Ms Rosemond Fomadi, a Kpando-based Designer and Dressmaker has urged the Career and Counselling Department of Ghana Education Service (GES) to disabuse the minds of students that clothing and textiles were subjects for the less intelligent students.
She said the trend among Senior High School students to list those disciplines as a last option tended to degrade the subjects.
Ms Fomadi made the call when speaking to Ghana News Agency (GNA) in an interview during a workshop attended by Journalists, officials of assemblies and operators of Micro-Businesses members in the Volta Region to deliberate on efforts boost the micro-business sector.
The workshop is one of the series being organized nation-wide by the National Secretariat of Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) in collaboration with management of KAB Consult, a Good Governance Advocacy NGO, supported by Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund.
Ms Fomadi who produces clothing under the brand name "Needlespeaks" said a student of clothing and textiles should be creative to make something good out of the course.
She said clothing and textiles were job related area with the capacity to lead many students into the fascinating fashion industry.
Ms Fomadi said the systematic introduction of pupils to needlework in the past made it much easier for them to know if they were fit for those subjects.
She expressed concern that these days most students in Senior High Schools could hardly undertake the very basics of sewing, such as hemming and tacking.