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Saturday, 17 February 2018

President of CIBT calls for reforms in formal education

Acting President of the Catholic Institute of Business and Technology, Very Rev. Fr. John Louis has called for reforms in formal education in the country. According to him, poverty would drastically reduce if amends are made to the  curriculum  to focus on entrepreneurial skill development of students.

 He has called on the Church to begin negotiations with government to draw the attention of industry players to relook  at Ghana's formal education system as far as subject content and methods are concerned. This, he said is a factor accounting for increase of social vices among the youth in the country.
"While the Church is doing well in providing bright future for many of the youth through its many schools, it needs to start looking at the course contents and teaching methods employed.  These need to be changed and replaced with those which equip students with entrepreneurial skills, so that the majority of those who graduate from her schools would have the capacity of self-employment.  The Church needs to team up with the state to work this out." he said.

 He made the call at a public lecture put together by the Accra Archdiocesan youth council in collaboration with the provincial youth council on the topic, " the role of the church and family life in curbing social vices amongst the youth", in Accra.

Fr. Louis bemoaned the spate of social vices among the youth. He added that modern ways of sanctioning such as imprisonment and fines sometimes erode the social controls there are, and in the process, make the youth prey to social vices.
He further stated that "the family, the church and the state,  have the responsibility individually and collectively to safeguard and enhance social controls against the contemporary social changes". 
Some of these, he said include families striving to eliminate  causes of social vices that are within their control.  Thus, broken homes, lack of parental care and supervision and parental negligence among others.

He advised that social media and the internet be used as a tool to harness potentials rather than encouraging vices and the sharing of pornographic materials.
"Families should endeavour to make ICT, esp. the social media, a tool for holistic development. That is, they should teach their children to harness the merits of ICT while overcoming its demerits," he said.

He called for the effective socialisation of children at home to enable them  imbibe the norms and customs of good behaviour as well as rehabilitate those who need it.

Touching on how the Church can help prevent social vices among the youth , Fr. Louis enumerated  evangelisation, the establishment of rehab centres, and impressing upon state institutions to enforce appropriate formal social controls among others as what the Church can do to prevent social vices among the youth.

He however added that though  families, the Church and other institutions have roles to play in curbing social vices among the youth, young people have their part to play and should seek social virtues and be determined to achieve them.

The Lecture was attended by secretary to the Archbishop of Accra, Rev. Fr. Anthony Adu-Mensah, Prof Kojo Sena of the University of Ghana, Assistant Archdiocesan youth chaplain, Rev. Fr. Osborn Kudolo, Priests and religious as well as hundreds of youth from the Catholic Archdiocese of Accra.






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