Entrepreneurship Training for Senior High School Visual Arts Graduates (Case Studies Kumasi and Accra Metropolis)
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2008-07-15
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Senior High School Visual Arts graduates do not have jobs. Some find themselves in apprenticeship training under the tutelage of master craftsmen whiles others end up selling all kinds of products on the streets of Ghana. This research sought to find the causes of unemployment among Senior High School Visual Arts graduates who fail to further their education, and to identify and describe some entrepreneurial training centres in the Kumasi and Accra metropolis which provide vocational skills for Senior High School Visual Arts graduates. The study also sought to assess the effectiveness and impact of these centres in order to make recommendations as to how parents, government and non-governmental organizations can intervene to help the Senior High School Visual Arts graduates gain employment through entrepreneurial training. The qualitative research design was used by the researcher. Interviews and questionnaire were used to collect data to explain the importance of entrepreneurship training to Senior High School Visual Arts graduates and efforts being made by parents, government, non-governmental organizations, entrepreneurs, master Craftsmen and industries to help these Senior High School Visual Arts graduates. Interviews were used to collect data from Senior High School Visual Arts graduates who end up selling on the streets of Ghana as well as vocational training centres. Questionnaire was used to collect data from Senior High School Visual Arts graduates who are pursuing apprenticeship training and self-employed artists (master craftsmen). Data collected from first-hand experience was treated as primary data whiles those that were collected from other sources such as text books, brochures, journals and internet was treated as secondary data.
The study found that many Senior High School Visual Arts graduates were unemployed. Vocational training centres and government responsible to train the Senior High School Visual Arts graduates paid little attention to these people. Suggestions are that parents, entrepreneurs, vocational training centres government and non-governmental organizations should come to the aid of the Senior High School Visual Arts graduates by providing them with necessities to make them enter into gainful employment.
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A Thesis submitted to the School of Graduate Studies,
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art in Art Education