The Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, says the junior high school (JHS) framework needs the required quality to create competitive understudies and graduates for the nation.
He famous that the current JHS framework does not support ‘powerless’ or underprivileged understudies, including that there are no progressed offices that construct understudies for their career ways.
Talking at a press briefing on Sunday, the Bosomtwe MP described that the current JHS education isn't vigorous sufficient to plan understudies for higher instruction, not at all like the previous center framework.
Agreeing to him, the nation made “a creature [when] we expelled what utilized to be middle school, which gave individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds openings to capture up with the rest†in 1987.
“I think the weakest connect within the instruction framework is the junior tall school since others will go the junior tall school and do the quality auxiliary work; on the off chance that you meet those understudies at Wesley Young ladies, they are ahead of the bend, and they are planning to do much way better than you.â€
“We borrowed a concept from the Joined together States…three also three but we chosen that the primary three [JHS] isn't something that we’re reaching to be exceptionally concerned almost. Something has to be done approximately the week center which happens to be the junior tall school,†he said.
Ghana passed a unused enactment in 1987 which scrapped the at that point center school framework and supplanted it with the JHS framework, making the length of basic school instruction nine a long time rather than the past 10 a long time.
Prior to that, the Instruction Act of 1961 had presented the Free and Compulsory Basic Education (FCUBE) for all school-age children.
Right now, understudies who total the three-year Junior High School take a national test in arrange to qualify to the senior tall school.
Fruitful Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) candidates are at that point able to continue their instruction at the auxiliary level beneath the flagship Free SHS arrangement.
The Bosomtwe Part of Parliament implied at plans being put in put to survey and revamp the junior tall school.
“We have junior tall schools that beneath development presently and the offices in there will be rather like tall schools; everything that's within the tall school will be there.â€
“It’s a pilot program, and understudies who go through it would have had three a long time of quality junior tall school, move on to the tall school to do another three a long time, giving me six a long time making them competitive and making us compete with the rest of the world,†he guaranteed.
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