Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana and the Chancellor of the Presbyterian University College, Ghana (PUCG) has implored the 10th graduating students of PUCG to be honest and focus on hard work with the desire to make a mark for the good of Ghana and humanity wherever they find themselves.
Speaking on the theme “Graduate Unemployment: Education for What?” the Chancellor said Ghana needs citizens of integrity to become middle income nation. “… in our quest to become a middle income nation and to sustain such a level of development, the nation will need well-skilled and morally upright citizens. We need citizens of integrity”, he argued.
Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey appealed to the graduands not to let the Church, their family and the nation down by failing to demonstrate a high sense of hard work and discipline.
The Chancellor believes having gone through the traditional Presbyterian training which focuses on training the Hand, the Heart and the Head, the graduands are equipped to excel on the job market if the enabling environment is created by the government.
Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey therefore called on the government to create the enabling environment and initiate policies which would encourage those who want to open their own businesses to be able to do so.
The Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana recommended to the University to consider making religion a required course for every student who enters the University so that interested students could earn Certificates or Diplomas in Religious Studies and related subjects alongside the core programmes they are reading.
This would not only benefit the University itself but would also help shape the moral character of our nation greatly.
“It is to this end that the offer of additional programmes in this University that provide entrepreneurial skills which help in the training of the Head, the Heart and the Hand deserve high commendation” the Chancellor noted.