My son just got admitted to do medicinie
I will have to pay c100m( ONE HUNCRED MILLION OLD GHANA CEDIS)
500 candidates qualified, 150 got admitted, the remainder if lucky may have to pay that amount. If you do not pay, the ... read full comment
My son just got admitted to do medicinie
I will have to pay c100m( ONE HUNCRED MILLION OLD GHANA CEDIS)
500 candidates qualified, 150 got admitted, the remainder if lucky may have to pay that amount. If you do not pay, the NIGERIANS will pay.
chamcham 10 years ago
WELL SAID
NOW HOW TO IMPLEMENT THESE IDEAS!
WELL DONE, BRO
WELL SAID
NOW HOW TO IMPLEMENT THESE IDEAS!
WELL DONE, BRO
GHANAMAN 10 years ago
It is very sad that these days our university and polytechnic lecturers are promoted based on one and a half years, online PhD certificates. These online PhD programs have no research components. It is therefore not surprisin ... read full comment
It is very sad that these days our university and polytechnic lecturers are promoted based on one and a half years, online PhD certificates. These online PhD programs have no research components. It is therefore not surprising that many of our so called lecturers/Senior lecturers and Professor can hardly boast of publication in high quality international journals. They only publish in low quality journals.The various appointment and promotion committees, NCTE and NAB should look at the requirements for promottion and appointment critically
Paa Kwesi Mintah 10 years ago
Cousin, greetings of the highest order from our relatives in the horseback district, where I'm always greeted with the best soup to boil in a cauldron, featuring all the crabs and fishes of our shoreline.
Although you've ... read full comment
Cousin, greetings of the highest order from our relatives in the horseback district, where I'm always greeted with the best soup to boil in a cauldron, featuring all the crabs and fishes of our shoreline.
Although you've been in the education arena for over 40yrs as a teacher at various levels, your observations are so wrong I can't wait to pour cold water on it. So get a front seat and watch me do it.
You idea of what a "University" is and represents is very archaic indeed. You view the university institution in elitist terms. In medieval times, schooling took place in the exclusive chambers of the Kings court and peasant in possession of a parchment and writing materials was considered a thief. The monastery became the arena tasked to produced scripts and all the codex we know today.
It really is outrageous and irksome for you to write:
"Universities attract the best brains or crème de la crème of society, so that these people can put their talents to good use to benefit society."
You know that is not true, if you've ever had the opportunity to experience the type of education offered abroad. (Not Africa).
The egalitarian access to university education is based on the principle that one will be transformed into an enlightened scholar in all the artistic and scientific philosophies.
Society in general doesn't look up to universities to solve problems but rather products of universities to solve problems.
There's this inordinate emphasis on academic degree acquisition in Ghana, when those with we know those with academic letters produce next to nothing for the national pie. They rather take away or consume the pie without any effort to produce.
Ghana needs to invest in vocational training where young people can acquire skills in welding, electrician apprentice, plumbing, brick laying, carpentry and masonry. Cousin, I'm sure you know the current lads in Winneba lack the canoe and paddle fishing skills of our forefathers, They can't catch a minnow without pre-mix fuel these days.
You should also know that 90% of students on the university academic track cannot string a sentence together. They rather think a "sentence" is a court judgment. Have you ever attempted reading some of the articles submitted to Ghanaweb from some these graduates? It's real embarrassing, to say the least.
All those private universities should be converted to carpentry and welding shops to train the students. University education is overrated in Ghana and presents a false sense of achievement. The government of Ghana should convert one of the universities into a vocational training institution where one can gain welding, plumbing, carpentry and masonry skills.
As usual you article couldn't spare us your ad hominem forays into Latin quotations, biblical quotes and even Cinderella fairy tale. Haba, cousin. You tried hard to avoid your usual Listology but you presented shadows of it.
How do you expect us to translate this gibberish you wrote:
"Our universities need to establish backward, lateral, horizontal and forward linkages in the value and supply chains so that they can remain relevant and useful to their communities, and not be perceived as ivory towers which are inured from the problems and expectations of their communities"
Horizonta? Lateral? Backwards linkages? Haba, cousin. OK, I am going to sign with my arms to get this horizontal, lateral, upwards, downward linkages right. I am doing it right now and faster so you should see my hand movements all over the place. Ahem! You're not making any sense here.
And then here's another one that doesn't make sense:
"To remain internationally competitive, our universities in Ghana should develop unique competences and unique selling points in their 4Ps and 7Ps so that they attract some of the best professors in the world and some international students."
4P-7P is algebra and the answer is -3P. I had no idea that was an educational lingo and if so, please tell us what those are. I swear it's one of those Listology acronyms. Haba, cousin, haba. You're too much but I love you.
