Dean for the School of Educational Development and Outreach (SEDO) at the Institute of Educational Planning and Administration of the University of Cape Coast, Professor George Kwaku Toku Oduro says the biggest challenge of Ghana’s educational system is the implementation of recommendations churned out from the educational review committees.
According to Prof Oduro, subsequent governments have not given priority to the implementation of the reports and recommendations on Ghana’s educational reforms presented by the various commissions instituted by such governments.
This, he said, has been a contributing factor to achieving the best of the country’s educational goals and objectives thereby affecting the development of the country after 65 years of independence.
Professor George Oduro who made this revelation on the Atlantic Wave on Thursday, March 2, 2022, indicated that the country continues to lack proper reforms in the educational sector has been largely due to it being in the interest of politicians other than social needs.
“He comes and thinks that quickly I must do something. So, we have issues where the same thing; you go into it, you see the same thing with ‘renaming’ being the order of the day. Until we change our orientation and allow educational issues to be viewed from the lens of education, we will have so many reforms but our problems will continue with us as Ghanaians,” he said.
He, therefore, urged politicians, especially the government to develop an attitude for continuity of policies and programs from their successors.
He is of the accession that if politicians build on what they come to meet and identify strategic gaps, the challenges in the education sector will be minimized.
“If we had progressed and developed the operation feed yourself, we won’t be talking about planting for food and jobs today,” he queried
Relatedly, the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Cape Coast, Professor Sarah Darkwa called on the government to do proper stakeholder consultation in making educational policies
She also indicated that much focus and attention must also be given to technical and vocational education.
Prof. Darkwa stated, “technical education is very important and you ask yourself are we really practicing or delving into the real technical and vocational education”.
According to her, it is still the NVTI who are really practicing and the rest are just in name. This, she explains must be critically looked at.
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Source: Eric Sekyi/ATLFMNEWS
