Renowned Accounting Professor at the University of Nottingham Business School in the United Kingdom, Noel Tagoe says higher education is only relevant if it transforms the lives of those who pursue it and makes them critical thinkers as well as role models for others.
According to him, that is when they will become socially useful and be able to assist with the development.
“I am proud to be a teacher; to take people from lack of knowledge and ignorance to transform them and give them the ability to sing for themselves and to question critically the kind of things that happen in the nation, to raise the level of debate to become role models for others and to carve a path as pioneers in thinking in their areas of expertise…”
To him, Ghana is doomed without this result of education in the country adding that “no development will go back to superstition.”
He also noted that in other for Ghana to develop, all must work together and be ready to make sacrifices while upholding the country’s heritage and aiming to leave a lasting legacy.
“…if the heritage that we have is more than the legacy that we leave then we have not developed; in actual fact, we have retrogressed. On the other hand, if our legacy is better than heritage that we met then we have developed…” he said.
Professor Tagoe, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Noel Tagoe & Company was speaking at the 6th Congregation of the Institute of Development and Technology Management held on Saturday.
The institute saw its first batch of students graduating after three years of starting the institute’s Doctor of Philosophy programme.
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The ceremony was held under the theme, “The Potential of Higher Education for Development: Institute of Development and Technology Management in focus.”
Source: Rosemond Asmah/ATLFMNEWS
