Education Ministry clarifies language of instruction policy for basic schools

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GOLDEN 1 day ago

THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN GHANA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY GOOD,WITH IMPORTANT
SUBJECTS LIKE MATHEMATICS,SCIENCE,IE CHEMISTRY,BIOLOGY,PHYSICS,OUR LOCAL LANGUAGES AS WELL AS ENGLISH,BEING THE COMPULSERY SUBJECTS,RELIGION AND HISTORY ...
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THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN GHANA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY GOOD,WITH IMPORTANT
SUBJECTS LIKE MATHEMATICS,SCIENCE,IE CHEMISTRY,BIOLOGY,PHYSICS,OUR LOCAL LANGUAGES AS WELL AS ENGLISH,BEING THE COMPULSERY SUBJECTS,RELIGION AND HISTORY ARE ALSO VERY IMPORTANT,THERE SHOULD BE MORE BOOKS IN OUR LOCAL LANGUAGES,BOOKS ABOUT OUR RICH CULTURAL HERITAGE,HISTORY BOOKS OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF OUR PEOPLE.THE ORIGINAL ISRAELITES IN THE HOLY BIBLE WERE BLACKS,LEARNING OUR LOCAL LANGUAGES IS MORE IMPORTANT,TO KEEP US UNITED!!
FRANKIE 1 day ago

What does the minister mean by "LOCAL LANGUAGE"? How will Arabic contribute to national development? There are numerous local languages and I wonder which one teachers will/can use in teaching in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi etc. ...
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What does the minister mean by "LOCAL LANGUAGE"? How will Arabic contribute to national development? There are numerous local languages and I wonder which one teachers will/can use in teaching in Accra, Kumasi, Takoradi etc. I have always believed that we should focus on English language as it has the technicality and versatility to drive our development and international opportunities for our citizens. It will also unify us and break the back of tribalism. That is why it is a prerequisite for any higher level of education. French yes, Chinese so so but Arabic? NO NO NO!
Please save me my fellow Ghanaians,i'm a 28 years old Ghanaian lady that was scammed by some Nigerians, i'm currently serving a 2 years jail term in a Nigerian prison,i can be reached on WhatsApp via +2348140725576 to explain what happened 1 day ago

it all started few years ago when i received a Facebook message that a travel agency in Lagos Nigeria was recruiting Ghanaians and Nigerians for jobs in Canada, i sold everything i had and borrowed money from a lot of people ...
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it all started few years ago when i received a Facebook message that a travel agency in Lagos Nigeria was recruiting Ghanaians and Nigerians for jobs in Canada, i sold everything i had and borrowed money from a lot of people and kept sending them money for the travel to Canada, when i ran out of money to send to them, they invited me to Lagos that my visa is ready, when i got to Lagos they took the remaining money i had on me and took my phone and refused to give me my passport that i posted to them earlier from Ghana, i was left stranded and was sleeping under a bridge with some other homeless people and was begging people during the day for help to go back to Ghana, police raided the place i was squatting after some days and arrested everybody there, they took us to court because hard drugs and guns were found on some prostitutes and thugs squatting there, i was sentenced to 2 years in prison because i had nobody and lawyer to defend me, i will finish serving my sentence in 3 months time and deported to Ghana, my fellow Ghanaians please i need help of 12,000 Naira, which is around 100 Ghana cedis so i can eat and treat myself, i have been sick and i have not eaten good food for sometime now, i don't want to die now my freedom date is near, no amount is too small to help me with, i will appreciate any amount sent to me and God will bless and reward the sender abundantly, i can work for the sender when i return to Ghana in 3 months time to pay back, we manage to use smuggled phones here to beg people through Facebook and other social media platforms, this is how most prisoners here survive because we are very desperate, the situation here is so terrible, horrible and pathetic, infact we are in hellfire here, people die everyday here from starvation and minor illnesses like malaria and ulcer, please i need help urgently, i need to eat good food and buy malaria drugs to treat myself, the food they give us here is small portions of watery beans and jollof rice that can't satisfy a child, when an inmate is sick here and doesn't have money to buy medication, the prison warders will ignore you until you die or recover without taken medication, they may only give you paracetamol and antibiotics if you cry too much, but if you have money, the prison warders can buy for you good food and medicines from outside, i can be reached on WhatsApp via +2348140725576, this is my cellmate's number, some warders smuggle in phone for people here if you bribe them, i don't have a phone, when you chat, tell her you want to chat with Sandra so she can give the phone to me, please help make my story go viral so i can get help by posting my story and my cellmate's WhatsApp number: +2348140725576 on Facebook and WhatsApp groups, please i need help, i'm suffering a lot here.

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Great God. 1 day ago

If you don't have money to travel why do you borrow, and also you have to know that this Nigerians are dangerous why do you believe them and follow them to their 419 . they are dangerous to the world.serve the jailed term for ...
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If you don't have money to travel why do you borrow, and also you have to know that this Nigerians are dangerous why do you believe them and follow them to their 419 . they are dangerous to the world.serve the jailed term for next time..
Ayim 1 day ago

Good job the ministry of education for this initiative. It’s in the right direction. The foundation of education is important.

Good job the ministry of education for this initiative. It’s in the right direction. The foundation of education is important.
AKABENEZER 1 day ago

Ghanaians learn their local laguages at home from their families. Focus on ABC and English language. No Ghanaian want to be forced to learn a different tribal language.

