Ghana's teachers are "pure criminals", says Professor Adei

General News on Thursday, January 24, 2019

Source: clbadfmonline.com

2019-01-24

Ghanaian teachers in public elementary schools are "criminals" because "they do not teach" but take their salary and send their children to private schools, said a former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and of Public Administration (GIMPA), I said.

This attitude of Ghanaian teachers, he said, affects the quality of education at the primary level.

Responding to critics who argue that the dual track government system will affect the quality of education at the high school level, Professor Adei told Benjamin Akakpo at the Clbad91.3FM Executive Breakfast Show: "The quality problems have nothing to do with the dual track. system. The problem of quality lies above all in our basic education.

"Eighty per cent of Ghanaian children attend public elementary schools, and if you go, many teachers are pure criminals. They do not teach, and worst of all: people trained as teachers and paid more than 1,000 GHS per month to teach in public schools, send their children to private basic schools where teachers are high school chess. "

"In other words, they say we will not teach and we will get our children to learn through chess with no high school training. Why? Because there, their children will go and go to high school, "said Professor Adei.

In his view, the solution to Ghana's educational malice "is to ensure that public schools teach, and that's always up to supervision. At the moment, even teacher training is not the most important thing but supervision and accountability and the fact that they do not teach, they are fired, without the addition of a pesewa, you can at least improve the quality of basic education. Four times and once you get better graduates of basic education, you immediately improve secondary education. "

He noted that for him, Ghana had "the worst system of basic education in terms of quality and performance around the world.Go to Togo, every child enrolled for two years can read. Any Ghanaian [public basic] the school and see if there is a second-clbad student who knows how to read and you will not get more than one in 10 students, and yet, me, Stephen Adei, I can teach a child to read within three months, provided he is five years old. old…"

Professor Adei, among others, was the former head of the United Nations system in South Africa, UNDP resident representative in Namibia, economist and head of the Africa Bureau of Management, UNDP, New York ; Chief Economist of the Commonwealth Secretariat in London, he was also a staff member of the Ghana Investment Center where he was promoted to the position of Deputy Director and Head of Research.

He has taught economics at the University of Ghana and at the University of Sydney and has conducted several consulting badignments.