The Chief Operating Officer of the Jospong Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Group, Samuel Ofori-Gyampoh, who gave the advice, said that was because starting new things would always be difficult especially now that the nation was facing uncertain times.

“Others might not believe in your dream and will even try to talk you out of it but you had the dream and know what you saw.”

“The people around you may mean well but it is your dream, believe in it and it will come to pass,” he said.

Mr Ofori-Gyampoh added that the graduates were entering the working environment at a time when the world was facing a recession and businesses were reacting to these challenges by implementing various interventions in order to survive.

“They are leaning on innovative ways through digital transformation to survive, businesses are looking out for an innovative workforce to help them drive these objectives,” he explained.  

Mr Ofori-Gyampoh, therefore, stated that graduating from a technology-based university such as the GCTU had placed the students in a position to offer the business community the needed human resource that was adequately trained and poised to execute such roles.

“There are opportunities still out there for anyone willing to innovate,” he added. 

Congregation

430 students, comprising 382 undergraduates and 48 postgraduates, were graduated after successfully completing their various programmes of study at the university’s affiliated institutions.

These were: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Coventry University in the United Kingdom (UK), Anhalt University of Applied Science and CASS Europe.

The graduates completed Master’s, Bachelor’s degree and Diploma programmes from various faculties including the Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Computing and Information Systems, School of Business among others.

A total of 13 received special awards.

Mandate, support

For his part, the Vice Chancellor of the university, Nana Professor Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, said the university would continue to adhere to its mandate by increasing the number of ICT-based programmes, stating that the programmes already offered were about 80 per cent science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) based.

“We have submitted about 20 new STEM / ICT based programmes at the Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral levels to Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) for accreditation and this will help us develop and design our programmes and policies to conform to national and international standards,” he said.