Abstract
There is a growing concern of youth unemployment among tertiary graduates. Skills acquired in school provide an opportunity to grab. Unemployment sounds unusual in the preindependent colonial era when people learn the trade of the family. After independence, schooling for government jobs became a mantra. There is a shift from the culture and socioeconomic structure to governmental employment structure. This study determines how the population structure is outpacing public government business creating employment deficit and how the curriculum is defeating entrepreneurial development in Ghana. The literature is reviewed, and discussion with students as focused group addresses the unemployment problem. The study concludes that the educational curriculum that is not incorporating the traditional industries is creating unemployment.
Highlights
Concerns are raised about unemployment in society worldwide among the youth graduating from various educational institutions
O verreliance on others for a job has created huge unemployment burden on society (O’Higgins, 2001).Youth unemployment rate worldwide is high with a global average of 11.9% in 2007, three times higher than adult unemployment rate; in 2009, it shot up to 13% (Dei Tumi, 2011)
Societies that are not structuring their educational system to capture the local cultures and socioeconomic activities and merj.scholasticahq.com behaviors stand at the risk of experiencing acute unemployment with time
Summary
Concerns are raised about unemployment in society worldwide among the youth graduating from various educational institutions. If the traditional economic structures are appropriately developed to absorb these people into work, it means a lot in terms of production of goods and services for domestic and external consumption They are idle with the possibility of engaging themselves in negative social practices. The unemployed population has the youth in the age range of 15–34 years as 84.7% in 1960, 91.2% in 1970, 92.8% in 1984, and 70.2% in 2000 This shows a weak economic system and structure (BaahBoateng & Turkson 2005), which is not able to train its human resources and make good use of them. From the survey as presented buy Amankrah (2006a, 2006b) and Nsowah-Nuamah and Amankrah (2005) some statistical inference can be made as below
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