Public university admission crisis; the rich and privileged take over

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GHFUO, change ur thinking 10 years ago

WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY N TRANSPARENCY IN GOVT!
WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH NOW!
MAHAMA PAID TO APPEAR ON CNN!!! CNN DIDNT INVITE HIM.
WHY DID MAHAMA GIVE AGGUDEY A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON? FOR WHAT? FOR HIM TO SAVE FACE AN ...
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WE NEED ACCOUNTABILITY N TRANSPARENCY IN GOVT!
WE NEED CORRUPTION COURTS IN GH NOW!
MAHAMA PAID TO APPEAR ON CNN!!! CNN DIDNT INVITE HIM.
WHY DID MAHAMA GIVE AGGUDEY A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON? FOR WHAT? FOR HIM TO SAVE FACE AND NOT BE DISGRACED?
THIS FOOL WAS SPENDING MONEY THAT WASNT HIS AND WOMANIZING WITH YOUNG LEGON FEMALES. WHERE IS THE MORALITY HERE?
THESE GIRLS COULD HAVE BEEN YOUR SIS TERS, DAUGHTER OR NIECE...YOU KNOW...
ALL THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENENING IN GH, AND YOU EXPECT ME TO SUPPORT GH TO GO TO BRASIL? CMON NOW...
MAHAMA SAYS: LET THEM EAT CAKE....
...TARRIFS ARE GOING UP ALL ACROSS THE BOARD IN GH. YET, WE DONT SEE AN IOTA OF AN IMPROVEMENT IN PUBLIC SERVICES OR QUALITY INFRATSRUCTURE. YOU HAVNT SEEN ANYTHING YET.
ILLITERACY/LACK OF BASIC EDUCATION HAS CAUSED THE PPL TO VOTE OUT OF SHEER EMOTIONS AND ETHNIC JUDGEMENTS.
PUMPING MONEY INTO PUBLIC SERVICE ISNT THE WAY TO GO. ESP IN TODAY'S CASH STRAPPED, TECHNOLOGY INSPIRED WORLD. GOVT MUST STREAMLINE THE PUBLIC SECTOR.
WE HAVE DISTRICT, MUNICIPAL/CITY, REGIONAL AND FEDERAL GOVT . STREAMLINE THE GOVT N REMOVE THESE QUACK/QUASI, USELESS GOVT INSTITUTIONS WHICH EXIST BUT DONT DO ANYTHING TO RENDER EFFICIENT SERVICE OR COLLECT REVENUE.
1.CHECK PUBLIC SECTOR CORRUPTION. INSTITUTE CORRUPTION COURTS!
2.REDUCE PUBLIC SECTOR WAGES.
3.HIRE LESS PPL TO PROVIDE EFFICIENT SERVICE. WE NEED DISCIPLINE, CLEAR OVERSIGHT, CHECK N BALANCES N PATRIOTIC HARDWORKERS IN THE SYSTEM.
4. FACTORIES
GH REVENUE SOURCE: TAXES. LOANS, GRANTS FROM OUTSIDE FOR REVENUE GENERATING VENTURES IN GH. STREAMLINE INDUSTRIES, GOVT...CUT DOWN SPENDING,
WIDEN TAX BASE, EXPORT MORE.
NOT A BUNCH OF THIEVES WHO COME TO STEAL N COLLECT BRIBES! WHO ARE YOU MAKING A MOCKERY OF?...
IN MY BOOK, YOU EITHER DO IT RIGHT. OR YOU GET ELIMINATED.
TOO MANY GH PPL LACK SELF CONFIDENCE AND DONT BELIEVE IN WHO THEY ARE. THEN AGAIN, U CANT BLAME THEM. LOOK AT THEIR SURROUNDINGS..OPEN GUTTERS, MALARIA, FILTH, DIRT EVERYWHERE!
I AM 37 YRS OLD. WE HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH MALARIA SINCE THE DAY I WAS BORN. STILL HAVNT FOUND AN ATIDOTE. WHY?
NO BASIC PLANNING IN GH TO AID TAXATION, AND ADDRESS SYSTEM OR TO CHECK CRIMINAL ACITIVITY. UNLICENSED BUSINESSPPL SELLING FOOD NEXT TO FILTH, I MEAN ITS A SHAME...ITS A SHAME.
SINCE THE DAYS OF METHUSELAH, WE HAVE BEEN WASTING MILLIONS ON MALARIA, WHY?
WAT WILL IT TAKE TO DEVELOP MODERN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, CLOSED GUTTERS?
