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The President of the Ghana Christian University (GhanaCU) at Amrahia in the Adentan Municipality, Dr Manuel Adjei, has observed that special emphasis on tertiary education through effective management can also earn Ghana an economic growth. This, he said, can be done by extending advanced transformational service through quality education and the implementation of an educational methodology that is geared towards excellence and relevance. Dr Manuel Adjei said, "We at GhanaCU believe that our nation will be unable to see a better Ghana unless we all uphold a principle of economic growth through effective management of education with special emphasis on tertiary education, spiritual transformation of persons and a social transformation of systems that suppress and hinder development." The GhanaCU President, who was speaking at the eighth graduation and the 48th annual graduation ceremony of the school, said GhanaCU, through transformational skills and quality educational systems, has continued to attract several students with a good number from abroad. The graduation was on the theme 'The effective management of tertiary education as an emerging non-traditional foreign income earner,' and Dr Manuel said as Ghana continues to benefit greatly from GhanaCU's services to foreign students, the government should view the innovation as their school's economic contribution and growth factor to the country's foreign earnings. As the school therefore works to assist the educational efforts and foreign currency earnings of the country, the President called on the government to offer the school some interventions. In a speech read on his behalf, Joseph Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo, who is the Greater Accra Regional (GAR) Minister and Member of Parliament for the Kpone-Katamanso Constituency, who was also the guest of honour, commended GhanaCU for introducing new and work-related courses as a supplement to its traditional programmes in theology, which have attracted several foreign students into the university. He agreed that tertiary educational institutions can contribute to Ghana's foreign earnings if the management of the economy will not be looking at only the primary and secondary goods like cocoa, timber, oil and gas. On the management of the country's universities, the GAR Minister said, "The effective management of our universities lies not only in the hands of the government but everyone, especially the lecturers, university staff, parents and the students." Concluding, he called on lecturers to come out with effective tools that can be helpful to boost the curriculum of the university syllabus to turn students into more creative-minded leaders than creative-minded job seekers. The eighth congregation saw a total of 62 students graduating from the School of Development Management, Higher Certificate in Theology and Special Certificates.