Attempts to implement a new curriculum for basic schools have been described as political point-scoring by Advisory Board Chairman of the Ghana National Association of Private Schools in the Awutu Senya East Municipality.
Dr. Bright Honu speaking on Joy TV’s The Pulse show Wednesday, said that is the only way to explain why the Education Ministry is rushing with its implementation.
“As we speak the syllabus is not ready, textbooks are not ready and the teachers are not even prepared to teach come September 10,” he narrated to Ayisha Ibrahim, host of The Pulse.
The New Curriculum
The new education curriculum was launched by the Ghana Education Service (GES) in April this year as part of ongoing reforms in the sector.
Tracking the history of basic education in Ghana, he said before the JSS system was introduced, it was done meticulously so that it neither affected negatively the students nor the teachers who gave instructions on it.
It was a policy that was long formulated by the President of the First Republic, Dr Kwame Nkrumah but according to him successive governments including the Busia regime did not implement it because they wanted logistics necessary for its implementation to be available first.
By the time President JJ Rawlings and his government implemented it, the logistics and the personnel to administer same were fully in place.
The example, he says must be emulated by this government.
The current approach, he claimed, looked rushed and sudden.
“The GES is approaching this on ad hoc basis. At the end of the day, it is the Ghanaian child who will be affected,” Dr Honu warned.
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