Stop giving handouts to students – MP tells ‘lazy’ lecturers

Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education, Hon. Stevens Siaka has shamed lecturers who sell out handouts to students in the various tertiary institutions in the country describing the practice as a lazy approach to teaching.

“Giving handouts to students is lazy approach teaching, it’s not the best,” He told Kwame Tanko host of the show on Angel FM monitored by MyNewsGh.com’s Syxtus Eshun.

Mr. Stevens Siaka who is also the Member of Parliament(MP) for Jaman-North Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region said this while responding to allegations made by the student body of Teacher Trainee colleges that, school authorities are charging unauthorized fees which have become unbearable.

Selling of these handouts in Ghana has become a norm and almost all lecturers of various tertiary institutions across the country are guilty of.

Most students complain some lecturers fail them in their end of semester examination when they are not able to purchase the prepared handouts or lecture notes of their course lecturers.

But speaking in an interview with Kumasi based Angel Fm Hon. Siaka explained, “though every tertiary institution has its own circumstances, selling of handouts is not acceptable”.

“I have heard that lecturer sell handout to students and before you can pass your exam you have to pay for, it’s not like that. Lecturers are not supposed to give handouts to students for sale”. He warned.

“In every institution, we don’t give out handouts; you lecture for the student to make his or her own research to acquire more findings to know other relating materials to be able to understand. But when you provide the handout, the student is no more going to do further research, hence limiting his or her ability to learn. This brings the matter of “chew and poor” and that is exactly what we want to avoid”.