service University College in
Kumasi on Saturday.
He the time had come for professionals and technocrats to
maintain high moral and ethnical values in their work to
enable the nation achieve a middle income status by 2015.
President Kufuor expressed dissatisfaction that most private
Universities in the country focused on the humanities and
social sciences and shy away from physical science and
technology in their programmes and educational curricular to
the detriment of the nation's progress.
"A developing country like Ghana needs a lot of graduates in
science and technology to augment her human resources
capabilities," he said.
President Kufuor stressed that it behoved authorities of
private universities to take a paradigm shift from their
concentration on arts related courses and embrace
technology-based programmes to help them live up to
expectation.
He commended the University College for contributing
effectively to the educational development of the country.
President Kufuor announced that government had decided to
donate a school bus, 20 computers, five printers and a
photocopier machine to the College to enhance academic work.
He said government was committed to collaborating with
private universities and to provide them with adequate
infrastructure and social amenities to enable them to admit
the growing number of students who do not gain admission to
the public universities due to limited infrastructure.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene, commended the
authorities of the University College for introducing
programmes that could help train students for the labour
market.
He urged the students put into practice what they have
learnt and be innovative and carry a lot of research for the
benefit of the nation.
Professor Stephen Adei, Rector of the Ghana Institute of
Management and Public Administration, called on Ghanaian
leaders to be transparent and accountable to ensure
effective use of state resources.
Professor Emmanuel Frimpong, Principal of the University
College, asked university students to shun radicalism,
vandalism and always use constitutional means to address
issues.
In all 160 students graduated with Diploma and first degree
certificates in Arts in Theology, Biblical Studies and
Ministry and Business Administration.
GNA
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