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• Saint Ghfuo: CHANGE UR MENTALITY! 10 years ago

  they are all thieves with no concept of thinking or analytical thinking. those who support such people in such a political party are inward looking and bereft of common sense. they just look for the ir self interest and no th ...
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  they are all thieves with no concept of thinking or analytical thinking. those who support such people in such a political party are inward looking and bereft of common sense. they just look for the ir self interest and no that of the collective/the nation. if the nation ghana is not successful. dnt think you can acquire wealth and be peaceful in ghana. take that money elsewhere...

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• Naaba kugri 10 years ago

  MUNNAFIKI yankah

  MUNNAFIKI yankah

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• Pumpuni 10 years ago

  "…Ghana Academic of Arts and Sciences…"?
  "…is not as expected, leading to low productivity, poor national planning, leading to high graduate employment."?
  "…reducing the gab between research…"?

  "…Ghana Academic of Arts and Sciences…"?
  "…is not as expected, leading to low productivity, poor national planning, leading to high graduate employment."?
  "…reducing the gab between research…"?

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• Tekonline.org 10 years ago

  Dear Prof, you might have had a very good point 15 years ago. But today we live in an age where it is rather SOFTWARE companies manufacturing cars (eg. Google, Apple, Tesla).
  
  Through 3-D printing, software, rather than hum ...
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  Dear Prof, you might have had a very good point 15 years ago. But today we live in an age where it is rather SOFTWARE companies manufacturing cars (eg. Google, Apple, Tesla).
  
  Through 3-D printing, software, rather than human hands and chisels, are all that is required to fabricate ANYTHING these days.
  
  And again, rather than using surgical knives and blades, CYBER-knives are gradually becoming the tools of choice for certain delicate surgeries.
  
  All this means the field of engineering is becoming increasingly knowledge-intensive and software-driven, requiring a heavy those of theoretical principles.
  
  The conversion of polytechnics to technical universities is indeed a step in the right direction.

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• Michael 10 years ago

  I would have asked him if his university CUC is just producing 'theoretical skills' as he alleges will be the bane of technical universities.

  I would have asked him if his university CUC is just producing 'theoretical skills' as he alleges will be the bane of technical universities.

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• dzata 10 years ago

  The more technical universities the better, and if government sponsored, still ever the better than high-fees-charging private universities. Ask Prof. Yankah how he got his 1st degree and it will be Kwame Nkrumah's free educa ...
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  The more technical universities the better, and if government sponsored, still ever the better than high-fees-charging private universities. Ask Prof. Yankah how he got his 1st degree and it will be Kwame Nkrumah's free education university, probably Legon.
  
  One is not saying private universities are bad, but they are not the answer, since few Ghanaians can afford them and they are not that technical-oriented since, they do not have the funds for real technological training with fully stocked equipment and instrument laboratries and workshops.
  
  Ghana needs more technical universities that teach both theoretical and practical knowledge and encourage research in applying both to specific local Ghanaian conditions. That is what has been lacking in education across the country so that educated people end up with colonized minds always looking outside Ghana and Africa when they should fine-tuning all from outside for Ghana.

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• Tekonline.org 10 years ago

  "...requiring a heavy DOSE of theoretical principles."

  "...requiring a heavy DOSE of theoretical principles."

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• Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 10 years ago

  Read my post below.polys serve their purpose. So do 4yr universities. Polys should be routes like community colleges.

  Read my post below.polys serve their purpose. So do 4yr universities. Polys should be routes like community colleges.

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• Scholar 10 years ago

  The government is only toying with our development! How could a deputy of education come out and announce such an important national agenda with little to no evidence of pre-planning? The government made it sound as if univer ...
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  The government is only toying with our development! How could a deputy of education come out and announce such an important national agenda with little to no evidence of pre-planning? The government made it sound as if universities are built on ant dunes which are aplenty in the countryside!
  Presently, the few public universities lack even common chalk - did you think only school teachers in Kukurantumi were at the receiving end of Mrs Amissah-Arthur's misplaced judgement? None of the ten or so polytechnics in the country has well equipped labs and/or workshops of any sort. Government has not made any efforts to provide these facilities for any of the polytechnics. So coming out of nowhere to announce the upgrading of these polytechnics to universities is an indication of the government's lack of vision for solving the country's problems.
  It is in fact shameful that we have an association of unemployed graduates in the country. The government should come out and tell us what is being done to make sure that our graduates are being employed to justify the resources expended on their training, rather than try to grow the graduate population. If it is a matter of just increasing the literacy rate in the country, then it would be adequate just to put plans in place to ensure that every child born after 2010 gets secondary education at the minimum! The first thing that would achieve would be that electorates would no more be thumb-printing ballot papers; rather, candidates' names would be listed on ballot papers and voters would have to tick their choice! That would stop the wrong people and bad governments from being imposed on the country! So that no wife of a vice president would ever come out and arrogantly chide any school principal for appealing to government to make available basic resources for putting the future population through education!

