Haruna Iddrisu 'blocks' attempt to sneak poor performing students into A-listed schools

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  • NPP SENIOR CITIZEN 3 months ago

    Since Free SHS started almost 70% of students performance are very very poor and no doubt University lecturers keep saying their teachings becoming very difficult. Mahama should revamp the education system. Although just few ...
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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 3 months ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own life with medicine.....for instance 15 paracetamol at once......or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide. ...

  • FRANKIE 3 months ago

    The centralised Computer Placement System is simply not working. It's too stressful, frustrating and chaotic. It's best to revert to the old system of each school admitting their own students who choose and qualify for admis ...
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  • The Motherland 3 months ago

    I feel sorry for the sickling styling himself as MUMBI SERAKI. It appears he has lost a few marbles upstairs.

  • Karikakchar 3 months ago

    The automatics placement was flawless when it was introduced under the visionary Osafo Marfo. The challenge started whe quota and all sorts of parameters were introduced. Let's be fair, students from the underprivileged areas ...
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  • Koti 3 months ago

    Yes, the 30% quota for students in a catchment area of a school brought the system on its knees. How does the system selects students from a catchment area? Who needs a better school, a student who performed poorly or who did ...
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  • Maame 3 months ago

    He's better than you. Jealousy!

  • Cameraman 3 months ago

    Rabid human he is. He is in the last stage of the infection.

  • Accra 3 months ago

    Sensible point, man.

  • Pelicles. 3 months ago

    Who was president in Ghana from 2012-2016, and can you come up with his educational records during those years?

  • Ernest 3 months ago

    U are evil like mahama who destroyed all de good things of pro poor policies for Ghanaians

  • KB 3 months ago

    I beg to disagree with you Minister. It is unfair on the part of the state to categorise schools as A,B,C,D,E using resources provided by the state. It implies that an E category school is near rubbish and will be so forever ...
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  • The-ONE 3 months ago

    Massa you got it all wrong, and so was the system under NPP. It doesn't matter if you go to sito or private school, all the students have to do is get a good grade. Someone can go to sito and get a better grade than someone w ...
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  • Ntsiful 3 months ago

    Great. It is very sad for the country to recognize this categorization but still want all the schools to write the same exam and expect the same level of performance from all the students and the schools.
    Bravo!

  • Alhaji Moro 3 months ago

    Stop bragging Mr minister. People are paying through agents to the heads of those so called category A schools to get their children accepted.
    This is the time headteacher make money so go back to bed and stop the empty nois ...
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  • obsver 3 months ago

    He must check then BOSOMTWE STEM ACADEMY for himself ooooooooo.
    The rot there!!!!!!! Hmmmmm.
    Especially the complicity of the Headmaster and the IT Coordinator. Slots are being sold to the highest beader with pour performan ...
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  • Vibes 3 months ago

    Dear Obsver,

    Respectfully, I believe your comment about BOSOMTWE STEM ACADEMY is both misleading and deeply unfair. Do you truly knew the school?
    I went there with my son and I was warmly welcom
    Pleased with the kind o ...
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  • Omaga 3 months ago

    Please send this number 0530377281 hi through SMS. Thanks

  • Neutralman 3 months ago

    Why should the Minister want to dump non performing students on some unfortunate teachers who are teaching in category D or E schools and are expected to produce the same result as those teaching in the so called category A s ...
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  • Coach 3 months ago

    Exactly — that’s the deeper bite. If the Education Minister is blocking backdoor entries, the next question is:

    Hon Minister - Why are we still treating Category A schools like golden gates? Shouldn’t equity mean mak ...
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  • Kwaw Esiako 3 months ago

    Are the A-listed schools not better resourced and positioned to transform poor performing students? Are we not practising segregation?

  • The Soothsayer 3 months ago

    To my knowledge, a patient with a difficult sickness is always refered to advance hospitals for better treatments why not thoae students who are not able to learn well not being put in the A _ listed schools where they have ...
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  • Hmmm 3 months ago

    Going to category A school does not make you any better if you are not ready to learn and transform yourself.

  • Dungeon Master 3 months ago

    Your analogy would only make sense in the West where common sense works. In Ghana, those who are very sick are declared dead and sent to the mortuary.

  • The Soothsayer 3 months ago

    Hmmm, Afiika

  • Apo 3 months ago

    I agree on this one.

  • Pierro 3 months ago

    You categorized the schools yet same examinations and expectations from teachers in the D and E Schools. No fairness at all. Poor will continue to to be poorer.

  • Justice 3 months ago

    Mr Minister, it must rather interest you to know that the BECE is so compromised that the results do not reflect true performance of learners. Do you think all children from public schools low performers? They might end up ge ...
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  • KingsKing 3 months ago

    Hon. then listen and listen good. My daughter who had
    English 1
    Maths 1
    Science 1
    Social Std 3
    RME 1
    Computing 1
    Creative Arts 2
    Twi 3
    Career tech 2.

