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We cannot allow empty-headed teachers to teach - MoE

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  • Busia 8 years ago

    Everything, demonstration. Sack all of them. If they come to demonstrate again, arrest and persecute them. Aboniifo.

  • insight to the bone 8 years ago

    Oyiwa, so Forbes too confirms we shall go to war as we are 100% sure NDC will rig the elections with election engineering , propaganda , corruption , bloated register , hegemony mixed with northern tribalism. Now that the dum ...
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  • a f a 8 years ago

    foolishness .talk about the students demonstration

  • energy minister 8 years ago

    I hate this educated fool with passion, this woman is a disgrace to womanhood and our education.
    Look at her stupid face and her hair do, she is not fit to be education minister, period!

  • duke 8 years ago

    WE CANNOT ALLOW HALF WITTED LEADERS TO LOOT THE COUNTRY. THIS MUST STOP

    OUR BILLIONS HAVE GONE INTO POCKETS OF FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND NDC PARTY HACKS

    Let the facts speak and Ghanaians make up your minds about who is foo ...
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  • Nana Kyei 8 years ago

    It is all indiscipline,

  • Ampabeng 8 years ago

    This cancer started (over 5 decades ago) from the top officers and has flown into the grass-root, now its cure is almost impossible. They started taking bribes from people wanting to enter the teaching field, when the low ran ...
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  • Area man 8 years ago

    Pls is canker

  • VOLTA 8 years ago

    Yourself and your deputy minister of education are empty - headed. Professor without management skills.

  • THOMAS DUKORMEVI 8 years ago

    GOOD MEASURE, BUT YOU SHOULD ALSO STOP TEACHERS HALF- BAKED SALARY, AND STOP BLOWING HUGE MONIES ON YOUR HALF-BAKED SELVES

  • Tetteh Sai 8 years ago

    Useless minister as the useless dead goat president.when will you tell your useless and incompetent boss Mahama to our arrears to us?I taught for 32 months and i was only given 3 months pay.Time will tell.

  • a f a 8 years ago

    a teacher with this kind of English ?poisonous teacher. you are a contributing factor to your students failure.

  • ul man 8 years ago

    how gud are you yourself, bockheaded minister

  • Busia 8 years ago

    You have no idea what is being discussed. This is not NDC/NPP matter. Remove your political and party lenses or get out of this kitchen.

  • akata 8 years ago

    The woman u just insulted was the past vice chancellor of UCC and a prof for that matter and the point about not allowing block headed people to teach our dear kids is valid

  • yaa 8 years ago

    vice chancellor and so what...go and see people with higher degrees but know nothing...ask her if she wasn't a third class student from the arts faculty in ucc. its all about links...

  • National Agenda 8 years ago

    1. Have investigated why your students are failing?
    2. Do you know how many times some people resat their exams but have now become perfect?
    3. Your office was boasting that you have increased training college admission by ...
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  • Kweku Donsuro 8 years ago

    You as Minister have failed. You admitted them in the first place when they were poor material but then you turn round to say they have failed. You must resign as Minister. Period.

  • one gh 8 years ago

    then madam minister sack all unprofessional teachers. period!

  • Cocaine Akufo Addo 8 years ago

    Too known people!

  • ALI 8 years ago

    BELIEVE ME ALL THESE STUDENTS PAID BRIBES AND WERE ADMITTED THROUGH THE BACK DOOR AND THEY KNOW. THEY DO IT TO UNIVERSITY LEVEL. IF NOT, WHY CAN'T SOME OF OUR TEACHERS SPEAK SIMPLE ENGLISH? IT IS TOO COMMON IN ASHANTI, WESTE ...
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  • COSBY 8 years ago

    Who checks standards in private schools where non professionals
    are employed to teach at basic schools all over the country? Is MoE not aware of this? What then are you waiting for?

  • attu zongo 8 years ago

    It's not your fault bcos you are OK by giving apor to competent and incompetent mahama.
    Who are going to teach in your forced free shs building in the bushes.
    Shame but Nana ADDO shall win 77 % hands down.

  • G M A 8 years ago

    Thank you madam for the sensitisation. There has been instances where teachers in some communities couldn't write their own cheques at the banks and have to be done for them by bank staff. How then can such teachers teach fut ...
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  • soth 8 years ago

    When it comes to teaching south Africans respect Ghanaians a lot. Madam minister don't allowed blocked headed to collapse our quality education

  • Cert. 'B' Teacher 8 years ago

    The fact that a student failed in one subject doesn't mean he or she is not good to teach. We learn a lot of crap materials in Ghana. It is not like that in the advanced countries. Equally most of you in the ministry are not ...
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  • Nii Okai 8 years ago

    When you the education minister could master the foolish and ignorant courage to ask the teachers to teach in Twi in our primary classrooms, what could you imagine? Is it not academic disaster we shall see starting from the t ...
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  • Akora 8 years ago

    Let them start that twi 'thing'. difficult to imagine how some people think, and such people usually get top positions, giving them the opportunity to ruin other people's lives.

  • DELA KWAKUVI WISDOM 8 years ago

    What an irony!!! But you expect ghanaians to allow this ndc to continue to govern after 2016.

