74 Students have successfully graduated from NIIT Ghana in diverse fields like software engineering,networking,film animation, IT and business skills. This included students who obtained free scholarships worth USD 50,000 under NIIT's 50@50 program to co-incided with Ghana's 50th anniversary.The Indian high commissionner, Mrs.Ruchi Ghanshyam,in her speech praise NIIT for its role in ICT and providing excellent IT education to the Ghanaians. She urged the students to be role model for others to follow and thanked NIIT for its efforts in bringing the best out of the students. She regarded NIIT as one the best IT education providers in the world and praised NIIT for its contribution to the development of the society.The special guest, Mr.Rev.Emmanuel Dadebo, ICT co-coordinator at the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports emphasized the need for grandaunts to use NIIT's new university alliance to gain the coveted BSc degree from UK right here in Ghana .NIIT has successfully partnered with various universities in countries like UK,USA,AUSTRALIA,NEW-ZEALAND to name a few, to help those who wish to travel abroad. He highlighted the various efforts made by his ministry to make ICT mandatory at the grass roots level to enable graduates from Ghanaian educational institutions-formal and non-formal-to confidently and creatively use ICT tools and resources to develop requisite skills and knowledge needed to be active participants in the global knowledge economy by 2015,other policy goals as adapted from the national ICT4AD policy document include; facilitating the deployement,utilisation and exploitation within the educational system to improve on educational access and delivery to support teaching and learning from the primary level upwards;modernise the educational system to improve the quality of education and training at all levels of the education,traning and research resources and facilities and also to orient all levels of the country's educational system to the teaching and learning of science and technology in order to promote science and technology in society and produce a critical mass of requisite human resources and a well informed citizenry .He also noted that, under the Ghana eSchools and communities' initiatives, the ministry in collaboration with the ORACLE and CISCO consortia, the NEPAD eSchools initiative has been implemented six of the ten regions in Ghana. Each of the schools has in place a computer laboratory with 25 computers, satellite internet connectivity and other state of the art of ICT equipment for eLearning.An online portal''SCHOOL.COM.GH'' and a CD-based resource for teaching and learning of various Ghanaian subjects in Junior High Schools and Senior High School have been developed in collaboration with INTEL Corporatio.The portal which is now available to all junior high schools in Ghana has the following www.skoool.com.gh.
On the impact of ICT on the new world agenda, he noted that, the world's technological landscape is changing very fast. New technologies depend increasingly on scientific and technological knowledge; this interdependence strengthens the reciprocal links between understanding and capabilities .Our economy is trying to keep pace with a world increasingly driven by information, technology and knowledge. These have become the driving forces for productivity, competitiveness, and increased wealth and prosperity. To succeed, policies that are able to facilitate the translation of new knowledge to new capabilities must be put in place. The skills, capacity for continuous learning, and effective management of a nation's workforce largely determines the country's ability to attract and retain high-value-added,high-skill industries and its ability to absord and exploit new technologies for economic benefit.Mr.Kapil Gupta,managing director at NIIT emphasized the need for Ghanaians to put thair knowledge for the best use of the society and provide their services for the betterment of Ghana.He praised the students for their hard work and urged them to move up the ladder in their respective fields.He explained that NIIT trains over 5,000 students a year in ghana at its five centres in Accra(2),Kumasi,Takoradi and Tema.He highlighed that NIIT offers diverse programs like internationally recognizeddiploma programs,BSc degree from the open university,united kingdom and various
BY:MADIOU DIALLO
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