The Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Education Winneba (UEW), Prof. Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw, has called on the government to do everything possible to put unemployed graduate teachers in the classrooms. He said it was unacceptable that a large number of university-trained professional teachers remained unemployed while a lot of classrooms in the countryside were without teachers. Speaking at this year’s matriculation of the College of Technology Education (Kumasi campus), Prof. Asabere-Ameyaw stated that any country that sought to use education as the cornerstone of its development could not afford to allow its professionally trained teachers to roam the streets. A total of 2,257 applicants were admitted to the Bachelors and postgraduate degree programmes at the Kumasi campus of the UEW. The vice chancellor explained that but for the lack of space and other teaching and learning materials, more applicants could have been admitted. Stressing the importance of university education to national development, Prof. Asabere-Ameyaw said regrettably, not much attention had been paid to improving infrastructure in the University of Education (UEW). “The government needs to pay particular attention to the university to enable us to put up the needed infrastructure, procure the needed equipment and other relevant resources to enable us to adequately train teachers who can function and remain functional in the 21st Century classroom,” he said. He revealed that a very disturbing information that had emerged from the Africa Learning Barometre created by the Centre for Universal Education in Brookings, indicated that 17 million of the nearly 128 million children of school age would never or may never attend school. “Perhaps even more shocking is the fact that 37 million more African children will learn so little in school that they will not be much better off than those kids who never attended school,” he observed. The vice chancellor was of the view that quite a number of the affected children were in Ghana, which called for concern. “I appeal to the government and all of us to do whatever possible to keep children in school,” he added.