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• The mask 10 years ago

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• GBEWAA 10 years ago

  IT'S STRANGE THAT IN 21ST CENTURY GHANA, SCHOOLS STILL USE BLACK BOARDS AND WHITE CHALKS INSTEAD OF DRY MARKER PENS AND DRY MARKER BOARDS.
  
  NO WONDER GHANA IS ALWAYS BACKWARDS!
  
  GHANA "LEADERS" SHOULD VISIT EVEN CARIBBE ...
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  IT'S STRANGE THAT IN 21ST CENTURY GHANA, SCHOOLS STILL USE BLACK BOARDS AND WHITE CHALKS INSTEAD OF DRY MARKER PENS AND DRY MARKER BOARDS.
  
  NO WONDER GHANA IS ALWAYS BACKWARDS!
  
  GHANA "LEADERS" SHOULD VISIT EVEN CARIBBEAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND SEE IF THEY STILL USE BLACK BOARDS AND WHITE CHALKS.
  
  MEANWHILE, GHANA IS MORE THAN TEN TIMES RICHER IN NATURAL RESOURCES THAN ALL CARRIBEAN COUNTRIES COMBINED.
  
  WHAT A COUNTRY CRIMINAL LEADERS!!!

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• puumaaya 10 years ago

  i completed polytechnic in 2004, but now what they are teaching in the polytechnic can't be apply in the job market. the current crop of lecturest are killing the program.

  i completed polytechnic in 2004, but now what they are teaching in the polytechnic can't be apply in the job market. the current crop of lecturest are killing the program.

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• Earl jones 10 years ago

  We have technical schools so polytechnics can be and should be converted to technical universities of excellence.
  
  The only reason the professor does not want that is the competition that will be created.
  
  In advanced co ...
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  We have technical schools so polytechnics can be and should be converted to technical universities of excellence.
  
  The only reason the professor does not want that is the competition that will be created.
  
  In advanced countries like the UK, they have done away with polytechnics.

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• Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 10 years ago

  Don't Convert POLY to University
  Instead of building more poly, teacher training and university in the various regions. They are busy pouring cologne on dead animals carcass. By converting poly into technical universities, ...
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  Don't Convert POLY to University
  Instead of building more poly, teacher training and university in the various regions. They are busy pouring cologne on dead animals carcass. By converting poly into technical universities, universities into ashawo institutes and teacher training into ndc propanda colleges. Then they will inflate the costs involved in doing the switch. Price of a mere paper clip sef will be inflated! Tweaaaaa ghana ain't going nowhere under these Rawlings babies with sharp teeth! Devoid of common sense. Parliament, The Opposition must step and and stop this foolishness ASAP. Okujeto another stinky bastard, bikini retard!
  That's all these ndc people know. They don't have any new, innovative ideas up their sleeve. They will create the need for such bogus technical universities. Trump up the budgetary finances and costs involved in setting up these technical universities. Then, you do the math..Chobology!
  Do you know why we have community colleges/ polys and universities? Each serves a purpose in society you know. Use the Internet and do your research. Go.unto the website of any community college in North America and look at the programs they offer. The first is geared towards hands on learning like mechanic, hairdressing, automobile mechanic, furniture making, tailoring, lab/computer technician, air conditioning repair, hvac, radio/tv producer, chef, police foundations, nursing, etc. After 2yrs,.grads can use their credits unto university, get a job or start their own business. Look at the financial impacts on society? University education is more theory and research based. This is the system adopted in many western nations. So if you close.down all polys and turn them into university. You have automatically wiped out the chance for any learning of professional hands on training, job creation in the interim and the future. U want to train the Ghanaian populace to be technocrats, bureaucrats and theory/research grads.forever? U think you know better than educators in North America who have poly/community colleges and also universities? If it was in the best interest of their children and nation to close down all poly/community colleges and turn them into places of higher education like a university. Don't you think they would have done that long ago? If you want to more polys, universities just build more of them in the communities,.regions that don't have them. Soon, these ndc fools will.turn stadiums into airports, churches into markets, kantamanto into hospital and have the nerve to justify their actions.

