Education Ministry clarifies language of instruction policy for basic schools

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  • GOLDEN 1 day ago

    THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN GHANA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY GOOD,WITH IMPORTANT
    SUBJECTS LIKE MATHEMATICS,SCIENCE,IE CHEMISTRY,BIOLOGY,PHYSICS,OUR LOCAL LANGUAGES AS WELL AS ENGLISH,BEING THE COMPULSERY SUBJECTS,RELIGION AND HISTORY ...
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  • FRANKIE 1 day ago

    What does the minister mean by "LOCAL LANGUAGE"? How will Arabic contribute to national development? There are numerous local languages and I wonder which one teachers will/can use in teaching in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi etc. ...
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  • Great God. 1 day ago

    If you don't have money to travel why do you borrow, and also you have to know that this Nigerians are dangerous why do you believe them and follow them to their 419 . they are dangerous to the world.serve the jailed term for ...
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  • Ayim 1 day ago

    Good job the ministry of education for this initiative. It’s in the right direction. The foundation of education is important.

  • AKABENEZER 1 day ago

    Ghanaians learn their local laguages at home from their families. Focus on ABC and English language. No Ghanaian want to be forced to learn a different tribal language.

  • Test2 1 day ago

    HOW CAN A COMMON MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT WHO HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO DEVELOP HIS OWN DUSTY MUD HOUSES COWS WITH HUMANS DRINKING FROM THE SAME POLLUTED RIVERS SUDDENLY BECOMES EXPERTISE IN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM TELLING US WHAT LANGUA ...
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  • AKABENEZER 1 day ago

    The irony of your stupidity is you wrote this nonsense in English. If you could, and had written this in your local dialet most of us would have skipped over it without understanding everything you wrote.

  • Osei 1 day ago

    Ow say that again. Nkwaseasem saaa why

  • Pelicles 1 day ago

    Keep the teaching of Arabic from our schools. Commonsense says that respect is earned and if one does not respect you, there is no need respect that person. Arabs are mostly mean-spirited humans who sees Africans as sub-human ...
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  • J-Tec 1 day ago

    A very useless policy. Instead of introducing skills development and entrepreneurship you are talking of languages.
    Give the kids toy engines, cooking utensils, balls,toy computers, building, fabrication and carpentry tools, ...
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  • Kweku 1 day ago

    What is the purpose of teaching Arabic in Ghana when we are surrounded by French speaking countries?

  • Prudhomme - Ghanaians are unintelligent 1 day ago

    How are local languages going to strengthen critical thinking, as claimed by the ministry?

  • Korbla 1 day ago

    It is based on international research. Besides that our local languages seem to be vanishing

  • Gyimii 1 day ago

    What international research

  • Chiga 1 day ago

    for a minister whose constituents are 90% from deprived areas i wondering how optional classes will work in his area and how many french, arabic and chinese teachers they have trained to offer these courses.

  • Shalom 1 day ago

    So why Arabic and Chinese inclusion????
    We expect that as we look forward into the future with the hope having a United Africa, one or two African languages should rather be considered such as Swahili or Hausa. How relevant ...
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  • Ericus 1 day ago

    I think they chose these two because of the business opportunities,economic ties between Ghana and the Arab countries and china. So we can't say the ministry is wrong for adding the arabic and Chinese. There are a lot of job ...
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  • Osei 1 day ago

    Gyimifo, focus on AI and STEM not some languages. All of you are ministers, gyimii saa why

  • Fireman 1 day ago

    This man needs to step aside. He is not the right man with the right mindset for the job, seriously

  • Rash 1 day ago

    Go and tell ur father that

  • Great God. 1 day ago

    Minister I do not agree with you by teaching Chinese language in our country Ghana and also Arabic, do they the Arabic people teaches Ghana language in their country.why do we fools ourselves to the foreign country's,we shoul ...
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  • Okatakyie 1 day ago

    Backward!

  • Coach 1 day ago

    Good policy begins with good evidence—but succeeds through good implementation. Have we fully addressed teacher capacity, pedagogy and lessons from NALAP for Ghanaian languages before broadening our language agenda?

  • Kwaku 1 day ago

    What is 'a familiar' language? This is the elephant in the room? Similar to what happens in govt offices, some teachers in govt schools teach in the main ethnic language of their choice to children who are totally ignorant of ...
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  • Kofi 1 day ago

    What local language? A lot of families are posted to areas where the local language is different from their own (health workers, teachers, bank employees and so on). So how would their children be helped to learn on a local l ...
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  • FK 23 hours ago

    The fact something is internationally accepted does it make it right for you, where you able to test and prove your decision!! Or it was just based on “internationally accepted “?

  • Sexy Sexy 15 hours ago

    This policy, if implemented, will make teaching difficult. The language a teacher speaks may differ from what the students understand. For example, I am a teacher of Ga descent from Accra, and the only local language I unders ...
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