LOOK AT BRASIL? THEY HAVE CLAIMED THE MOST WCUPS IN HISTORY BCOS THEY INVESTED IN QUALITY SOCCER INFRSTRUCTURE, STADIUMS ETC.
GO TO ALL OUR GOVT STADIUMS N SEE GARGANTUAN INFRASTRACTURAL DEGRADATION. YOUR SCOREBOARD DOSENT EVEN WORK, BUT U WANT TO GO TO WORLDCUP?
LOOK AT GH. YOU WANT TO GO TO WCUP, BUT LOOK AT YOUR SOCCER INFRSATRUCTURE? IS IT FAIR TO THE OTHER NATIONS IN AFRICA WHO HAVE INVESTED IN
BETTER SOCCER INFRASTRUCTURE, STADIUMS, LEAGUES ETC. TO STAY HOME FOR GH TO QUALIFY AND GO TO BRASIL? HELL NO!
HE WHO CLIMBS A GOOD TREE DESERVES SUPPORT....NOT VICE VERSA. LOOK AT THE QUALITY OF PLAYERS AA HAS INVITED FOR THE WCUP QUALIFIER VS EGYPT?
REALLY?..EVEN OLELE PAID 5000 DOLLARS FOR SELECTION. DO BRASILIAN PLAYERS PAY BRIBES TO GET SELECTION? WAT IS OTOO, JORDAN AYEW, ADOMAH, FRIMPONG DOING HERE?
Now, if you were to open a textbook from years ago, you would have found that natural resources in abundance are a source of growth and wealth for
developing countries, or so it was supposed. Why not?
If you have oil, if you have diamonds, if you have gold and copper, can't these be used to help develop the country?
But if you turn to contemporary textbooks, the first chapter is liable to be about the resource curse, meaning that the revenues from foreign
investment in oil and gas and coal and copper get siphoned off in corruption. billions of dollars are siphoned off every year into THE private pockets of these so called DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
WHAT A SHAME! There is a lack of transparency. There is a lack of accountability.
if you look at Chile, Peru, Indonesia, Malaysia, these are
countries that have been very successful in using their rich resources TO DEVELOP THEIR NATION. WHY CANT GHANAIAN GOVTS LEARN FROM THEM?
So the question is, how can resources be used to benefit broad economic and social development and avoid the corruption and authoritarian rule?
The key issue is always going to be the local population, the local leadership, the local press, and NGOs, non-governmental authorities that try
to promote openness and transparency. In 2010-2011, Ghana started to export significant quantities of oil.
Is this going to be the best thing that ever happened to Ghana or the worst thing that ever happened to Ghana?
The phenomenon called "Dutch Disease" is also part of the resource curse. THIS means that the exchange rate for the currency of
resource-rich countries becomes overvalued, and this hurts the exports of other industries.
WHAT THIS NDC GOVT IS DOING IS THIS. THEY HAVE DEVALUED THE CURRENCY, SO FOREIGNERS CAN BUY MORE EXPORTING OIL FOR EXPORT, RESOURCES. WHILES THEY STEAL THE MONIES INTO THEIR PRIVATE, FOREIGN
BANK ACCOUNTS. REALLY? IM READY TO START KILLING SOME OF THESE MINISTERS, MPS ETC......
Ghana is NOW like Haiti!!! There was only one airport in Haiti and when the disaster strucked,aid donors HAD it so hard to send humanitarian reliefs because the only one international airport
was destroyed. just imaginING if Ghana is not the same as Haiti??!! Building one international airport in Kumasi has turnED into tribal politics!!#
