Thank you Mr. Emmanuel. I agreed with you. We need to restructure our education system to meet our values and ethics, nevertheless our way of live etc
Thank you Mr. Emmanuel. I agreed with you. We need to restructure our education system to meet our values and ethics, nevertheless our way of live etc
George 11 years ago
Young man it is too early for you to understand why our educational system does not translate to our development. When you grow things will become clearer and you could engage us in a serious discussion thereafter. Do know ... read full comment
Young man it is too early for you to understand why our educational system does not translate to our development. When you grow things will become clearer and you could engage us in a serious discussion thereafter. Do know that more than half of Ghana's population has no education? So what education are you actually talking about? In fact, your discussion will become relevant if we even have the educational system that you claim is impeding our development.
Kwesi Sakyi 11 years ago
We need to build on what we already have and modify it by and by. I do not buy your idea of throwing away what we already have for the sake of Ghananisation, indigenisation and Africanisation because we live in a global villa ... read full comment
We need to build on what we already have and modify it by and by. I do not buy your idea of throwing away what we already have for the sake of Ghananisation, indigenisation and Africanisation because we live in a global village and our educational system must be in sync with it.
mensah abrampa 11 years ago
First of all what you're saying has nothing to do with Nkrumahism.We are part of the global village system and we need to approach our education reforms with a world outlook.
I agree our educational system and teaching nee ... read full comment
First of all what you're saying has nothing to do with Nkrumahism.We are part of the global village system and we need to approach our education reforms with a world outlook.
I agree our educational system and teaching need to change.Quality education is not a luxury. It's the gateway to a middle class life; the surest path to the middle class and a competitive economy.
With today's businesses becoming more globally inter connected and reliant upon technology we need to educate people for the emerging global market.
To begin well, we need to provide high quality early education for all children.The beginning years of a child's life are critical for building the early foundation needed for success later in school and in life.Education begins at home with parents who read to their kids, set limits to after school non curricular activities and instil a life long love of learning. Parents must help their kids with homework if they're able to.
The government must prioritize education by spending heavily on education and abandoning frivolous and profligate spending . If we cannot invest in our children who're the future then we have no part in the future and it'd be better we forget all about it. Instead of appropriating or wasting fat salaries, huge benefits and allowances and end of service benefits for the executive, Judiciary and the Legislative arms of the government, a very proactive administration looking into the future development and growth of this nation would have wisely spent the huge money into quality education. To help students better afford a college education in the US, President Obama ended billions of dollars in subsidies wasted on banks and used the savings to double investments in Pell Grants.He established a college tax credit for students and their families worth up to $10,000 over 4 years of college.He set a goal to lead the world in college graduates by 2020, and cut the growth of college tuition and fees in half over the next 10years, a goal that will save the typical student thousands of dollars a year, and proposed bringing together community colleges and businesses to train 2 million Americans for good jobs that actually exist now and are waiting to be filled. The second part of his plan is to strengthen public schools in every community and compete for jobs of the future. The third part is recruiting and preparing 100,000 math and science teachers. This is the way to go, Ghana, but unfortunately we keep encountering priority inversion.
President Obama is investing in education,research and technology to grow the economy for the long term . He realizes that manufacturing is an essential building block of the economy because it sparks innovation, generates higher wage jobs and strengthens entire communities.We must abandon our import oriented economy for a manufacturing and export driven economy. In this way the nation can absorb our numerous graduates into well paying middle class jobs.
Lastly, we must ensure that hardwork leads to a decent living. For far too long we've discouraged innovation and ingenuity by rewarding laziness,militancy, cronyism and sycophancy with juicy contracts and well paying jobs and undeserved salaries.
Tommy 11 years ago
Why didn't you write the article in Fanti. In any case it is not too late, you can show me where to get the translation done so I can understand, or better still just upload it to this very site, the Fanti version I mean.
Why didn't you write the article in Fanti. In any case it is not too late, you can show me where to get the translation done so I can understand, or better still just upload it to this very site, the Fanti version I mean.
Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago
Our education system is froth with lecturers/instructors who are themselves ill educated and or lack intellectual thought processes. In Ghana, like most African nations, we equate being schooled and or earning classroom crede ... read full comment
Our education system is froth with lecturers/instructors who are themselves ill educated and or lack intellectual thought processes. In Ghana, like most African nations, we equate being schooled and or earning classroom credentials with wisdom. As such society has a tendency to acquiesce to talking points from people with post graduate degrees. It is not so much about our grading system but our medium of instruction and understands of the very subject matter people with degrees teach.
For example, a review of economic literature by most of Ghana’s PhD holders in economic tend to write using economic models and principles to justify and or defend their thesis or dissertations. However, from a renowned Ghanaian economists by the name Elizabeth Asiedu of Kansa University, the very theories and economic models that are used by economists to show a link between foreign Direct Investments (FDI’s) and black market exchange premiums do not hold true even within African nations; there is a disconnected effect of the theory/principles on Sub-Saharan African, SSA, nations and non SSA nations. Are theories not supposed to hold true if all the conditions hold true? Yet in Ghana some of the published articles by people with PhD in economic who teach and write these glorious papers cite economic theories that are fully maximized in western civilized nations but, I dare say, but do not have what it takes to really apply them in Ghana. Their basic data and statistical methodologies stink to high heaven but they do have their PhD’s and what they say goes; students in Ghana dare not challenge these mini-god lecturer/instructors.
Thank you Mr. Emmanuel. I agreed with you. We need to restructure our education system to meet our values and ethics, nevertheless our way of live etc
Young man it is too early for you to understand why our educational system does not translate to our development. When you grow things will become clearer and you could engage us in a serious discussion thereafter. Do know ...
read full comment
We need to build on what we already have and modify it by and by. I do not buy your idea of throwing away what we already have for the sake of Ghananisation, indigenisation and Africanisation because we live in a global villa ...
read full comment
First of all what you're saying has nothing to do with Nkrumahism.We are part of the global village system and we need to approach our education reforms with a world outlook.
I agree our educational system and teaching nee ...
read full comment
Why didn't you write the article in Fanti. In any case it is not too late, you can show me where to get the translation done so I can understand, or better still just upload it to this very site, the Fanti version I mean.
Our education system is froth with lecturers/instructors who are themselves ill educated and or lack intellectual thought processes. In Ghana, like most African nations, we equate being schooled and or earning classroom crede ...
read full comment