The Chairman of the Narrative Changers, a pressure group based in the Upper East Region, George Solomon Gbenga, has called on parents to enrol their wards into skill training programs after their Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE).
This, he noted, would help them acquire some appreciable skills that can earn them some income, limit the rate of teenage pregnancies, reduce social vices, and well prepare them for the job market.
He emphasised that “the devil finds work for the idle person,” and it was important that parents, knowing well that the formal sector could not be assured, coupled with the hardship being experienced in the country, find work for these wards now to prepare them for the near future.
Mr. Gbenga revealed this when he spoke to Mark Smith on A1 Radio’s Daybreak Upper East show.
He bemoaned that the idea of students trooping into the southern sector in the name of work was a thing of the past, and it was time parents took deliberate effort to start preparing their wards by helping them to acquire sustainable skills.
A total of 22,439 candidates are said to be sitting for this year’s BECE in the Upper East Region, comprising 10,587 males and 11,852 females.
Nationally, 600,714 candidates, comprising 300,323 males and 300,391 females from 18,983 schools, are sitting for the exams in 2,137 centres across the country.
Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1MHz|Gilbert Azeem Tiroog|Ghana