President John Dramani Mahama has added a whopping GHc15.6 BILLION DOLLARS to Ghana’s total public debt stock since being sworn into office as caretaker and substantive president within the period from July 2012 to August 2013.
This implies that President John Mahama has contracted a total of GHc15.6 BILLION DOLLARS of debt for Ghanaians since becoming the President of Ghana.
WHAT DO WE HAVE TO SHOW FOR ALL THIS DEBT? LOOK AT GH? SMELLY, DUSTY...OPEN GUTTERS I MEAN WHY? HOW? WHO VOTED FOR NDC? GO N CLAIM YOUR SHARE....PLUS AN INCREASE IN WATER, HYDRO TARRIFS ACROSS THE BOARD?
WHEN RICH WESTERN NATIONS ARE PAYING DOWN THEIR DEBTS/NATIONAL DEFICITS. WAT IS GH DOING, U ASK? BORROWING MORE MONEY. WAA LOOK?
IF YOUR STANDARD OF LIVING IS THIS BAD. HOW BAD WILL THE STANDARD OF LIVING FOR YOUR CHILDEREN AND GRANDCHILDREN BE? THINK ABOUT THIS PPL?.....
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NPP OR NDC. ghana is under the most useless leadership of all time,nurses are unpaid for six months ,children are dying of heart failures and asiedu nketia is feasting in streatham london with ghanas money.i pity for those who voted ndc.
A CLASSIC CASE OF FRENCH QUEEN CATHERINE'S "LET THEM EAT CAKE"...WELL, GUESS WHAT TRIGGERED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION? THIS FOOLISH STATEMENT IS WHAT TRIGGERED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
GHPPL, RISE UP AND CLAIM YOUR SHARE!
Mr Paul Victor Obeng, has made a strong case for the need to ensure that increasing access to the Internet does not lead to the importation of alien cultures.
“While increasing access to the Internet would improve the socio-economic circumstances, its negative influences call for a concerted effort to counter the bad influence.
Increasing access should not lead us to the importation of attitudes that are incompatible with our social norms,” he said.
WAT IS PV'S PROBLEM? WESTERN NATIONS LIKE CANADA, AMERICA, BRITAIN, GERMANY ETC ALL HAVE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY READILY AVAILABLE FOR THEIR CITIZENS. HAS IT IMPACTED THEIR CULTURE NEGATIVELY?
EVEN BEFORE INTERNET, WE WERE SELLING/THROWING AWAY OUR CULTURE. WAT HAPPENS AT INDEPENDENCE MARCHES IN GH, 6 MARCH. DO WE EVEN POUR LIBATION ANYMORE?
WE PUT OUR KIDS IN THE BURNING SUN TO BLACKEN N FAINT. KIDS WE CANT EVEN GIVE FREE BASIC EDUCATION TO. WHILES, WE WALLOW IN THE ABJECTIVITY OF THE BIBLE N KORAN..
GAMBIA, CONGRATULATION FOR TAKING A BOLD STEP ON YOUR DECISION TO LEAVE THE COMMONWEALTH. I SALUTE YOU! GH GOVT, DO YOU HAVE THE BALLS TO DO SO?
SHAME ON OUR USELESS, TOOTHLESS SO CALLED LEADERS, ELDERS, MINISTERS, PRESIDENTS. SHAME ON YOU AND TO YOU ALL WHO HAVE EMBARKED ON STEALING.
I WISH EARLY DEATH AND A LIFE RIDDLED WITH PAINFUL DISEASES ON ALL OF YOU. YOU KNOW WHO ARE....
STUPID GOVT LEADERS. BCOS OF YOUR STUPID CORRUPT HABITS, AFRICANS ARE HAVING TO TRAVEL ILLEGALLY TO RACIST NATIONS. MANY HAVING TO DIE OR DROWN IN THE SEA. IS THIS RIGHT?
WHY ARE YOU SOO FUCKING WICKED, HUH? WHY?....
THIS IS BROWN BROWN BROTHERS, AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE!
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christian Wolle 10 years ago

