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The Minister of Education, Professor Jane Nana Opoku Agyemang has charged industries to be prepared to train graduates from the tertiary institutions across the country to enable them fit into the job market. This follows widely help perceptions that majority of university graduates are not trained to fit the job market; leading to rising figures of graduate unemployment in the country. Speaking to Citi News however, the Minister refuted these assertions saying, �I don�t believe our graduates are useless, I take very strong exceptions to those comment� she said She opined that graduates who are deemed useless may �need is a little push and a little help but we know they are not materials we cannot use.� She also took the opportunity to encourage industries to disclose their preference to the Educational Ministry to enable them factor those preferences into the educational syllabus. The President, John Mahama on Monday called for greater collaboration between industry and academia to enable graduates fit into the job market. This collaboration according to him will reduce the rising figures of unemployed graduates in the country He made this known during a two-day national conference on bridging gap between education, training and industry. A communiqu� issued at the end of the conference called for an urgent review of Ghana�s educational system to allow tertiary institutions produce all rounded students who will easily fit into the job market.