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• AGBESI KWESI 8 years ago

  In trying to justify why professors of Mechanical Engineering at the KNUST could not repair their vehicles when they break down, academicians of this university have come out to claim that these KNUST professors could not do ...
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  In trying to justify why professors of Mechanical Engineering at the KNUST could not repair their vehicles when they break down, academicians of this university have come out to claim that these KNUST professors could not do so because they are not mechanics - even though these same people teach automobile engineering. This is unpardonable and these professors could be forgiven if they were physicists - remember most of the theories and formulae in mechanical engineering are produced by physicists. This is shocking because I don't know the kind of engineering training these KNUST professors are offering our youth and I can now see why products of our universities become useless when they don't get others to employ them. It will be very shocking to see a professor of mining engineering who cannot do blasting or use the theodolite to do surveying and so professors of KNUST have no excuse. It appears that education in Ghana is not meant to empower the youth for good deeds but just a means to seek white-colour jobs. Elsewhere it is not so. I once worked with a Ghanaian agriculturist, trained in Romania, as teachers in a secondary school. This man was teaching General Agric, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry whiles I handled Maths, Gen Science and Farm Mechanization. This man was so good at his area that I asked him why he is different from his counterparts trained in Ghana. It was after my inquiry the man told me that in Romania, to be an agriculturist, you need to be trained in both the theoretical and practical aspects of the programme. The practical aspects include plowing, shooting, swimming, how to set traps for different rodents that destroy crops, how to dismantle the engine of a tractor and fix it , basic animal surgery, how to construct silos and other storage facilities, etc. When he was posted to teach at the secondary school, he really inspired his students with his practical know-how. What even baffled me in that school was that the school was having survey instruments like the chain, theodolite, ranging poles, prismatic compasses, etc, yet the geography tutor, who was a graduate teacher from the University of Ghana could not use them - even though the geography syllabus at the SSCE level demanded that students should learn how to use them. I had to teach them the use of those instrumenst although I am not a university graduate. So you see how our intellectuals are misleading the youth.

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• Sam 8 years ago

  Mechnaical engineers can't even project a bike let alone what you are suggesting. Joseph Bazalgette invented drainage sewerage system in the U.K over 100 years ago and it is still working. Google his name.

  Mechnaical engineers can't even project a bike let alone what you are suggesting. Joseph Bazalgette invented drainage sewerage system in the U.K over 100 years ago and it is still working. Google his name.

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• Tink Image 8 years ago

  Remember the doctor does not cure his own diseases. The theories or practical know how in the book most of the time does not show how to fix a new BMW or Toyota V8 made in Germany or Japan so the low grade fitter or road side ...
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  Remember the doctor does not cure his own diseases. The theories or practical know how in the book most of the time does not show how to fix a new BMW or Toyota V8 made in Germany or Japan so the low grade fitter or road side mechanic who has learn how to fix this cars can do a better job than a PHD professor of auto engineering at the university.

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• Fine boy 8 years ago

  Prophet Muhammed (SAW) birthday??? Hmmmm my dear Muslims!!! May Almighty guide from going astray it's really worrying!

  Prophet Muhammed (SAW) birthday??? Hmmmm my dear Muslims!!! May Almighty guide from going astray it's really worrying!

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• Tony 8 years ago

  Infact i must confess that the NPP is making governance tough for NDC and other parties should they come to power again.
  How can we manage to sustain zongo develop't fund should we come to power please minority rise up!

  Infact i must confess that the NPP is making governance tough for NDC and other parties should they come to power again.
  How can we manage to sustain zongo develop't fund should we come to power please minority rise up!

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• Che Andrew 8 years ago

  The NPP will fall on its on sward. The law will be there. All that they can do is to pay illiterate Arabic teachers to brainwash their equally illiterate children in to chanting arabic which will not take them anywhere. Let ...
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  The NPP will fall on its on sward. The law will be there. All that they can do is to pay illiterate Arabic teachers to brainwash their equally illiterate children in to chanting arabic which will not take them anywhere. Let them just manage this first fund and the can of warms will be opened.

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• Nii Sakumono 8 years ago

  Zongo is a waste of time. Government should move on to better things. Zongo people dont want to work they are lazy money changers, who do nothing to help the society why spend the money on them? Their wives which most of the ...
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  Zongo is a waste of time. Government should move on to better things. Zongo people dont want to work they are lazy money changers, who do nothing to help the society why spend the money on them? Their wives which most of the men has two or three of them and multiple children. The women do all the work while the men sit around doing nothing better to improve their condition.The only thing they think about is going to Mecca and be called Alhaji. Prove me wrong.

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• Just good 8 years ago

  Cool, Nana will make it better for everyone

  Cool, Nana will make it better for everyone

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