Dr Stephen Amoah, Member of Parliament (MP) for Nhyiaeso, has advocated the urgent need to include entrepreneurship as a core subject in the Junior High School (JHS) academic curricula and as an elective course in the Senior High School (SHS) curricu­la, respectively.

The legislator was of the firm conviction that if entrepreneur­ship was fully integrated into the country’s education system, it would ignite students’ interest in the course and create their own businesses after school.

That way, he said, it would minimise youth unemployment in the country and lift the pressure on the government to always find avenues to recruit graduates into the public sector.

Dr Stephen Amoah made the re­marks in a statement read on the floor of Parliament on Tuesday.

Entrepreneurship is the ability to set up a new business and develop one’s own business with the intention of making a profit, instead of relying on existing and flourishing businesses.

The Nhyiaeso lawmaker was of the belief that if entrepreneurship was given the needed national attention, it would stimulate so­cio-economic growth and stability.

“The job market in Ghana is congested therefore putting most of the youth in undesirable situa­tions including insecurity, armed robbery, teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases,” he noted.

According to the Data Institute of Statistical, Social and Econom­ic Research, only 10 per cent of Ghanaian graduates secure jobs within a year of graduation.

The way to deal with graduate unemployment, according to the legislator, was by integrating entrepreneurship as a key policy intervention.

The Ghana Statistical Service also said graduate job-hunting during the period of graduation has always been a laborious experience, leading to stressful conditions.

The Ghana Education Sector Report said about 109,874 grad­uated annually from the univer­sities, however, only 10 per cent secure regular job within a year of graduation.

Dr Amoah noted that Ghana, being a developing nation, en­dowed with many natural resourc­es must leverage on her resourc­es to create jobs for the teeming youth to contribute their quota to national development. –GNA