Thank JJ Rawlings and Dan Abdodapki: You had SCHOLARSHIP SECRETARIAT TO PUSH YOU THROUGH THE SYSTEM:
I have been to many places and seen many things to persuade me that the kind of education system that we have in Ghana (s ... read full comment
Thank JJ Rawlings and Dan Abdodapki: You had SCHOLARSHIP SECRETARIAT TO PUSH YOU THROUGH THE SYSTEM:
I have been to many places and seen many things to persuade me that the kind of education system that we have in Ghana (since the immediate independence era) hasn't helped the Ghanaian youth to know how to deal with life in school or after school just because of the lack of guidance and counselling. In other countries, structures are in place to help the youth know where to go after schooling. And the youth don't fear the future for as long as they know how to navigate the alleys of life-after-school.
Mohammed Dimbie 10 years ago
You call yourself Akadu Mensema but you are an Associate Professor of History at the wayside Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and can't even string together any single sentence of your own to make sense to readers. Yet ... read full comment
You call yourself Akadu Mensema but you are an Associate Professor of History at the wayside Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and can't even string together any single sentence of your own to make sense to readers. Yet, you have the nerves to bad-mouth others.
You have all these years been making the false claim that Bokor enjoyed scholarship from the JJ Rawlings government/Scholarship Secretariat but can't substantiate it.
This Bokor guy is a self-made man. Why don't you go to the English Department at the University of Cape Coast to find things out for yourself? Or, even the Ghana Institute of Journalism, which trained him between October 1982 and June 1984?
My friend, you are a CHEAP man.
LAWRENCE TANDOH 10 years ago
Mr.Dimbie, why waste your precious time on tius hopeless and good for nothing idiot called Akurag who always pretend to be a woman? I look forward to the day when this clone dog would make a single sense for the good of this ... read full comment
Mr.Dimbie, why waste your precious time on tius hopeless and good for nothing idiot called Akurag who always pretend to be a woman? I look forward to the day when this clone dog would make a single sense for the good of this country. A very stupid man without equal who is fooool and stupid of tribalism. Even if Bokor had a schorlaship to study abroad, it is his efforts that made it necessary for him. By the way, is Bokor not a Ghanaian who also deserve what even Ashantis too deserve? Yaka gbomo! Akurang you are the biggest stuoid idiot of this century.
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
If speaking truth to power is what makes me a dirty tribalist, then hurray, I take it as a baege of honor!
If speaking truth to power is what makes me a dirty tribalist, then hurray, I take it as a baege of honor!
Mate 10 years ago
Dr Mr Akadu, learn to spell please.
Dr Mr Akadu, learn to spell please.
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
So let Bokor speak for himsel. After all he can speak on behalf of Kpegah. Find out how Bokor left GIJ for CapeVas, etc. and you will bring yourself to cuddle the porous essays he writes here!
So let Bokor speak for himsel. After all he can speak on behalf of Kpegah. Find out how Bokor left GIJ for CapeVas, etc. and you will bring yourself to cuddle the porous essays he writes here!
Li 10 years ago
Until we prioritize technical and vocational education we will continue to wallow in poverty.Polytechnic education is key to our development and sustenance.
Until we prioritize technical and vocational education we will continue to wallow in poverty.Polytechnic education is key to our development and sustenance.
ABU 10 years ago
The tribal therapist and methodologist Akadu.Why not blame the systemic failure on the global Ghanaian leadership rather than on a single tribe?.
The tribal therapist and methodologist Akadu.Why not blame the systemic failure on the global Ghanaian leadership rather than on a single tribe?.
Akadu Mensema 10 years ago
Abu and what and who are you? Bokor knows what I am talking about! If our educational system is bad, it is simply because he is an example of how the educational system was compromised as a result of nepotism, cronyism, triba ... read full comment
Abu and what and who are you? Bokor knows what I am talking about! If our educational system is bad, it is simply because he is an example of how the educational system was compromised as a result of nepotism, cronyism, tribalism, etc. We Ghanaian are funny indeed: instead of searching for the truth, we like to call people's credentials into question. If Akurang-Parry teaches at Shippensburg University, look for his contributions to scholarship.
MARCUS AMPADU 10 years ago
As a nation, we have failed to answer this basic question:What knowledge is of the most worth at this 21 st century of our checkered history?
Can we all agree on finding a suitable answer to this basic question before we wor ... read full comment
As a nation, we have failed to answer this basic question:What knowledge is of the most worth at this 21 st century of our checkered history?
Can we all agree on finding a suitable answer to this basic question before we worry about how to structure a good guidance and counseling programme for the youth.
Mohammed Dimbie 10 years ago
Education is simply "to be trained to fit into one's society". So, what is it that you are talking about, Marcus Ampadu?
If the education being given Ghanaians can't train them to fit into the society and make their contri ... read full comment
Education is simply "to be trained to fit into one's society". So, what is it that you are talking about, Marcus Ampadu?
