99-Year-Old Graduates From College

At 99 years old, former teacher Akasease Kofi Boakye Yiadom graduated in Business from the Presbyterian University College in Ghana, West Africa, this week with the intention to fight the brain drain.

“Education has no end. As far as your brain can work all right, and your eyes can see all right, and your ears can hear very all right, if you go to school you can learn,” he told CNN.

Brain drain refers to the large-scale emigration of residents with technical skills or knowledge, which has been a big problem in Ghana.

An estimated 56 percent of doctors and 24 percent of nurses trained in Ghana now work abroad, and more than 40 percent of faculty positions at public universities are vacant, according to the International Organization for Migration.