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Fate of Ghana’s Education System

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  • USMAN 10 years ago

    The university graduates in charge of education in Ghana are so useless and incompetent that politicians easily take them for a ride. This is why politicians manipulate the educational system at their own whims and caprices a ...
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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago

    Each government that comes to power plays Cinderella with our educational system. Let us revert to our 17 years' programme as that will solve and abate the youth unemployment debacle.

  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Primary was 6-7 , then Sec sch 5 years and 6th form 2 years and 3 years University . The reduction was 2 years . Now we have 6 3 3 = 12 years and 4 years university. Many systems in South Africa folow the same system . Howeve ...
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  • Kofi Yeboah 10 years ago

    What sense does it make to be changing the duration of education from 3 to 4 and back to 3? All because of the heightened greed and selfishness of our leaders. Students from Ghana are currently mass-produced; they do not know ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    So I agree with Mr eyiah in the call for National Agenda to guide our system. All parties who come to power MUST follow that AGENDA not major changes. Thanks Mr. Objective Writer!
    The likes of Ahoofe Okoampa with their PhDs ...
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  • Awo 10 years ago

    Nigeria, Sierra Leonne and Gambia are all doing 3 years senior secondary. Why should Ghana change to 4 years? Are our children less intelligent?

  • USMAN 10 years ago

    You can't compare Ghana and Nigeria on the duration of the SHS. This is because Whiles the Nigerians have the JAMB entrance exams to really prepare students for tertiary education we in Ghana go straight to the university bec ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    Thanks for your contribution to this important topic, USMAN. Where are the Okoampa (PhD), the TERRIBLY SPECIFIC & the Sarpongs/Frank Agyena Karikaris on this topic of significance?

  • EDUCATION 10 years ago

    Awo, are educational resources in those countries not more equitable (national distribution) that that of Ghana?
    The disparity in our education resources (teachers, classrooms, books) is too much! Unlike those countries you ...
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  • Ghanaba 10 years ago

    ???????????

  • Seyt 10 years ago

    Hnnn