PNC Candidate pledges to lead campaign to reform education

The Afigya-Kwabre South Parliamentary Candidate of the Peoples’ National Convention (PNC), Robert Dambo, has promised to lead a campaign to reform the education system, if elected as law maker. 

He said the current system is out of step with the real needs of industry and that there is an urgent need to change course. 

In an interview with GNA at Kordie in the Ashanti Region, Mr Dambo said it has become necessary to put in place a system that would provide students with the requisite practical and intellectual skills to make them employable. 

He said high graduate unemployment could become a major disincentive and discourage many young people from staying in school and this will affect the socio-economic development of the country. 

He underlined the need to run academic programmes, which would help the nation to make the most of its natural resources – oil and gas fields, gold and other mineral deposits, land and tourist sites. 

Tackling environmental sanitation challenges was his other major priority.

GNA