Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has said the disassembling of the ‘middle school’ structure from the nation’s educational framework cleared out a critical affect on secondary education.
The ‘center school’ framework was supplanted with the current framework [Junior High School] which isolates lower secondary from the upper secondary taking after the instructive changes in 1987.
The center school framework utilized to be portion of the basic school which given an opportunity for understudies to either move from essential six straight to secondary school or through center school some time recently secondary school.
Concurring to Dr. Adutwum, there's a require for a change of the current framework to empower the nation to compete with others within the world.
“1987 instruction changes destroyed what utilized to be a bifurcated pathway where you'll go through the center school framework and skip to auxiliary otherwise you can move from essential six and go to auxiliary. We made a creature, we evacuated what utilized to be center school… In 1987, we told ourselves we wear’t require seven a long time of upper auxiliary… We borrowed a concept from the United States of America,†he said.
Tending to a press conference on the interventions by the Ministry on Sunday, he said in spite of the appropriation of the Junior High Framework, it did not give any imperative aptitudes to understudies to empower them to compete globally.
He included that “when the middle school was taken absent, we did not moreover supplant that with quality Junior High Schoolâ€.
For this reason, Dr. Adutwum famous that junior tall schools are being developed beneath the Akufo-Addo government which can have offices comparable to that of moment cycle schools to guarantee quality instruction.
“We have Junior Tall Schools that are beneath development presently and offices in there will be a bit like tall schools. It’s a pilot program and understudies who go through it would have three quality a long time of Junior Tall, move on to Senior Tall to do another three a long time, giving them six a long time making them competitive and making us compete within the world,†he expressed.
The pilot program will start with a few 10 junior tall schools
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