If the education being given Ghanaians can't train them to fit into the society and make their contributions for the advancement of the society, it is useless. It is worse if guidance and counselling are lacking. That is the main point for you to note.
Conventional Youth 10 years ago
Ghana constitutes an environment ripe for optimum business but do we have legal, economic, political, social, cultural and technological systems that works effectively and efficiently?. If not then some componets of commerc ... read full comment
Ghana constitutes an environment ripe for optimum business but do we have legal, economic, political, social, cultural and technological systems that works effectively and efficiently?. If not then some componets of commerce are not working in tandiem with the systems or the environment that affects business prospects of the economy.
A component of business which includes all activities, functions and institutions involved in transferring goods and services from producers to consumers effectively, to the best of may knowledge is STEMICs.
Bokor/Dimbie, to me education is more than to be "trained to fit into one' s society".
Going by its Latin etymology, "educo - educere ", I'll not hesitate to define education more
as to lead out of "darkness". If one does n ... read full comment
Bokor/Dimbie, to me education is more than to be "trained to fit into one' s society".
Going by its Latin etymology, "educo - educere ", I'll not hesitate to define education more
as to lead out of "darkness". If one does not know something, one is shrouded in darkness - one is, to put it mildly, just ignorant.
The sad fact of the matter is that there are lots of us walking around in total darkness.
What we don't know now in 21st century Ghana far exceed what our forebears didn't know during their time.
KKO 10 years ago
Marcus,
You are right up to a certain point, but it is also true that education is meant to fit its recepients into society as our traditional "linguists, oral historians and herbalists", etc, were meant to.
Unfortunatel ... read full comment
Marcus,
You are right up to a certain point, but it is also true that education is meant to fit its recepients into society as our traditional "linguists, oral historians and herbalists", etc, were meant to.
Unfortunately, that is what even some of our PhD holders have not been able to do, as displayed on radio and television stations and the newspapers. It shows in our politicians when they take mobile phones from foreign countries and approve questionable contracts, when they approve agreements for purchases in which prices have been inflated 300 to 500%, when they ignore the Auditor General's revelation of annual thievery. And the list goes on.
It is not that the people who perpetrate this abominations do not know that these are wrong doings, they simply have not learnt to apply the knowledge they learnt at whatever level of education, for the betterment and the good of society. That is the tragedy of our education system.
When our president continues to appoint ineffective committees and reviews of GYEEDA, Isofoton, etc, do you really believe that he does not know what to do for the god of the people of Ghana? He is dribbling around because he really does not give a toss about what happens to society!
Bishop 10 years ago
I have never met this man b4 but always respects him and will do so forever for his exce;;ent contributions on this forum. All the best in the new year Marcus.
From Da Bishop
I have never met this man b4 but always respects him and will do so forever for his exce;;ent contributions on this forum. All the best in the new year Marcus.
From Da Bishop
USMAN 10 years ago
Bokor is right by identifying the major problem bedeviling our educational system but fell short of offering an effective solution to the canker. According to Bokor:"...every student entering the system is lumped up together ... read full comment
Bokor is right by identifying the major problem bedeviling our educational system but fell short of offering an effective solution to the canker. According to Bokor:"...every student entering the system is lumped up together with the rest and general education imposed on all to make them jacks of all trades but masters of none". This is perfectly true but the solution he offered- vis-a-vis the use of guidance and counselling units to solve this problem- is not an effective way of solving the problem. I can confidently say that most teachers in the Ghana Education Service( GES) hold 1st Degrees in Guidance and Counseling and even the GES has no place for a whole lot of them who return from Winneba and Cape Vars. Inspite of this huge numbers of Guidance and Counseling personnel in the GES it is unfortunate our educational system is mostly skewed in one direction towards the arts, humanities and general education even up to the PhD level. The question then is what can a typical guidance and counseling coordinator, trained by the University of Education or UCC, who are mostly conversant with the classical subjects, offer a student who want to pursue engineering as a profession? It is true that the GES is trying hard to impose general education on everybody and the Achimota-Legon axis of evil is supervising this nonsense. For instance, when the Mahama administration proposed to convert polytechnics to technical universities there have been so many attempts to ensure this noble concept does not come to fruition and it is people like Professor Ernest Aryittey who are championing this course. A case in point is when Prof Aryittey in trying to lobby Prof Naana Opoku Agyeman during one of their nefarious colloquiua came up with a communique stating that specialised education should only be encouraged at the higher(PhD) level. Ever since this stupid utterance was made by Prof Aryittey and his bunch of idiotic university pupil teachers calling themselves academicians, who are not even critical paedagogists, I have not heard any intellectual in Ghana coming out to condemn them. This is the direct reminiscence of what happened in the USA after David Kolb propounded his famous Experiential Learning Theory which seeks to encourage technical education from the basic level of education upwards. When the US government made an attempt to adopt portions of Kolb's theory, providers of general education( mostly universities) in the US became threatened for survival and started lobbying the US senate to reject Kolb's theory. You see, It appears there are people who are cashing in on the provision of general education, which is useless, and so they are doing everything to suppress specialized education in any form and manifestation. There is no denying the fact that general education is good for certain professions like law, journalism and the training of scholars but when it comes to initiating development proving employment specialized education is more efficient. This is why the Ghana government must directly intervene by making laws and policies that will help equip our youth with the much needed skills that will transform the economy because left to the traditional universities they will continue to lead us astray. Secondly, government must review the northern scholarship, which appears to be impoverishing the north, by making it only available to those who are ready to study the technical and science courses. This is the singular act that can force the north to develop because the current wholesale northern scholarship is too luxury and only breeding 'talkatives'.
