Video of Prof Kaufmann resurfaces after ex-minister's 'useless degree' remark sparks debate

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  • Dr ...Mumbi Seraki 2 weeks ago

    Hello youth of Ghana. You can take your own .life or someone's .life with medicine. For instance 15 tramadol at once.....or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • KOFI 2 weeks ago

    What she said is the plain truth. You will get Ghanaian students on a Masters course in the UK who cannot critically evaluate.

    These are students who had a first class in their first degree.

  • Nene Sackitey 2 weeks ago

    Yes she is very much on point about what she says but my question is which education system got her to where she is now and was it not her own choice to be more practical oriented in her academics That’s sets her apart?

  • Yaw Manu 2 weeks ago

    My lecturers said my class was not serious. We were busy focusing on hands on knowledge. Most of us didn't apply for jobs not because we had connections but rather practical skills.

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  • fuuny 2 weeks ago

    if an industry person wants to become a lecturer, they will frustrate the person by demanding PHD and other things that dont add much value

  • Peter 2 weeks ago

    There is value for Ph.D. Otherwise many universities would have stopped offering them.. Advanced academic degrees are important. Not every course in the University is designed to have a directing mapping to a particular job. ...
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  • Yaw Manu 2 weeks ago

    You spit the facts.

  • Kwam 2 weeks ago

    It appears as a Nation we know our problems or challenges, but we lack the capacity to solve them.
    When we get the opportunity to provide solutions, corruption and nepotism also erode our sense of responsibility.

  • Peter 2 weeks ago

    Pretty right.

  • Mame Ama 2 weeks ago

    YOU HAVE SAID IT ALL...OUR PROBLEMS AND THE SOLUTION ARE OBVIOUS...BUT POLITICS AND CORRUPTION ARE HINDERING US FROM SOLVING THEM....IN THE END THE PEOPLE SUFFER

  • K K BOATENG, TORONTO 2 weeks ago

    GHANA HAS NO LEADERS AT ALL LEVELS OF SOCIETY. PERIOD !!!!

  • Yabi Yabi 2 weeks ago

    A national government agenda that states clearly an urgent need for people in agriculture to boost food production, would and should, prioritize the recruitment, education, post-education practical training and certifications ...
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  • Otto Fister 2 weeks ago

    we should have utlised kantanka from day ne.

    Now the old boy is gone.

  • Apoo 2 weeks ago

    Massa, tumuda make we think!

  • Kweku Tsin 2 weeks ago

    Having someone manufacture something in your name in china, then assembling it in Ghana is not an achievement..

  • Oklemekuku¹ 2 weeks ago

    Thanks for posting this.

  • Fifi Afriyie 2 weeks ago

    Dr. Adutwum is right because we see the evidence in YouTube and Facebook. We see Chinese,Korean,Japanese and children from other developing countries in Primary and Secondary schools assembling mobile devices,making dresses, ...
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  • Yaw Manu 2 weeks ago

    Chinese,Korean,Japanese and children from other developing countries who mostly learn in their native languages or ok languages closer to their native language also Chew, Pour, Pass and Forget but they are practically oriente ...
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  • Moajoah 2 weeks ago

    Prof. Kaufmann probably does not also fit to teach at the University. If not she herself should known the process for equipment to be used at the hospital. If an equipment is produce, there are standard processes it must go t ...
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  • Kwame Amoah 2 weeks ago

    You are not a serious person. Why can't we ensure that the international standards are met?

  • Gameli Noviwo 2 weeks ago

    Prof. Kaufman's intellectual and benevolent argument is totally different from vindictive Adutwum's. Prof. Kaufman talked about the method of teaching in our schools and its detrimental consequences on society, but not the so ...
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  • There are indeed useless courses 2 weeks ago

    They don’t serve much or any of our social basic needs

  • Oldman 2 weeks ago

    I don’t think THAT health professionals answer should be the yardstick. They never even asked if those gadgets have been tested and approved by Standard Board. Aren’t there any equipment, reagents or anything produced in ...
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  • Danidan 2 weeks ago

    Sometimes i wonder how the leaders we chose to lead us thinks. You have been an education minister and have all the privileges and power to change what you think is not right about the education system in Ghana.
    You didn't d ...
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  • Kwaseato 2 weeks ago

    You didn't hear and never heard of changes Dr. Adutwum was enacting in the Ghana education system that made Germany even show interest in the technical schools? You NDC keaseato will pretend he did nothing. How many stem sch ...
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  • Steve 2 weeks ago

    Hmm

  • Steve Kaye London 2 weeks ago

    When Dr. Adutwum talked about it last couple of weeks, people did not understand him and made all kinds of noise. This is one of the reasons why the NPP should have been voted back to power to continue with their educational ...
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  • Kwame Amoah 2 weeks ago

    The hawks came after him because our thoughts processes have been too political

  • Opanyinbon 2 weeks ago

    Dr. Adutwum was right! Some of the courses offering in our universities are archaic and it won't help in our national development. You may not agree with him, but I insist he was right when you see some outmoded courses offer ...
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  • Francis 2 weeks ago

    You are right. This is the fundamental problem we have not just in Ghana.