    And opted to read Home Econs with her first choice at Achimota ...
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  • Maame 3 months ago

    Isn't it what the minister is trying to address? Sometimes we blame everything on the politicians, some of who are trying to help. The average Ghanaian is corrupt and will do everything corruptly. Leave the minister, and a ...
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  • TELL YOUR DAUGHTER NOT TO BE TROUBLED!! 3 months ago

    Tell your daughter to take heart. A shining light no matter what cannot be dimmed. Some 30yrs ago, I was in her situation. Had the best of grades, but my own school rejected me for sixth form just because I didn't get a Grade ...
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  • Kwabena 3 months ago

    Well said and congratulations.

  • Peter 3 months ago

    I sympathise with you but next time state your facts and stop making statement like Dr.Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana. Ghana does not belong to anybody. This nation exist before Nkrumah was bone. The fact that he change the name f ...
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  • Karen 3 months ago

    Why did she choose her weakest area? I wonder if Achimota chose every student with Social Std 1 over her for Home Econs.

    I would classify her as either shortsighted, lazy, or incapable of competing at the SHS-level simply ...
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  • APK 3 months ago

    To whom it may concern;

    I'm writing to express my concern about the current system of placing high-performing students in well-endowed schools (Category A) while low-performing students are relegated to under-resourced sch ...
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  • Nii 3 months ago

    “What’s apparent in all this focus on grades is that there’s no real emphasis on learning—the true purpose of education.”

  • Nii 3 months ago

    From my experience, our current paradigm based on grades creates an environment in which students fear the possibility of failure rather than focusing on the possibility of learning. Students are afraid to speak up, ask quest ...
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  • Joe Boy 3 months ago

    If you claim that some schools are grade A schools, then placing a student with aggregate 35 is appropriate. Let the school transform him into a grade A student. Then we can say that school is doing well. You can't pack only ...
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  • Nana TRUMU TRUMU Addo 3 months ago

    AKUFFO ADDO IS THE PROBLEM. THE ONLY WORK HE DID IN 8 YEARS IS HOW TO STEAL

  • Nana TRUMU TRUMU Addo 3 months ago

    HOW MANY SCHOOLS DID AKUFFO ADDO BUILD IN 8 YEARS?

  • Yabi Yabi 3 months ago

    If the practice of placing JHS students who pass their "common entrance examination" for SHS/Secondary school placement continues to depend on scores then we have a very serious problem with our education system period. We ha ...
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  • Naya 3 months ago

    You really said all that i was thinking to say. Well done.

  • Peter 3 months ago

    You, the minister would you send your children to private senior high school where is opportunities at public school? Please, give us a break

  • Fire, 3 months ago

    This tells nothing but how incompetent Haruna Iddrisu is. He's not fit for that position. A superficial thinking person will read this and clap hands for this nonsense politics in Ghana. If there's corruption within a Ministr ...
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  • Kofi 3 months ago

    You need to address the non residents classfied as day schoolers

  • Technical knockout 3 months ago

    Ghanaians will now see their incompetence in broad daylight and realise how badly they wasted their mandate in voting this bunch of incompetent lot to power. Would Napo or Dr Yaw Adutwum sound this hollow? The previous govern ...
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  • Cuntiki 3 months ago

    Technical knockout is deaf and dumb.
    If we talk about educational infrastructure, is like you trying hard to compare oranges and apples. Npp government doesn’t come near ndc in educational infrastructure. You better revisi ...
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  • Tt 3 months ago

    Sit in your Village and be making that your gymifo statement. You are in the village, you dont travel so you can say that NDC is better THAN NPP when iys comes to Infrastructure. Villager.

  • CRUSADER 3 months ago

    TALK TO YOUR BOYS! NDC IS CAPABLE OF EVERYTHING!NOW IF A KOREAN IS AN AMBASSADOR, A NIJA IS ALSO! WHAT AGAIN?

  • Ozymandias 3 months ago

    But we remember that your propaganda machine made it clear that you will solve ALL problems within 90 days? What has gone wrong now?

  • Kwabena 3 months ago

    Please send a delegation to find out why the Headmaster of Tsito SHS in the Ho West District allowed the school bus to be used to transport church members from Kpedze to a conference in Tamale. The bus was involved in an acci ...
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  • Truth 3 months ago

    Person calling himself "Waec Official" on Facebook should be investigated for promising to change scores and placements. Thank you.

  • Ghana Ba Kofi 3 months ago

    Since the inception of the free shs, my st academic moral rights has gone missing and every know it.
    * No repeatition
    * No punishment
    * No strict exams
    * No dismissal
    * Failing of a student
    And all these were for p ...
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  • Ghana Ba Kofi 3 months ago

    Since the inception of the free shs, most academic moral rights have gone missing and everyone knows this.
    * No repeatition
    * No punishment
    * No strict exams
    * No dismissal
    * Failing of a student
    And all these were for ...
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  • Pete Dwr 3 months ago

    For once, I have reasons to disagree with my admired politicians, Honourable Haruna

    It is good he's fighting legalities, but his reasons for the action is not not.

    Why do you want to put the brilliant students in one s ...
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  • Asare 3 months ago

    Placing underperforming child in category A school would be suicidal since majority of those students are highly intelligent. The underperforming child might not be able to cope with the new reality. And the teachers in those ...
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