Experts promote social enterprise as key stop-gap in unemployment

credit: Bermuda News

Ghana has one of the highest rates of graduate unemployment in the West Africa region, the Ghana News Agency reports.

The Takoradi Technical University's Ernest Christian Eshun told the GNA at a workshop that "as we try to solve unemployment problems, and we do any businesses, we may end up killing society."

He said as higher education providers, it had become imperative to research the high unemployment rate among graduates as well as solutions in that regard.

"We expect our higher education to break down the cycle because most of the youth come through higher education," he said.

"Why can't they find jobs because there is something wrong with the way we do things.

And we believe we should be training their students to be social entrepreneurs."

Eshun said the project with sponsorship from the British Council in collaboration with University of Huddersfield and Bolton in the UK and its local partner, Social Enterprise initiated the program to deal with the abnormal level of unemployment in Ghana.

He said the project would run in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya.

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