http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/world/africa/17iht-educSide17.html?sq=africa%20education&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=1&adxnnlx=1297299619-mFsPh0M5utuqX+ntw9fEgQ
This article is about a man named Patrick Awuah, he is from Ghana. He went studying abroad and when he returned he had wanted to change the higher education system. He founded a liberal arts college, Ashesi University College, in 2002, at the Ghana's capital, Accra. When he first started it there were only 30 kids and now there is 470 students. The students are required to do community service before they can graduate. They are working on building a new campus that can accommodate 600 students.
I thought that this article was really good news for the people in Ghana . According to the United Nations Development Program Report, only 65% of people in Ghana are literate and only 5% of the population has done any type of post-secondary education. I think with the new opportunities they know have they will be able to make those numbers higher and give those people more opportunities for work. According to the career service director at the Ashesi University, the students that graduate from their college have 99% placement rate within 5 months of graduating.
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