Accra, Dec.18, GNA- Ms Diana Asonaba Dapaah, Deputy Minister of Justice, has advised GIMPA graduates to be agents of change and serve as Missionaries for the 4th industrial revolution.
Ms Dapaah said employers were looking for smart and innovative graduates, ready to adapt to change and make a meaningful impact in the global job market.
She said this in Accra at the 21st GIMPA Congregation for post–graduate and PhD students on the theme: ” Digitization and Employment in the Changing World.”
The Deputy Minister of Justice advised the graduates “Your degrees may not directly give you jobs, but your ability to be creative and adapt to change is critical in securing employment for yourselves.”
She said the journey was a period of transition to another journey, urging the graduates to explore the digital space and be competitive in the job environment.
That, she said, was important because the 4th industrial revolution focused on technology for sustainable development.
Ms Dapaah said technology had induced economic growth in every country even though it eliminated thousands of jobs through automation.
She charged the graduates to exhibit a high sense of leadership and purpose, discipline, integrity and positive attitudes for their image and the Institute and be successful in their career development.
Professor Samuel Kwaku Bonsu, the Rector of GIMPA, pledged to bridge the gap in GIMPA classrooms between theory and practice of management, which had widened far enough to affect GIMPA’s ability to attract clients from industry and government.
Prof Bonsu said the Institute had developed and implemented a comprehensive strategy for making GIMPA a major hub of research in Africa, which would include a re-consideration of the erstwhile “foreign-based” faculty programme and reshaping it as a mentorship programme to enhance the GIMPA brand.
He pledged to work with Council to build the new Library equipped with the comforts of contemporary digital libraries and stated that, conversations had been initiated with some friends abroad to help realize these goals.
The Rector said the Institute would launch the endowment fund, construct hostel facilities and pursue the digitization agenda to be competitive in the global space of education.
He advised the students to be focused and venture into activities that would restore their image and the Institute and not use “short cut” to enrich themselves because there were consequences for such practices
Ms Stephenie Gyamerah won the best student in Master of Arts in International Relations and Diplomacy while Mr Patrick Kwame Akwaboah emerged the best student in Master of Public Health.
Awards were presented to students who have excelled in their various fields of programmes.
GNA