Our educational system is in crisis – Former UEW Vice-Chancellor Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), has supported the decision for a evaluation of simple and secondary schooling in Ghana with instant well-thought-out measures to salvage it from collapse. He stated many kidshave beennow no longer literate and numerate at their degreesbecause of the failure to offer the properenter and sources, along with well-certifiedinstructors with the proper pedagogy. “So, in case you are in magnificence3, you need tostudymagnificence3 books however the majority are studyingmagnificence one books and some are doing magnificence books,” he determined. “We statedeach personmust be laptop literate howeverin case youvisita few Junior High Schools (JHS), there aren't anyt anycomputer systems to do anything. So, what are you coaching? Are you supporting them to attainvirtual knowledge?” he queried. Prof Anamuah-Mensah, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), blamed the scenario on the shortage of rightschooling for instructors on the brand new standard-primarily based totallysimplecollege curriculum. He stateddespite the fact that the shape and reason of the brand new curriculum carried the capabilityto convertsimpleschooling, the scenariocouldstay precarious if instructorshave beennow no longerwellskilledat the same. “What is being performeddesires to be directed in the sort ofmanner that the academicswho'recoaching are very cushtyand assured in coaching what they'recoaching, they'rethe usage of the propermethods and pedagogies to do it, and that they have the sources that they want to do it and that they have the help of the ministry and dad and mom in doing their work,” he stated. At the secondary schoolingdegree, Prof Anamuah-Mensah determined that the shortage of sourcesbecame a essentialtrouble of the shape which had caused many college students failing in examinations. He averred that due to the fact JHS becamea part ofsimplecollege, the scholarshave a tendency to assume as such and, therefore, struggled to manage in Senior High School. “It is like an entire new surroundingsdue to the fact the curriculum isn't like what they have been doing,” the previous Vice-Chancellor stressed. He, therefore, known as for a restructuring of secondary schoolingto feature JHS to SHS to realign the deliberatingcollege students. “From Junior High School, they'llrecognise that they'renow no longeractuallya part of the number onecollege; they have got moved to a betterdegreewithinside the Senior School. “So JHS must have comparablecenters like SHS. They must have instructorscertified to train JHS and be capable of even train SHS,” he stated. Prof Anamuah-Mensah mentioned efforts with the aid of using Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Minister for Education, to introduce a comparablegadget and expressed his help for the same.
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