Listen to more views from stakeholders in education – Prof Opoku-Agyemang urges the government

General News on Friday, April 12, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-04-12

The former Minister of Education, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, urged the government to consider the opinions of teachers and school leaders in its policies in order to create a system of education. 39, stable education in Ghana.

According to her, the administration of the National Democratic Congress (NEC) had largely achieved its educational policies because it took into account the divergent opinions and suggestions of the stakeholders.

S addressing students and lecturers at a series of lectures organized by the NDC at the University of Cape Coast on the state of education in Ghana, the first woman Vice Chancellor of Ghana said that education was about connecting minds, tolerating and respecting divergent views.

She said that fiercely attacking people who express divergent views is detrimental to the progress of education in Ghana.

Referring to certain events under her leadership as Minister of Education in the NDC administration, she stated that despite the lie, her administration remained calm and managed the situation without retaliating against teachers and other actors in education.

"When some people claimed that there was no chalk in the clbadroom or were trying to get the children to lie on the floor, there was sometimes furniture at their disposal; when newsmen and women ignored the new clbadrooms and showed pictures of the dilapidated room abandoned at the time the children were learning, our solution was not to flex the muscles; ," she says.

She stated that the NDC had created, adopted, practiced and maintained a climate of tolerance and that their administration had at no time dismissed a school head or a teacher for expressing divergent opinions.

In schools under trees, she asks, "Where are those who donated to schools where children were seen lying on their stomachs and writing".

Naana Opoku-Agyeman, a teacher, says she is sad to learn that more than 700 trained and certified teachers have failed sit-down exams and have become unusable, depending on how the standards are implemented.

"A government that cares about youth begins by giving it the opportunity to develop skills leading to economic independence, but guess what, students fell in love with the free allowance and are now faced with options that have not been clearly explained to them, "she said.

Felix Kwakye Ofosu and Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa also spoke.