So where are going when the brilliant are no more admitted! that you must buy school for your ward.
The minister need find out three thing.
- The capacity of each tertiary institutions
- Present out pour of admissible
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So where are going when the brilliant are no more admitted! that you must buy school for your ward.
The minister need find out three thing.
- The capacity of each tertiary institutions
- Present out pour of admissible
-What the govern can offer admission and make provision for other unfaortunate student to be taken care inother neighbourhood with supports financially.
Our Budget can support that if the government will honest enough.
These wards are ready to go to school and parents with their little resources are ready to face the expenses , In case you dinied thes children the opportunity to school now.
We will have an environmental issue in the nearest future like other country are facing now.
Our govern nee to step down this idea buying school for prividge family and open the chance for all for us have labor force well fortified and replacement when older ones will retiring
The Ministry and the Decision maker will do Ghana good by getting it right now else we will have problem when these unqualified wards finishes school and will be poured into the job market or being given a chance to serve in the name of Ghana else where.
www.yao&yahoo.com 10 years ago

Ghana is getting to an end,now is only the rich shall survive in educational rank oh God help we the poor.

Ghana is getting to an end,now is only the rich shall survive in educational rank oh God help we the poor.
Yaw Poku,USA 10 years ago

This all the fault of JJ Rawlings education system and the current visionless idea of both Atta Mess and John Mahama the akonfemhene

This all the fault of JJ Rawlings education system and the current visionless idea of both Atta Mess and John Mahama the akonfemhene
Kay 10 years ago

If everybody is getting 11 ones at JHS and 8A's at SHS,how would the university authorities know who merit to be at the university?Definitely JJ is the cause,Ghana's education is in a mess.O & A Levels is the best system.

If everybody is getting 11 ones at JHS and 8A's at SHS,how would the university authorities know who merit to be at the university?Definitely JJ is the cause,Ghana's education is in a mess.O & A Levels is the best system.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 10 years ago

They should scrap the SHS final exams conducted by the corrupt WAEC and replace it with the London GCE or SAT. We shall then shall know how many who may get the 8A's.

They should scrap the SHS final exams conducted by the corrupt WAEC and replace it with the London GCE or SAT. We shall then shall know how many who may get the 8A's.
4 Year Old 10 years ago

Let's be realistic! The cost of good education is rising by the minute and everywhere. It's a global phenomenon. The rich generally are at an advantage when it comes to education and they will always be. Unless the children o ...
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Let's be realistic! The cost of good education is rising by the minute and everywhere. It's a global phenomenon. The rich generally are at an advantage when it comes to education and they will always be. Unless the children of rich refuse to make use of the resources at their disposal, the children of the poor will encounter such problems.

Scholarships for academic excellence can bring about some level of balance but even then, who can deny a scholarship to an excellent student of the rich?

It costs a lot to maintain a good school. Books and academic resources are expensive. It is expensive to get good teachers hence the rich will be at an advantage.
VICKY LEE BENTON 10 years ago

IT HAPPENED TO MY OWN CHILD. THEY SELL THE ADMISSION SO OPENLY WITHOUT SHAME. THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD THE BRIBES GET ADMITTED REGARDLESS OF YOUR GRADES.
MY DAUGHTER WAS LEFT OUT BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T AFFORD TO GIVE THE ADMINISTR ...
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IT HAPPENED TO MY OWN CHILD. THEY SELL THE ADMISSION SO OPENLY WITHOUT SHAME. THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD THE BRIBES GET ADMITTED REGARDLESS OF YOUR GRADES.
MY DAUGHTER WAS LEFT OUT BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T AFFORD TO GIVE THE ADMINISTRATOR THE MONEY SHE ASKED FOR. EVEN THOUGH SHE QUALIFIED AND THEY SEND HER A LETTER TO CONGRATULATED HER AND TOLD HER SHE WOULD BE HEARING FROM THEM, AND NEVER DID.
SHE WENT TO KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE& TECHNOLOGY THUS WHEN THEY GAVE HER THE NEWS TO PAY BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE TO BE ADMITTED.
SO WHAT KIND OF A FUTURE ARE WE CREATING IN THE COUNTRY AS WE SIT AND WATCH THE GOOD STUDENTS BE LEFT BEHIND WHILE THE DUMB ONES GET ADMITTED BECAUSE THEY CAN BUY THEIR WAY INTO THE UNIVERSITY'S ?
YOU DECIDE.
PAT 10 years ago

