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25.11.2014 Feature Article

THE BENEFITS THAT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION CAN YIELD FOR THE YOUNG IN GHANA

THE BENEFITS THAT UNIVERSITY EDUCATION CAN YIELD FOR THE YOUNG IN GHANA
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Some people think that to have a successful life you have to have university education, while others think otherwise.

It is common for some youngsters to give up on university education due to either their preference to work or their incapability of affording a higher education. It is my view that young people should be encouraged to attend university.

The benefits that college education can yield for the young are truly overwhelming. The most significant one is that college students are able to acquire theoretical knowledge through taking a variety of lectures, which enables them to get a basic perspective of everything in life. This will be very helpful to youngsters' future life. Also, the campus life is generally regarded as a precious part of a person's life because college students develop maturity, independence and important abilities in university. Besides, young people can obtain degree or certificate after graduating from the college, which makes them more competitive in the modern society where the competition is increasingly stiff.

On the other hand, some individuals argue that people can succeed even without university education. It is true that there exist some successful people who have not attended university or drop out of college but are still making it in life and some of them have done incredible things without ever having finished college,the great businessman Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg spring to mind.However, not everyone can become another bill gates or Mark Zuckerberg. As an ordinary person, we would be well-advised to attend university to gain knowledge and skills as well as the degree and certificate that are still very essential for us to get a good job.

My view is that university education is necessary to the young. I think it would be a great loss for us to miss the campus life. Therefore, young people who can afford to attend college should cherish this precious opportunity.

Knowledge is becoming the most important thing in today's world. Good specialists are needed everywhere. University education provides us with useful skills and living experience for having a good job in the future. Having a higher education is AN essential part of life for someone who wants to be successful. I have three reasons to support this point.

Firstly, a person who wants to have a good career must be not ONLY well experienced but also intelligent. University is something like the centre of information, where a student spendS A GREAT DEAL OF time studying important things about his subject and THE themes, connected with it. Despite THE popularity of the Internet, some sparse specific materials are available only at the university libraries. Moreover, university is the place where a student can meet a huge amount of competent people among the teaching staff and other students.

Secondly, I am sure that relationships are the essential condition in making a good career. Studying at the university, we find many new friends connected with our future profession. It is possible that some of them will be directors of big corporations or take management positions in government. From this point of view, today's friends from the university may become future partners or the people who can help in solving some OF YOUR problems.

Finally, the university provides us with very important skill in studying new subjects. For example, in my technical university some teachers prefer to just give us the reading materials and to explain the hardest parts of it instead of forcing us to write the full course of lectures. And in the exam we should show them that we have understood this course perfectly. It is good experience in the self-studying. As a result, when I wanted to get a job related to economics, it took me just a week to know about this subject; more than enough to pass quite a hard interview.

In conclusion, the essential part in making a good career is studying at the University. It gives us wide knowledge, valuable friends and academic skills for future development. Therefore, I suppose that everyone who wants to succeed should have a good education first of all.

BY EMMANUEL ASHITEY,
FROM UNIVERSITY OF GHANA,
PSYCHOLOGY AND INFORMATION STUDIES LEVEL 200,
0540981328.

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