Bishop 10 years ago
I think your answer is the best
The below quote from you sums up the problem facing education in Ghana.
" Inspite of this huge numbers of Guidance and Counseling personnel in the GES it is unfortunate our educational sy ... read full comment
I think your answer is the best
The below quote from you sums up the problem facing education in Ghana.
" Inspite of this huge numbers of Guidance and Counseling personnel in the GES it is unfortunate our educational system is mostly skewed in one direction towards the arts, humanities and general education even up to the PhD level"
Whatever 10 years ago
You nailed it on the head
You nailed it on the head
ABU 10 years ago
This is a brain deemed to at least made part of the system and solution but unfortunately due to one or two reasons left to waste.For how long shall we continue allowing our precious brains waste away and continue filling our ... read full comment
This is a brain deemed to at least made part of the system and solution but unfortunately due to one or two reasons left to waste.For how long shall we continue allowing our precious brains waste away and continue filling our developmental machineries with incompetent human resources?
Thank JJ Rawlings and Dan Abdodapki: You had SCHOLARSHIP SECRETARIAT TO PUSH YOU THROUGH THE SYSTEM:
I have been to many places and seen many things to persuade me that the kind of education system that we have in Ghana (s ...
read full comment
You call yourself Akadu Mensema but you are an Associate Professor of History at the wayside Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania and can't even string together any single sentence of your own to make sense to readers. Yet ...
read full comment
Mr.Dimbie, why waste your precious time on tius hopeless and good for nothing idiot called Akurag who always pretend to be a woman? I look forward to the day when this clone dog would make a single sense for the good of this ...
read full comment
If speaking truth to power is what makes me a dirty tribalist, then hurray, I take it as a baege of honor!
Dr Mr Akadu, learn to spell please.
So let Bokor speak for himsel. After all he can speak on behalf of Kpegah. Find out how Bokor left GIJ for CapeVas, etc. and you will bring yourself to cuddle the porous essays he writes here!
Until we prioritize technical and vocational education we will continue to wallow in poverty.Polytechnic education is key to our development and sustenance.
The tribal therapist and methodologist Akadu.Why not blame the systemic failure on the global Ghanaian leadership rather than on a single tribe?.
Abu and what and who are you? Bokor knows what I am talking about! If our educational system is bad, it is simply because he is an example of how the educational system was compromised as a result of nepotism, cronyism, triba ...
read full comment
As a nation, we have failed to answer this basic question:What knowledge is of the most worth at this 21 st century of our checkered history?
Can we all agree on finding a suitable answer to this basic question before we wor ...
read full comment
Education is simply "to be trained to fit into one's society". So, what is it that you are talking about, Marcus Ampadu?
If the education being given Ghanaians can't train them to fit into the society and make their contri ...
read full comment
Ghana constitutes an environment ripe for optimum business but do we have legal, economic, political, social, cultural and technological systems that works effectively and efficiently?. If not then some componets of commerc ...
read full comment
Bokor/Dimbie, to me education is more than to be "trained to fit into one' s society".
Going by its Latin etymology, "educo - educere ", I'll not hesitate to define education more
as to lead out of "darkness". If one does n ...
read full comment
Marcus,
You are right up to a certain point, but it is also true that education is meant to fit its recepients into society as our traditional "linguists, oral historians and herbalists", etc, were meant to.
Unfortunatel ...
read full comment
I have never met this man b4 but always respects him and will do so forever for his exce;;ent contributions on this forum. All the best in the new year Marcus.
From Da Bishop
Bokor is right by identifying the major problem bedeviling our educational system but fell short of offering an effective solution to the canker. According to Bokor:"...every student entering the system is lumped up together ...
read full comment
I think your answer is the best
The below quote from you sums up the problem facing education in Ghana.
" Inspite of this huge numbers of Guidance and Counseling personnel in the GES it is unfortunate our educational sy ...
read full comment
You nailed it on the head
This is a brain deemed to at least made part of the system and solution but unfortunately due to one or two reasons left to waste.For how long shall we continue allowing our precious brains waste away and continue filling our ...
read full comment
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