Ghana’s educational system ineffective – Meridian Uni boss

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• ofa k 9 years ago

  u very right

  u very right

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• Raila Odinga 9 years ago

  Indeed, this is a educational system that broken and rotten.Senior JSS products can't even fill out simple job application forms.
  
  The professors that we produce are just paper professors with no practical solutions to the ...
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  Indeed, this is a educational system that broken and rotten.Senior JSS products can't even fill out simple job application forms.
  
  The professors that we produce are just paper professors with no practical solutions to the very problems that the country is currently embroiled in.
  
  All they do is talk, talk and talk.... like that stupid so-called professor, Amoako-Baah.

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• The mask 9 years ago

  Political parties in power tend to reward communities they like and ignore others. This is usually based on ethnicity or votes garnered.
  
  Some communities have had this problem since Independence. A certain phenomenon can n ...
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  Political parties in power tend to reward communities they like and ignore others. This is usually based on ethnicity or votes garnered.
  
  Some communities have had this problem since Independence. A certain phenomenon can now be observed in the country.

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• JDiM 9 years ago

  Nothing is better in Ghana once we have opportunistic clown president in power Ghanaians must not be expecting any goodies.Mahama is a useless one indeed.

  Nothing is better in Ghana once we have opportunistic clown president in power Ghanaians must not be expecting any goodies.Mahama is a useless one indeed.

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• Joe Turkey 9 years ago

  In a country where youth and/or graduate unemployment rate is an unspeakable number, the least you can do is to rush students out of school to pour on the streets. They said we needed graduates who would be in sync with our e ...
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  In a country where youth and/or graduate unemployment rate is an unspeakable number, the least you can do is to rush students out of school to pour on the streets. They said we needed graduates who would be in sync with our economy. Nonsense, who said we could not have done that by developing NVTI, Technical schools and Polytechnics alongside GCE? And why did they all, including the advocates like Jerry Rawlings, send their children to schools in the UK to write GCE. He even has a private tutor at home to prepare Ezenator for GCE. You only have to look on our streets to see what damage the (P)NDC has caused to the country. See how many "in-sync" graduates they have poured on the streets selling mobile phone "top ups"

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• Kwame 9 years ago

  It is a fact that Ghanaian universities have educational relationship with universities around the world. The output of those universities are good for the job market, but Ghanaian who have the same programme with them are no ...
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  It is a fact that Ghanaian universities have educational relationship with universities around the world. The output of those universities are good for the job market, but Ghanaian who have the same programme with them are not qualified for the job market. This man is just making pretext to employ other people rather than Ghanaians.

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• MR. NEVER 9 years ago

  Dear Kwame, please just reason out.
  Education these days is nothing. Its whom you know. If you know how to read n write, how to be active and direct; that's it. Diplomas, Masters, n PhD's in most cases slow you down to get w ...
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  Dear Kwame, please just reason out.
  Education these days is nothing. Its whom you know. If you know how to read n write, how to be active and direct; that's it. Diplomas, Masters, n PhD's in most cases slow you down to get what you want. You need to swallow pride in other to join the band wagon. Your Ghanaian certificate don't buy a shit...remember that. "ITS WHOM YOU KNOW n NOT WHAT YOU KNOW" wofa Kwame, what you know is irrelevant. This is the world we live in. It's in everywhere, and it's universal anthem, so be nice people now for you don't know whom you are going to meet in future.

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• SAY IT AS IT IS 9 years ago

  Sir u're right . it is just a plty talking to smeone with hiegher education in our country . one start to think if these are the peoplle the cocoa farmer has toil to educate?
  But they are the kings and gueens in out mist . w ...
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  Sir u're right . it is just a plty talking to smeone with hiegher education in our country . one start to think if these are the peoplle the cocoa farmer has toil to educate?
  But they are the kings and gueens in out mist . whatever they is right and we hear them in our law hoiuses or to put it right paliament.
  People u exppect to know much and talk sense talk as kids sometimes even the kids talk sese than them. Yet because we think they have got such education we takje them to be right in thier heads.
  When students only read the text books just to pass thier examantions and nothing eles they become stale. They can' t think . In our county every speaks the same english and one word means one word only.
  Is this not a pity???

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• kofi 9 years ago

  Government n de so called profs in de country have turned deaf ears to this plight. DE universities are full of CHEW N POUR. NOTHING PRACTICAL. egHw Will memorizing de number of bones in de skull help a dying patient in de w ...
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  Government n de so called profs in de country have turned deaf ears to this plight. DE universities are full of CHEW N POUR. NOTHING PRACTICAL. egHw Will memorizing de number of bones in de skull help a dying patient in de ward? NONSENSE

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• Paa Joe 9 years ago

  DO YOU KNOW WHAT,STUDENTS AT A OUR SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES NEED NOT TO BE BLAMED, BUT, RESTS ON POOR QUALITY OF PROFESSORS, LECTURERS AND TEACHERS TEACHING IN SCHOOLS AND AT OUR HIGH INSTITUTIONS.
  
