Current education system is okay - Dean of Medical School

Cape Coast, Aug. 1, GNA - The Dean of the School Medical Sciences of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Professor George Brobbey on Friday observed that there was nothing wrong with the current system of education in the country and that it was not inferior to the old system as was being perceived.

He said comparatively, the performance of Senior Secondary School graduates at the tertiary level was better than that of sixth-formers, under the old educational system, stressing, that changing the old system of education was a good decision.

Prof. Brobbery, who is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Saint Augustine's College, at Cape Coast, made the observation, when a group of American academics currently on a month's educational tour of the country, were briefed about the country's educational reform programme during a visit to the school.

The group, had accompanied two brothers, Professor Joseph Adjaye of the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and Dr Robert Adjaye, Vice-President of the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GIE), both past students of the College, to donate some trophies and books worth 300 dollars and 10 million cedis, respectively, to the school.

"We've compared the two and right now, the SSS system is slightly better. As time goes on, the SSS system would be even better", he declared.

He said what was need to enhance the reform programme was the provision of adequate logistical support.

He, therefore, called on Ghanaians to refrain from being conservative and to endeavour to accept the change in the educational system, particularly, as the number of years spent in school under the old system had been too long.

The trophies were donated to the school by Prof. Adjaye to be competed for in inter-house competition at the school, in football, athletics, tennis and volleyball as his contribution towards the improvement of sports in the school.

Dr Adjaye also presented the books, numbering about 36 and in various subject areas, like computer technology, mathematics and science, on behalf of the GIE.

The Chairman of the School Board, Mr Justice Tom Bentil and the headmaster, Mr Frank Amissah, expressed gratitude for the gesture. Dr Adjaye told the GNA that the GIE through its contacts, both at home and abroad, was able to acquire the textbooks and donated them to the schools on request.