You always present some impossible dictum when you start babbling. Thank God you're no king of Effutu else we couldn't survive in Winneba with your high expectations for us to host the Olympics, as you expect the Universities in Ghana to produce Nobel Laureates. Ahhh, What a dreamer. Tell us the type of pillow you use - foam, feather, cotton filled or savannah grass seeds pillow? Pray tell, right now because I want to dream the same dream you have in your nightly visions where you see all these parading Nobel winners from Ghanaian universities. Haba, cousin. Ain't this far fetched? Uh?
What do you mean when you write this:
"It is important for our universities to establish their reputation through publication of research work in international journal, and to produce Nobel Laureates"
You would've been a millionaire by now had you obtained you preachers license a long time ago. It seems every article to spit out today has a biblical verse. Now this:
"This is based on Luke 12:48, where Jesus said, ‘For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required."
And then the Latin quotes:
"omni autem cui multum datum est multum quaeretur as eo (but to whosoever much has been given, much will be asked of him) (Wikipedia). The motto of the University of Ghana (established in 1948 as a University College under the University of London) is: Integri Procedamus, which means, ‘progress in integrity or proceeding with integrity"
In conclusion, I'll say you're too hanged up on academia and university education. They're really not important and overrated. The great men and pioneers of modern industry never set foot in any university so give us a break.
"Thinking" cannot be taught.
Saaaalute from the forehead to waist with a thundering foot stomp and a loud applause amid wild cheering, whaaaam.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago
Hi Cousin, I miss you. You know what? I got lost in the academic jungle of Zambia and I hear you organised a rescue team of Special Forces from Ghana and USA, a combined team of Seals, Marines and BNI, FBI and CIA to look for ... read full comment
Hi Cousin, I miss you. You know what? I got lost in the academic jungle of Zambia and I hear you organised a rescue team of Special Forces from Ghana and USA, a combined team of Seals, Marines and BNI, FBI and CIA to look for me but they drew a black, till your second team of Nobel Laureates from the Ivy League and Russell Group found me buried deep in a mountainous heap of tomes of ancient lore, grazing on the classics and some looney arcane literature, so esoteric that the team immediately recommended me to become an Honorary Laureate! Then from my reverie, I saw you with Forest Whittaker, Will Smith, Jamie Fox, Denzel Washington, Beyonce, and Michael Jordan planning to make a movie of my exploits, with all the copyrights and proceeds donated to the fisherfolk at Aboadza, Ponkoekyir, Oseenee, Wonsom, Penkye, Eyipe, Mborabamu, Donkweyem, among other suburds of Wlnneba. Saaalute to you. Whaaaam! Stand by for more barrage of articles and zany words and poetry.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago
Meant they drew a blank, not black.
Meant they drew a blank, not black.
Ghanaba, USA 10 years ago
I like the current discourse on our "TERTIARY" education. The solution or model for our tertiary education is a hybrid of the ideas including the ones from O. Bosompra-Gyeabour and Paa Kwesi Mintah. We should not always trans ... read full comment
I like the current discourse on our "TERTIARY" education. The solution or model for our tertiary education is a hybrid of the ideas including the ones from O. Bosompra-Gyeabour and Paa Kwesi Mintah. We should not always transplant things from "Aburokyire" but modify the ideas to suit the environment and develop our country.Neither too academic nor too "low tech".
Tekonline.org 10 years ago
"...Society in general doesn't look up to universities to solve problems but rather products of universities to solve problems..."
"...Society in general doesn't look up to universities to solve problems but rather products of universities to solve problems..."
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago
Universities and their products in this context are one and the same.
Universities and their products in this context are one and the same.
My son just got admitted to do medicinie
I will have to pay c100m( ONE HUNCRED MILLION OLD GHANA CEDIS)
500 candidates qualified, 150 got admitted, the remainder if lucky may have to pay that amount. If you do not pay, the ...
read full comment
WELL SAID
NOW HOW TO IMPLEMENT THESE IDEAS!
WELL DONE, BRO
It is very sad that these days our university and polytechnic lecturers are promoted based on one and a half years, online PhD certificates. These online PhD programs have no research components. It is therefore not surprisin ...
read full comment
Cousin, greetings of the highest order from our relatives in the horseback district, where I'm always greeted with the best soup to boil in a cauldron, featuring all the crabs and fishes of our shoreline.
Although you've ...
read full comment
Hi Cousin, I miss you. You know what? I got lost in the academic jungle of Zambia and I hear you organised a rescue team of Special Forces from Ghana and USA, a combined team of Seals, Marines and BNI, FBI and CIA to look for ...
read full comment
Meant they drew a blank, not black.
I like the current discourse on our "TERTIARY" education. The solution or model for our tertiary education is a hybrid of the ideas including the ones from O. Bosompra-Gyeabour and Paa Kwesi Mintah. We should not always trans ...
read full comment
"...Society in general doesn't look up to universities to solve problems but rather products of universities to solve problems..."
Universities and their products in this context are one and the same.