These exams leakages must stop!

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• Kwabena Yeboah 8 years ago

  Nation building is not for dummies, this is precisely why Ghana, and to a larger extent the continent is too far behind the west and the Asian Tigers. Everything we have done as a nation after the overthrow of Dr. Nkrumah has ...
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  Nation building is not for dummies, this is precisely why Ghana, and to a larger extent the continent is too far behind the west and the Asian Tigers. Everything we have done as a nation after the overthrow of Dr. Nkrumah has failed, yet we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again.
  
  I read this morning elsewhere about Mahama giving WASSCE warning and asking them to keep its house in order. Is that all Mahama can do - just give warnings? There was a time during JA Kufuor's NPP government a whole school in one jurisdiction in Ghana failed the WASSCE. There were about three instances under Kufuor where SSS students who took the WASSCE failed en bloc. And what did JA Kufuor and his NPP do? Absolutely nothing!!!
  
  I have always maintained that Ghana must get out of WASSCE if we are serious about building our country. We must cut ties with the useless WASSCE, and in fact sever our umbilical cord with all the useless affiliations with the toothless ECOWAS.
  
  Everything about ECOWAS since inception has been a disaster. For those who do not understand why there is ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States). This loose and useless organization was formed in 1975 to promote economic trade, national cooperation, and monetary union, for growth and development throughout West Africa. And as can be expected from all African organizations, it is one failure after another. ECOWAS has failed in all of its objectives - not one objective has been achieved after 41 years since inception. Let us look at ECOWAS' prime focus: Trade among member countries; after 41 years, there is only 11% trade among ECOWAS nations - member countries are happy to trade with their former colonial lords more than their fellow ECOWAS members. The second objective is National Cooperation. You be the judge. What national cooperation exists between ECOWAS members, besides useless annual meetings by their heads of state that don't produce results. The least said about the last objective - single currency for all the 15 members, the better. Because how can these idiots who lack conviction of purpose, and as a result have failed many times over their own objectives maintain a viable single currency in a region marked by corruption and economic malfeasance?
  
  Now back to my main point, WASSCE. How can any government in its right mind depend on WASSCE to effectively train our engineers, scientists, lawyers, etc., etc., for our development needs? Nations are built with brains not dummies, and until we pull out of the obtuse WASSCE and build our own carriculum targeted to our educational needs, we must as well say goodbye to our national development. We can never build a nation with the present crop of WASSCE graduates - it is just impossible.
  
  
  
  
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• IDRIS PACAS 8 years ago

  Everybody should provide clues that can lead authorities to the wrongdoers.
  
  Anyway, students don't write or rewrite exams but they take or sit for exams. Again they retake or resit for the exams, just for your grammar.

  Everybody should provide clues that can lead authorities to the wrongdoers.
  
  Anyway, students don't write or rewrite exams but they take or sit for exams. Again they retake or resit for the exams, just for your grammar.

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