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• PRINZY@BONN-Germany 10 years ago

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• dd 10 years ago

  this is nonsense

  this is nonsense

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• JOE DEY 10 years ago

  The driving force for all these include salary differentials and the way Poly graduates are regarded and treated. It is the whole country that must rethink, not the Gov't.
  Initially right after independence, Scientists and ...
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  The driving force for all these include salary differentials and the way Poly graduates are regarded and treated. It is the whole country that must rethink, not the Gov't.
  Initially right after independence, Scientists and Engineers were highly paid and this was rightly so the attract the best brains to run and drive our industries....GIHOC Industries, etc. Then later, the Sccountants, Administrators, managers, etc, become those who were highly paid....That's the beginining of where we are now. Why? Any sciebtist and Engineering can do Business and Management Course, but the opposite is NOT the case. I mean Administrators cant turn Engineers and Scientists, but Scientist and Engineers can turn into Managers and Administrators. So Engineers moveed to become managers to earn more and do less than they would do in Engineering. I call this ''INTERNAL BRAIN DRAIN''. Or SQUARE PECGS IN ROUND HOLES.
  Now in Ghana, we have only ONE Univeristy of Science and Technology, and even that, there are more ARTS, MANAGEMENT AND LAW students than Science and Engineering. So in the employment Sector the Top is Heavy.
  Why would one leard harder to become an Engineer or Scientist and after that work harder and take less, and moreover to be controlled by those he/she thinks was better than when in school..... Also the administrators refuse to provide the Engineers and Scientists the tools to do their jobs, but have to beg and even go on strike.
  Despite the many Management degress the country is tsill MISMANAGED.
  What is the state of polytechniques now? Is it really Technical? Or still Arta and management courses being run? Do they have the Inputs for Technical Training? Are there Industries to absorb them?
  Too much talk won't solve the problems we are in now. Listening to Technocrats and doing the right thing is the way forward.

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• Sammy 10 years ago

  Joe,
  
  I think you made demonstrably succinct points, however, I suspect you allowed you emotion to override your judgment. Without a doubt, the country has been and will continue to be misguided and misdirected unless some ...
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  Joe,
  
  I think you made demonstrably succinct points, however, I suspect you allowed you emotion to override your judgment. Without a doubt, the country has been and will continue to be misguided and misdirected unless some delusionary miracle happened. Ghana for that matter, Africans leaves their God created talent in hands of unknown person to guide, which is sharp contract to Western culture, what a rot! When Ghana became independent, the first president quickly change the country currency from pound to cedi. The most idiosyncratic and far-reaching move made at the stroke of time. I honestly believe we could have co-existed with the colonial master without dwelling in diminutive politically dangerous cabal or gambols. The results was weak and even weaker currency we have now.
  
  Technical educations are supposed to set the center stage and plays a pivotal role as the engine of growth, or a prototype for Ghana development. However, the attempts has demonstrably failed due to country misdirected prioritization of national agenda. As result, plutocracy set the stage for the new Ghana, now we are wallowing in “brain drained”. The fact is that the mere mention of the day of institution as “technical” does not necessary change the current quandary and trajectory the country is heading.
  
  
  I strongly agreed with you that the entire private sectors, universities, and stakeholders, and governmental agencies ought to start rethinking and re-engineering of the way we undermine and manipulate posterity’s lives. Negative perception is like a cancer that eviscerates and damage fabric to the core. Just like any Polytechnic’s, every undergraduate degree should all be give the same general reception. The perception in Ghana is that peoples who goes to Polytechnic’s are semi-educated individual who could not be admitted to the universities probably due to their grades. Accepting this theoretical pedagogy and phenomenological theory is to say that two weeks testing can clearly and legitimately defined someone academic prowess. I can go on and on but as country we have failed in many ways. So when I read that one junkyard Professor Diagnoses Ghana problems and his advice is to leave the Polytechnic as it’s now is sickening.
  
  
  I am sorry but some contributes are simply political demagogue, hence any opportune chances they have had, quickly ignite political demagoguing all-day-long. If any viable opportunity scholars has is to wear political lexicon then the country is really heading into an abyss.