  UNLESS THESE PROFESSORS, ...
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  DO YOU KNOW WHAT,STUDENTS AT A OUR SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES NEED NOT TO BE BLAMED, BUT, RESTS ON POOR QUALITY OF PROFESSORS, LECTURERS AND TEACHERS TEACHING IN SCHOOLS AND AT OUR HIGH INSTITUTIONS.
  
  UNLESS THESE PROFESSORS, LECTURERS AND TEACHERS ARE PAID ON '''PERFORMANCE''TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMPETENCE,THE NATION WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE THESE TYPE OF GRADUATES FOR NON SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE COUNTRY.
  
  DON'T BLAME THE STUDENTS AND GRADUATES, THE FAULT OF OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IS TO BE FOUND ON
  THE POOR QUALITY OF TEACHERS,PROFESSORS, LECTURERS AT OUR PRIMARY SECONDARY,VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOLS AND HIGHER INSTITUTIONS.

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• PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 9 years ago

  A little boy comes home from school one day and asks his dad if he can explain the difference between theory and reality to him.
  The Dad questions why and the kid says "it's for school, can you just help me out?"
  The dad th ...
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  A little boy comes home from school one day and asks his dad if he can explain the difference between theory and reality to him.
  The Dad questions why and the kid says "it's for school, can you just help me out?"
  The dad thinks for second and then says, "ok, what I want you to do is go upstairs and ask your mom and your sister if they'd sleep with a stranger for $1,000,000"
  The kid says, "what?" And Dad says "just do it, it'll help me explain."
  So the kid goes upstairs, asks and walks back down.
  Dad: did you do it? Kid: yeah Dad: Well what'd they say? Kid: well, they both said yes Dad: okay so, in theory we'd have a $1,000,000, but in reality we're living with a couple of whores.

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• A SON OF THE LAND 9 years ago

  WHY DO WE HAVE ALL THESE FOREIGN MISSIONS ABROAD? IF WE ARE BEREFT OF IDEAS TO PUSH OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FORWARD, WHY NOT LET THESE INSTITUTIONS ABROAD UNDERSTUDY THAT OF OTHER ADVANCED COUNTRIES, THUS CREATING A RESOURCE P ...
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  WHY DO WE HAVE ALL THESE FOREIGN MISSIONS ABROAD? IF WE ARE BEREFT OF IDEAS TO PUSH OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FORWARD, WHY NOT LET THESE INSTITUTIONS ABROAD UNDERSTUDY THAT OF OTHER ADVANCED COUNTRIES, THUS CREATING A RESOURCE POOL THAT HELPS OUR PROFESSORS TO COME OUT WITH A STANDARD EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FOR GHANA?
  
  IT LOOKS LIKE THE PROBLEM LIES WITH THE SYSTEM WE INHERITED FROM THE BRITISH. THE PNDC TRIED TO CHANGE IT, BUT DID THEY CONSULT OUR EDUCATIONAL EXPERTS ON THE FIELD AND THOSE RETIRED FOR THEIR INPUT, OR IT WAS JUST SOME WHISKEY-DRINKING FOOLS WHO SAT DOWN AT A ROUND TABLE AND CAME UP WITH SOME STINKY IDEAS THAT CULMULATED INTO JSS/SSS WHICH THEY EVENTUALLY DUMPED ON THE WHOLE NATION?
  
  GHANA AS AT NOW ONLY PRODUCES ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE. GO ELSEWHERE AND THE NATIONALS COMING OUT OF SCHOOL SPEAK AT LEAST THREE FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
  
  MOST GHANAIANS MIGRATING TO LIVE ABROAD, ESPECIALLY IN NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES ONLY BEGIN TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE BECAUSE THEY NEED IT TO SURVIVE IN THOSE COUNTRIES.
  
  I PERSONALLY WENT TO A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN GHANA WHERE FRENCH WAS TAUGHT, BUT NO STUDENT IN THE END TOOK IT TO THE O' LEVEL. I GUESS THIS IS HAPPENING IN MOST SCHOOLS AT THE SSS LEVEL NOW.
  
