Member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely-Hayford has advised students of the Ghana Institute of Journalism to focus more on empowering themselves than on trivial things such as fashion.
According to him, most of the students at the University, a large number of whom are females, are more concerned about what they wear than their training.
“Go to the Ghana Institute of Journalism, GIJ, and look at the students who are coming out, majority of them are females and when you look at it, you will see that it is more of a fashion parade…so when we are talking about quality of journalism, they should tone down on the fashion and get a little bit more serious with the actual content,” he added.
Mr. Casely-Hayford made the remark on Citi FM’s news analysis programme, The Big Issue on Saturday on the back of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s encounter with the media.
The President met some journalists in the country at the Flagstaff House where he was asked questions on a number of topics spanning various sectors.
Ghanaians subsequently lambasted some of the journalists accusing them of asking irrelevant questions with a report by the Media Foundation for West Africa also questioning the relevance of some of the questions that were asked.
‘Sexist, baseless’
Meanwhile, unhappy with the remarks of Mr. Casely-Hayford, the Students’ Representative Council of GIJ issued a statement chastising the Occupy Ghana member and demanded an apology from him.
“Casely Hayford must apologize and retract his statement against female students of the Ghana Institute of Journalism. The SRC finds his statement to be very sexist, unfortunate, unwarranted, unguided, without basis and an insult to the values of the Ghana Institute of Journalism,” the statement added.
Source: Citifmonline.com
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Sydney is dammed right. The SRC is blind to the students inappropriate dressing
THAT IS THE HARD TRUTH SRC. YOUR LECTURERS CLOSE THEIR EYES TO THESE THINGS BUT THAT IS THE HARD TRUTH. YOU BETTER BE SERIOUS ESPERCIALLY WITH YOUR SPOKEN ENGLISH.
You’re 💯% right! Most females...although not just the females...study journalism because it’s their last resort at gaining a tertiary education. They’re not interested in journalism. They can’t even write a journalistic article about fashion! They don’t know any of the specialized words that are needed to write an article on fashion, let alone politics, hence the mediocre questions asked at the meet-the-press! I would suggest that students who enter the GIJ or any other journalism school first gain a bachelor in a specific program, eg politics, economics, science, law, visual arts, the arts, etc, BEFORE they continue with 2 years of journalism. As things are right now though, it will continue to be a fashion parade with each girl thinking she’s qualified to be on tv and show off the latest gtp, wig and make-up!