A popular country’s finest educationists and statesmen Mr. Robert Ajene has revealed, that all past government since Nkrumah’s time has exhibited nothing but only lip service to the country’s educational system. Apexnewsgh.com report
“All past governments since Nkrumah’s time in 1959 have paid lip service to our educational system and stakeholders look like they are not playing a major role to see that we are in the right track in education”.
Mr. Ajene also hold a strong view that, teachers unions formed to help shape the educational system have failed to play their role as expected.
“We have teachers unions GNAT and so on, I don’t think they are playing their role to see that the colonial educational system which was given to us and later we find out that we were producing white color job. No single individual or organization can convince me with the role they have played right from the beginning of our educational system till today”.
“You see, we only try to change names, labels don’t matter. In this case, our educational system is still there but inside there, we keep on changing. He stressed
According to the retired Educationist, “since 1954, Ghana has been trying to change the educational system because we found that people who left Universities were not specially trained, so the mere acquisition of a degree meant that you could do anything. And 1957, I heard those who were responsible, we changed the system and we said, there was too much academic thinking, why can’t we blend this with pragmatism? ‘the using of the hands more than brain’ and many schools were changed over the day to secondary schools and most of them are technical school and they are just standing there by name, the technical aspect is not been taught and I can mention a lot of school SECTEC SECTEC SECTEC, if you send your child there, there is no technical aspect to do.
“We have heard about all these, what have we done to change? We set up Polytechnic to train middle-level manpower, how many polytechnics succeeded in doing that before they were changed overnight to Universities. People left polytechnic walking on the street without jobs because the training made them unemployable. That is why we have unemployed graduates. He stressed
Mr. Ajene made the revelation during an exclusive interview with Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen of Apexnewsgh.com
Apexnewsgh.com/Ghana/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen
Please contact Apexnewsgh.com on email apexnewsgh@gmail.com for your adverts and credible news publications. Contact: 05555568093
