President of the Ghana Association of University Administrators, Dr Beth Offei-Awuku has revealed that only about 10 per cent of all University graduates gain employment in the public service annually.
She said this has left many graduates to wallow in a mental frame of hopelessness.
Dr Offei-Awuku who stated this at the national launch of ‘Raising Next Professionals’ Initiative said the move seeks to expose public school children to professional areas in a creative and interactive way. It also aims at providing access to seasoned professionals to facilitate career counseling activities within the catchment areas of Member Universities. She said through the initiative the Association will restore hope and vision to pupils and groom them to become future leaders which will help break the crippling mentality of graduate unemployment.
Dr. Offei Awuku said the Association would put at the disposal of every public school, senior administrators and professionals from public Universities, to assist with career day activities, counseling, and modeling to build the needed mentoring relationships with public school children.
On the decline of professional ethics and integrity, she said the Ghana Integrity and public survey statistics, showed that the country lost a whopping amount of 5 billion cedis to bribes and various forms of corrupt practices in 2021.