JJ RAWLINGS WAS 1000% BETTER THAN KUFFUOR, ATTAMILLS AND JOHN MAHAMA ALL PUT TOGETHER....THESE SO CALLED KNOWLEDGEABLE CIVILIAN RULERS DID NOTHING BUT OPEN THE FLOODGATES FOR CORRUPTION, CREATING, LOOTING AND SHARING WHILST O ...
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JJ RAWLINGS WAS 1000% BETTER THAN KUFFUOR, ATTAMILLS AND JOHN MAHAMA ALL PUT TOGETHER....THESE SO CALLED KNOWLEDGEABLE CIVILIAN RULERS DID NOTHING BUT OPEN THE FLOODGATES FOR CORRUPTION, CREATING, LOOTING AND SHARING WHILST OUR SCHOOLS AND LIVELIHOODS SUFFER......NOW THE POOR MASSES ARE SO PITIFUL DUE TO THE GREED OF THESE LEADERS.....WE ARE PRAYING TO GOD TO GRANT US GOOD LEADERS WHO WONT BE SELFISH, CORRUPT AND NATION WRECKERS.
JOHN LEWIS BLAY 10 years ago

Its rather amazing the way these politicians are toying with education and messing up our future leaders. No doubt we are still importing everything even simply torch lights.

Where are the Education ministers who promise ...
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Its rather amazing the way these politicians are toying with education and messing up our future leaders. No doubt we are still importing everything even simply torch lights.

Where are the Education ministers who promised that they have put everything in place so there will not be any problem on 2013/2014 university admission. they have done apparently nothing in preparation for this double streams they created.

UG is maintaining the same admission figure last year and KNUST only a few percentage, what is this?, nothing was put in place in far advance.

What plans has the Government for well qualified but no admission candidates. They should come out
Whatever 10 years ago

Government must put in place policies to even field. There are so many talents which are being left to rot because the rich are having field day. Where is our sense of priority?

Government must put in place policies to even field. There are so many talents which are being left to rot because the rich are having field day. Where is our sense of priority?
Saint James 10 years ago

You recently called for an immediate end to the so-called PROTOCOL system.Why is the situation still the same?

You recently called for an immediate end to the so-called PROTOCOL system.Why is the situation still the same?
GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

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JOE 10 years ago

PLEASE BE RESPONSIBLE AND STOP THE FALSE PEDDLING.
AFTER UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS OF REGULAR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT PAY ANY SCHOOL FEES, SOME OF THOSE WHO FAIL TO MAKE THE CUT OFF POINTS OF THE UNIVERSITIES, BUT INSIST ON PAYING ...
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PLEASE BE RESPONSIBLE AND STOP THE FALSE PEDDLING.
AFTER UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS OF REGULAR STUDENTS WHO DO NOT PAY ANY SCHOOL FEES, SOME OF THOSE WHO FAIL TO MAKE THE CUT OFF POINTS OF THE UNIVERSITIES, BUT INSIST ON PAYING FEES ARE GIVING THE CHANCE TO PAY THOSE FEES AND ENTER AS PART-TIME FEE PAYING STUDENTS. AT LEAST VERIFY YOUR NEWS BEFORE CAUSING PANIC WITH FALSEHOODS!!!
betty 10 years ago

If scrupulous people demands money before you get admission report the person to the authorities. And the staff be reprimanded.

If scrupulous people demands money before you get admission report the person to the authorities. And the staff be reprimanded.
SECRETLESS GHANA 10 years ago

Why are we pretending to be seeing such phenomenon to be news in Ghana? Ghanaians and their pretenses! Since after military handover of government in this country, protocol quotas and advantage for the rich and politicians be ...
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Why are we pretending to be seeing such phenomenon to be news in Ghana? Ghanaians and their pretenses! Since after military handover of government in this country, protocol quotas and advantage for the rich and politicians became the order of the day. It is only little brains that are not aware of this in Ghana. DO NOT WASTE MY EARS!

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