    A big SELAH!!!

  • Prof Botswana. 8 years ago

    Madam stop your lecturer for sake of making extra money from printing handouts for sale to students.that practice is distroying education in Ghana up to university level.students should be made to buy books read and research ...
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  • Ghana Boy. 8 years ago

    Once ashat always ashanti.

  • Isaac k Okyere 8 years ago

    oh no dont say that she was my lecturer she was then a dr and now a prof

  • MARCUS AMPADU 8 years ago

    Our nation has reached a point where our education system must undergo root & branch reformation - from basic, secondary, up to tertiary, including teacher education.

  • micky 8 years ago

    I don't blame the students but the authorities. Because people who qualified to be admitted are not. Always so so protocols. The word to the wise............?

  • uncle Yaw,swedru. 8 years ago

    We can't allow empty headed teachers to teach.It'sgood.If this is d case then let's be vigilant on d performances of d distance education students being produced ny d various universities to go to d classrooms.Some who hv pas ...
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  • Cwasi Oduro Yeboah 8 years ago

    The Institute of Education and the government are making a fool out of us. How can you admit some one who failed in a 4 & 3years certificate examination into a college to be trained as a teacher? The government instruct UCC t ...
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  • Francis 8 years ago

    All of you should think of this one too.. How can you sack a student who has A in 8 subjects and fail in a one subject? Will you consider that as an empty headed teacher? Stupid statement by the minister.. Syllabus should be ...
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  • Asante 8 years ago

    Even this report has mistakes!! The writer must go back to school.

  • zakari 8 years ago

    ONLY God Will help

  • mahamudu Ali 8 years ago

    You are also empty. You pretended at IEA and worked for ndc to become a minister. Wicked woman

  • alhaji 8 years ago

    hmmmm Ghana education let change system of education over loaded syllabus u are insulting teachers are u not one of them.y always teachers u plp don't have respect for ghanaians teachers time Will tell we are on our way stop ...
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  • Mary 8 years ago

    is that what the minister is saying? if am able to teach at a private school after shs and the students passed very why can't I be. decision should be on the teachers on the field cos their are now on field

  • Abeiku SW2 London 8 years ago

    Same with the Ministers looking after GH affairs ... empty headed

  • Eric Santumah 8 years ago

    pls madam, it shouldn't be the case dat if u fail twice in a paper, u can't teach de others subjects dat u've had A n B+, no, ..... dat is y ur country is retrogression day in n out

  • Eric Santumah 8 years ago

    so give students de maximum time to write their resits papers as u have been doing n stop dat ur "spoil country" policies, pls

  • Man Ghana 8 years ago

    Look @ Jane oo u hu graduated wt third class fr ucc, u nw ve d edge to b talkin abt teachers hu r nt brilliant. Indeed tym changes ampaa, focus on hw to paid we teachers hu ve taught f d past 2yrs n stop dat ur tin

  • Zuquwati 8 years ago

    not

  • bb 8 years ago

    this woman and her unfortunate deputies are nothing but a disgrace to education ministery.

  • Kwaku Ntow 8 years ago

    We are disappointed in you, Professor. Look at what is going on in Ghana. Why have you kept quiet over all this mismanagement. It is not only about Education Ministry but it is all about Ghana. We need you to double up or we ...
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  • Fofie 8 years ago

    Don't forget that most of these students are failing because the very power crises. Lights are out for days, how do u expect them to study and pass so they can go n teach. Fix the fundamentals first before coming up with thes ...
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  • Zeus reu 8 years ago

    Am totally socked at the comment of our all knowing minister of education over a very sensitive issue she should be solving. She need to learn to culture her language. Her comment and how it is captured on Ghana web is an ins ...
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  • Ritter 8 years ago

    ndc govt.. 3ny3 S3 3hia nie

  • Ritter 8 years ago

    3ny3 de3 3hia nie

  • kofi (usa) 8 years ago

    YOU NEED TO RENDER AN APOLOGY TO THE TEACHER TRAINEES. BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT FINSHED THEIR PROGRAMMES ...THEY ARE UNQUALIFIED NOT UNINTELLIGENT.....
    Please visit www.universalchristianbookstore.com and shop for inspirational ...
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  • Adjei 8 years ago

    Why is it that teachers are not respected at all in Ghana. How many parents see to their wards leaning after school. GES OFFICIALS come to vet lesson notes and collect money instead of teachers competency and punctuality. Bri ...
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  • FORMER PRESIDENT 8 years ago

    My dear colleagues, don't worry. Am gone but with u. I know what ur going through but wait for what we're going to do just a moment.......

  • sam aninko 8 years ago

    pls,let's be frank here, that, knowledge and mastery of d subject matter are key to a good lesson delivery. every teacher should be good at:spelling, writing, drawing, pronunciation of words, simple math calculations, etc.a t ...
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  • George Nutsugah 8 years ago

    Now we have an unintelligent president and unintelligent ministers and that is the reason why Ghana is facing these hardships.

  • Paul 8 years ago

    Please conduct written/oral exams for all teachers and weed out the several unqualified ones currently in the classrooms.

  • KUMI 8 years ago

    They way she be am sure the virgina no sweet........