Some officials of the NSS in a chat
THE NATIONAL Service Scheme (NSS) has commenced the implementation of a new system to offer more service personnel with skills and hands-on entrepreneurial training.
This is expected to make them ready for the job market or establish their own companies after one year.
According to the Public Affairs Directorate of NSS, this is a major boost to complement government’s employment generation agenda adding NSS is also coming out with an electronic job platform to absorb all completing personnel and appropriately match their skill sets for companies in need of their services.
Executive Director of the National Service Scheme (NSS), Osei Asibbey Antwi, who announced this at a stakeholders’ conference in Accra yesterday, said currently, the scheme is liaising with various user agencies in ensuring that a significant number of personnel who excel are employed after service period.
The conference which attracted over 300 principals and registrars of both public and private tertiary educational institutions, was on the theme “Strengthening GNAA Database through Digitilisation for Efficient Deployment.”
Mr Osei Assibey said though the scheme was not deviating from the dictates of Act 426 (1980), it was determined to be innovative in meeting the socio-economic needs of the Ghanaian graduate.
“Over the years, we have traditionally deployed personnel for their national service after which many of them are left without meaningful employment,” he said and adding that to close this gap, management has engaged the services of a consultant to draft a policy document.
Board Chairman of NSS, Nee Odoi Tetteyfio, called for closer collaboration with the stakeholders especially the tertiary institutions in ensuring the new direction of the scheme to provide e-Platform for collecting information was successful.
Director General of the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, Prof Mohammed Salifu, commended the management of NSS and said the new system for the submission of the class list provided a huge resource for policy makers and the business community to rely on in their decisions making process.
Referring to the “Deployment for Employment” policy, he indicated that that was a whole new change of attitude and paradigm shift as far as NSS is concerned.”
A business desk report