Some Underlying Reasons Acconnting for Fashion Graduates of the Polytechnics not Operating iu the Fashion Industry

Abstract

Growing intricacy in all aspects of work, and community life tied with continual calls for educational reform over the past few decades present various challenges to professionals in occupational and technical education.  The call for review of outmoded curricula and to develop innovative programmes to meet the challenges of work trends is apparently becoming a global occurrence.  The global context in which young people reside plays an ever more important part in the economic growth of a nation, keeping in mind that the education system should cater for the manpower requirement for the economic development of the country.  The paper looks at the underlying reasons why young graduates from the Ghanaian polytechnics were drifting away from the very industry for which they were trained.  Graduates of 5 polytechnics were snowballed for the study.  It was discovered that a large number of them were operating outside their core industry for which they were trained.  Low competencies were cited as accounting for the drift.  Reforms to enhance the quality of technical education at the polytechnics to enable them become dynamic, demand-driven, quality-conscious, and competitive at both national and global levels were recommended.