  • KK 2 weeks ago

    Stop bothering us with all this noise. If you produce a medical device in Ghana that is passed by Ghana Standards Authority and the FDA why not it will be patronized. It's the place of the clinicians you spoke to on the field ...
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  • Nana Aba 2 weeks ago

    What a shame. I agree, most of our degrees are useless. Rote learning is what we are good at. The educational system needs to overhaul otherwise forget it our degree are useless. .

  • Kojos 2 weeks ago

    Who is useless. Ghana is sick with primitive minded people. Local you will comtinue begging. The world will not wait for you. That is why you are building market and buying girls pad.

  • Mohammed Tolon 2 weeks ago

    Dr. Adutuwum was and still right but said it at the wrong time and place. If he had brought his observation up during his days as a minister of education and at an educational review workplace many would have looked into it ...
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  • Wonua 2 weeks ago

    The professor is right. I didn’t do well during my first and second years in one of the sciences offered at KNUST because unlike my colleagues I was reading outside my notes to answer questions . As soon as I changed and st ...
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  • Mouth mouth 2 weeks ago

    Adutwum is right and this is the right time
    Just look at the hawks coming to devour him
    At least he showed his conviction by starting the STEM schools

  • 100% correct 2 weeks ago

    Every thing the Prof said is absolutely factual.

  • Animals Kingdom 2 weeks ago

    I don’t understand why people are not understanding this former MP’s remarks. What have our universities done for us. Doctors prescribed wrong medication, Judges taken bribes, how many lawyers do we have in Ghana now, bec ...
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  • RN 2 weeks ago

    The women is right

  • RN 2 weeks ago

    I mean the woman. Typo mistake

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  • Od 2 weeks ago

    Big up prof, you're too much

  • Capt Adabuga 2 weeks ago

    So you see that Dr. Osei Adutwum made sense after all. But the dumbass NDC fanatics are insulting him. If Ghana was a serious country he Osei Adutwum would have been retained by the NDC to continue with FSHS

  • Obarima 2 weeks ago

    We need engineers in Ghana.
    Enough of the doctors and lawyers.
    Iran is run by engineers

  • Twe 2 weeks ago

    Dr Adu Twum is 100% right , I know one chief engineer who graduated from UST and was working for a bus transport company , his certificates was from wall to wall ,you can only see him at his office through his secretary, yet ...
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  • KELEWELE 2 weeks ago

    Isn't Elsie Kaufmann the "leader" of the useless NSMQ the MOTHER of all ROTE learning?
    APUUU...
    talk is cheap.

  • Attachment 2 weeks ago

    In advanced countries, the schools have direct affiliation with the industry. Those places (industry) are where practical or hands on training is acquired. Some companies inputs are mostly sought in caving the curriculum. The ...
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  • Ad 2 weeks ago

    Mama, you have said it all.

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  • GILBERT ABILINSA 2 weeks ago

    That's the gospel truth and a correct picture of the Ghana education system.
    But why so long to recognise the Truth'
    Is it because we are british rooted?
    We have trodded back and forth from:
    elementary to middle
    from el ...
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  • HAPPY DAYS 2 weeks ago

    Dr Adutwum promoted STEM and TVET education which must be continued as a matter of national priority,Professor Kauffman is saying the same thing,unfortunately President Mahama and his Minister of Education are interested in e ...
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  • Aaron 2 weeks ago

    As soon as the Technical Universities also began in the trail of the traditional universities both in appointment of lecturers and curriculum direction , I signaled the end of purposeful efucation in Ghana. A country that glo ...
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  • OZYMANDIAS 2 weeks ago

    Dr Adutwum is right after all. Negative minds should stop demonising him.

  • OZYMANDIAS 2 weeks ago

    Imagine someone graduating with a BA in Greek and Ancient civilisation from UG or UCC. Totally useless degree in modern times.

  • Yes. 2 weeks ago

    Always talking about Science and Technology, but corrupt practices cannot help students. How many science students go abroad on government sponsorship to study science and engineering and come back? We do not have enough scie ...
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