  WE SERIOUSLY NEED AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS THAT TAKES CARE OF ALL THESE THINGS, BE IT IN A VOCATIONAL, TECHNICAL, BUSINESS OR SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL. THEN TALK ABOUT THE POLY-TECHNICS, TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES AND OTHER HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
  
  OTHERWISE, OUR POSTERITY COMING OUT OF GHANA ARE NO MATCH ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE; ONLY GOOD-FOR-GHANA-MENTALITY PRODUCTS, EVEN IF THEY HAVE PH.D.

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• Paa Joe 9 years ago

  HOW LONG AND HOW MNY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TALK ON THE FAILING EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM HANDED TO US BY THE DEPARTING COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION FIFTY EIGHT(58)YEARS AGO IN GHANA.
  
  IT SEEMS TO BE THAT, WE STILL DO NOT KNOW WHAT EDUCAT ...
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  HOW LONG AND HOW MNY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TALK ON THE FAILING EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM HANDED TO US BY THE DEPARTING COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION FIFTY EIGHT(58)YEARS AGO IN GHANA.
  
  IT SEEMS TO BE THAT, WE STILL DO NOT KNOW WHAT EDUCATION MEANS TO A NATION.
  
  JUST IMAGINE OUR UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA PRODUCING GRADUATES FOR NON PRODUCTIVE WORK AND ALSO FOR THEM THEM TO DEPEND ON THE GOVERNMENT FOR EVERYTHING-BUNGALOW,CAR,RESEARCH ALLOWANCE,HIGH SALARY, GARDEN bOY, COOK AND hOUSE SERVANTS.
  
  WHAT PART OF THE WORLD ARE WE LIVING.

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• Louis Bening 9 years ago

  The minister of education is bereft of ideas. Why can she tell the president in his face that education in Ghana has collapsed? We pretend as a people for political reasons that everything is working well yet ministers and th ...
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  The minister of education is bereft of ideas. Why can she tell the president in his face that education in Ghana has collapsed? We pretend as a people for political reasons that everything is working well yet ministers and their deputies are serouly studying outside the country and no one can talk about it. Very soon teachers in Ghana will write examination questions on the board for pupils to write their end of term. Heads are informed not to charge exams fees yet capitation grants are equally in arrears as other statutory payments. Students in the northern part have to sit back till previous term feeding grants are paid. Why Mr president. Which of your children schools in Ghana?

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• Dessy 9 years ago

  The who education system need a revamp. They should involve vocational and technical training

  The who education system need a revamp. They should involve vocational and technical training

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• Kwame Amo 9 years ago

  It is up to the students to wise up and learn practical stuff on their own instead of doing "Chew and pour". Never worried my skin about too much theory and after school I have never applied for jobs yet always have jobs to d ...
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  It is up to the students to wise up and learn practical stuff on their own instead of doing "Chew and pour". Never worried my skin about too much theory and after school I have never applied for jobs yet always have jobs to do.

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• salam 9 years ago

  Hmmm, we now have young people who can only chew pour and that is what the lecturers understand.

  Hmmm, we now have young people who can only chew pour and that is what the lecturers understand.

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• Kofi 9 years ago

  It's a system left behind by so called "colonial masters" that trains us to run after the "master" on our own.
  Wake up!

  It's a system left behind by so called "colonial masters" that trains us to run after the "master" on our own.
  Wake up!

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• Gomda Zoo 9 years ago

  Is one million dollar truth that cannot be taken away.But what I sense Ghana Authority don't want that direction bcs it's going to cost them greatly switching since the lecturer s themselves don't have qualifications on the p ...
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  Is one million dollar truth that cannot be taken away.But what I sense Ghana Authority don't want that direction bcs it's going to cost them greatly switching since the lecturer s themselves don't have qualifications on the practical besides thr theory.But they should make a step by investing the oil revenue to begin.As the saying goes teach a child to be able to catch fish so that when you're gone he won't go hungry.

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• kofi Agyemang-Marack Design. 9 years ago

  The awardance of certificate is given on merit in terms of 1:academics 2:creativity 3:resourcefulness among other things. If school authorities do not look at these factors then we will always have people occupying offices i ...
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  The awardance of certificate is given on merit in terms of 1:academics 2:creativity 3:resourcefulness among other things. If school authorities do not look at these factors then we will always have people occupying offices idle without solving problems immediately.There are people who are academically good but are not creative and resourceful,I tag them the chew and pour students....

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• Yussif Fuseini 9 years ago

  You betrayed Ghanaians when we all thought you were neutral in the IEA presidential debate,not knowing you were wolf in a sheep skin.You ve really been rewarded but ve lost your credibility forever.

  You betrayed Ghanaians when we all thought you were neutral in the IEA presidential debate,not knowing you were wolf in a sheep skin.You ve really been rewarded but ve lost your credibility forever.

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