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• kojo 10 years ago

  The prof. is afraid of competition. He wants government to allow him to enjoy monopolisation of university education. some of the polytechnics are even better than his varsity.

  The prof. is afraid of competition. He wants government to allow him to enjoy monopolisation of university education. some of the polytechnics are even better than his varsity.

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• kojo 10 years ago

  it's good for the government to convert them. Those private universities are killing HND graduates with their high fees. Even most of the public varsities have also been taking undue advantageof HND graduates and as a result ...
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  it's good for the government to convert them. Those private universities are killing HND graduates with their high fees. Even most of the public varsities have also been taking undue advantageof HND graduates and as a result charging high fees for top ups.

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• HAZOR 10 years ago

  Professor please next time i would expect you to for funding on research and don't be afraid of NDC primitive insults who only cases about wrecking their own country and depend on other countries of their needs.Without fundin ...
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  Professor please next time i would expect you to for funding on research and don't be afraid of NDC primitive insults who only cases about wrecking their own country and depend on other countries of their needs.Without fundings our Technical Universities cound not but raw materials to do research and they are not magicians to command raw materials to appear to them to use to do they research.

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• Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

  Who said technical universities do not provide on hand trades and skills? Technical universities are a perfect fit for our mother Ghana where there is not enough post secondary institutions to admit majority graduates from ou ...
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  Who said technical universities do not provide on hand trades and skills? Technical universities are a perfect fit for our mother Ghana where there is not enough post secondary institutions to admit majority graduates from our secondary schools; it has contributed to the creation of a cottage industry of nepotism, bribery and corruption with the university admission system. Technical universities are everywhere in civilized indusrialized nations because they offer a dual carriage system for students who may want to pursue trade skills with requisites to expose themselves to the administrative and management skills for small business minded students. Dr. Yankah must not use a failed university system in Ghana to paint the idea of technical universities with the same brush. In some cities and states across the USA most African migrants who were educationally ill-prepared prior to going over do start at technical universities where they earn certification in the various trade, mostly inbthr hone care industry, to obtain skilled employment with sustaining wages. Most do return later to the technical universities where they apply credits earned previously towards applicable degrees. Government must know that those at current university systems in Ghana cannot be trusted to give an unbiased advice knowing that the opening up of technical universities take away from them the monetary basis for their existence. Is competition not good for these privately held universities? Government must not delay but go full throttle ahead with technical universities which will help most who otherwise could not gain admission to current university systems by choice, design and or by those who posses the skills to prosper in hands-on 4-year degree environment currently non existing at the University system.

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• Gula 10 years ago

  The man is afraid the university he heads would not get the number of students expected if the decision is implemented thus denying them of income. He is fighting for his boss!

  The man is afraid the university he heads would not get the number of students expected if the decision is implemented thus denying them of income. He is fighting for his boss!

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• Ernest 10 years ago

  Prof is afraid he will not have students for their so called Top- up programmes for HND graduates. Those HND guys go for the degree later anyway, so by establishing technical universities for them, they can pursue their acade ...
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  Prof is afraid he will not have students for their so called Top- up programmes for HND graduates. Those HND guys go for the degree later anyway, so by establishing technical universities for them, they can pursue their academic pathway even to the phd level rather taking HND in engineering only to go for psychology at the degree level in the name of Top-
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• EZEKIEL 10 years ago

  Many think the Name.."University" alone is sufficient to move the country along.! The Polytechnics SHOULD be what they are in NAME but MORE RESOURCED to carry on what they arte SUPPOSED to do ..Practical AND Theory...!! Go to ...
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  Many think the Name.."University" alone is sufficient to move the country along.! The Polytechnics SHOULD be what they are in NAME but MORE RESOURCED to carry on what they arte SUPPOSED to do ..Practical AND Theory...!! Go to Germany and see what Polytechs can do to the Economy!!
  The Terminology.UNIVERSITY ALONE is SHIT...!!!The Prof. IS TALKING SENSE !!!!

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• Mefful 10 years ago

  Do we have the staff for the Tech Univ, and do we have to convert all? Are these polytechnics really offering science or technical? I bet most of the students are studying business (accounting etc). Finally, do we have the s ...
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  Do we have the staff for the Tech Univ, and do we have to convert all? Are these polytechnics really offering science or technical? I bet most of the students are studying business (accounting etc). Finally, do we have the students in spite of reduction in entry levels to the polytechnics?

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