Abstract:
The study was conducted with the broad objective of assessing the the
role of employability and skills development courses: the case of School of
Business, University of Cape Coast. A purposive sampling technique was
employed in sampling outpatient and health professionals for this study in
which 7 lecturers and 3 past students of the related sample populations were
selected. Qualitative data was collected through the use of interviews which
were transcribed over multiple paly and analysed semantically by close
reading of the text
The results revealed that skills development is a central part of the
courses taught by the lecturers. It was concluded that, measurement of skills
among students depends largely on the objectives of the course as well class
presentations and assignments. In addition, although, some positive impacts
are being made, there is the need improve more on the impacts being made.
Lastly, lack of mechanisms in place to check up on the students makes it
difficult to know the impact.
It was recommended that, other colleges and schools in the University
of Cape Coast should make effort to ensure that programs and courses offered
to students prepare them adequately for the job market and the University of
Cape Coast School of Business should put in place mechanisms to trace the
effectiveness and the efficiency of their students in their respective places of
work.
