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OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS IN CRISIS ? FORMER UEW VICE-CHANCELLOR

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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 kids have been now no longer literate and numerate at their degrees because of the failure to offer the proper enter and sources, along with well-certified instructors with the proper pedagogy. “So, in case you are in magnificence 3, you need to study magnificence 3 books however the majority are studying magnificence one books and some are doing magnificence books,” he determined. “We stated each person must be laptop literate however in case you visit a few Junior High Schools (JHS), there aren't anyt any computer systems to do anything. So, what are you coaching? Are you supporting them to attain virtual knowledge?” he queried. Prof Anamuah-Mensah, in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA), blamed the scenario on the shortage of right schooling for instructors on the brand new standard-primarily based totally simple college curriculum. He stated despite the fact that the shape and reason of the brand new curriculum carried the capability to convert simple schooling, the scenario could stay precarious if instructors have been now no longer well skilled at the same. “What is being performed desires to be directed in the sort of manner that the academics who're coaching are very cushty and assured in coaching what they're coaching, they're the usage of the proper methods 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 schooling degree, Prof Anamuah-Mensah determined that the shortage of sources became a essential trouble of the shape which had caused many college students failing in examinations. He averred that due to the fact JHS became a part of simple college, the scholars have a tendency to assume as such and, therefore, struggled to manage in Senior High School. “It is like an entire new surroundings due 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 schooling to feature JHS to SHS to realign the deliberating college students. “From Junior High School, they'll recognise that they're now no longer actually a part of the number one college; they have got moved to a better degree withinside the Senior School. “So JHS must have comparable centers like SHS. They must have instructors certified 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 comparable gadget and expressed his help for the same.

 

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