Ghanaians learn their local laguages at home from their families. Focus on ABC and English language. No Ghanaian want to be forced to learn a different tribal language.
Test2 1 day ago

HOW CAN A COMMON MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT WHO HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO DEVELOP HIS OWN DUSTY MUD HOUSES COWS WITH HUMANS DRINKING FROM THE SAME POLLUTED RIVERS SUDDENLY BECOMES EXPERTISE IN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM TELLING US WHAT LANGUA ...
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HOW CAN A COMMON MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT WHO HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO DEVELOP HIS OWN DUSTY MUD HOUSES COWS WITH HUMANS DRINKING FROM THE SAME POLLUTED RIVERS SUDDENLY BECOMES EXPERTISE IN OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM TELLING US WHAT LANGUAGES OUR CHILDREN SHOULD SPEAK FROM KINDERGARTEN
IS THAT WHAT GHANAIANS VOTED FOR? DONT WE HAVE OUR OWN GOD GIVE DIALECTS WHEN EVERY CHILD SPEAKS BEFORE KINDERGARTEN.? BEFORE WE ALL LEARN THE UNIVERSAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE?
PROMOTING ARABIC LANGUAGE FOR WHAT PURPOSE
THESE STOMACH AND TRIBAL POLITICIANS IN GHANA HAVE DONE THE COUNTRY VERY BAD
NOW LOOK AT HOW THE YOUTH ARE SUFFERING FROM NORTH TO SOUTH NO DECENT JOBS FRUSTRATION AND HOPELESSNESS THATS WHY THEY HAVE TURN TO DRUG ADDICTION TO FORGET THE DUFFERING AND THEIR BLINK FUTURES
AKABENEZER 1 day ago

The irony of your stupidity is you wrote this nonsense in English. If you could, and had written this in your local dialet most of us would have skipped over it without understanding everything you wrote.

The irony of your stupidity is you wrote this nonsense in English. If you could, and had written this in your local dialet most of us would have skipped over it without understanding everything you wrote.
Osei 1 day ago

Ow say that again. Nkwaseasem saaa why

Ow say that again. Nkwaseasem saaa why
Pelicles 1 day ago

Keep the teaching of Arabic from our schools. Commonsense says that respect is earned and if one does not respect you, there is no need respect that person. Arabs are mostly mean-spirited humans who sees Africans as sub-human ...
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Keep the teaching of Arabic from our schools. Commonsense says that respect is earned and if one does not respect you, there is no need respect that person. Arabs are mostly mean-spirited humans who sees Africans as sub-humans, and any reason we should learn their language?

Learning our local languages and English is enough. There is no need to burden the children with something that doesn't make sense.

J-Tec 1 day ago

A very useless policy. Instead of introducing skills development and entrepreneurship you are talking of languages.
Give the kids toy engines, cooking utensils, balls,toy computers, building, fabrication and carpentry tools, ...
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A very useless policy. Instead of introducing skills development and entrepreneurship you are talking of languages.
Give the kids toy engines, cooking utensils, balls,toy computers, building, fabrication and carpentry tools, etc to discover and develop their talents.
Kweku 1 day ago

What is the purpose of teaching Arabic in Ghana when we are surrounded by French speaking countries?

What is the purpose of teaching Arabic in Ghana when we are surrounded by French speaking countries?
Prudhomme - Ghanaians are unintelligent 1 day ago

How are local languages going to strengthen critical thinking, as claimed by the ministry?

How are local languages going to strengthen critical thinking, as claimed by the ministry?
Korbla 1 day ago

It is based on international research. Besides that our local languages seem to be vanishing

It is based on international research. Besides that our local languages seem to be vanishing
Gyimii 1 day ago

What international research

What international research
Chiga 1 day ago

for a minister whose constituents are 90% from deprived areas i wondering how optional classes will work in his area and how many french, arabic and chinese teachers they have trained to offer these courses.

for a minister whose constituents are 90% from deprived areas i wondering how optional classes will work in his area and how many french, arabic and chinese teachers they have trained to offer these courses.
Shalom 1 day ago

So why Arabic and Chinese inclusion????
We expect that as we look forward into the future with the hope having a United Africa, one or two African languages should rather be considered such as Swahili or Hausa. How relevant ...
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So why Arabic and Chinese inclusion????
We expect that as we look forward into the future with the hope having a United Africa, one or two African languages should rather be considered such as Swahili or Hausa. How relevant are Arabic and Chinese in the future of African Unity ?
SO WHY ARABIC AND CHINESE INCLUSION???
Ericus 1 day ago

I think they chose these two because of the business opportunities,economic ties between Ghana and the Arab countries and china. So we can't say the ministry is wrong for adding the arabic and Chinese. There are a lot of job ...
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I think they chose these two because of the business opportunities,economic ties between Ghana and the Arab countries and china. So we can't say the ministry is wrong for adding the arabic and Chinese. There are a lot of job opportunities in these two countries but these countries don't use or speak the English more like the uk,USA and the English speaking countries. This affect us (Ghanaian) who travele or who want to work in these Arabian places and china. Let's critically think about why there is a lot of Chinese pupils in Ghana learning our local languages especially the twi language? One more thing is that we already have some of our universities in Ghana here that offers the arabic and Chinese languages and is not everyone that will get the resources or money to go to the university study so if these languages are brought down to the basic schools and senior high schools does it not help the thousands of pupil or Ghanaians parents who want their children to learn this languages so that in the future if opportunities come out or come in their way from china or the Arabian countries, the languages will not be a barrier for them. Even this languages will not be compulsory in the schools but the schools that have the resources to teach .
Osei 1 day ago

Gyimifo, focus on AI and STEM not some languages. All of you are ministers, gyimii saa why

Gyimifo, focus on AI and STEM not some languages. All of you are ministers, gyimii saa why
Fireman 1 day ago

This man needs to step aside. He is not the right man with the right mindset for the job, seriously

This man needs to step aside. He is not the right man with the right mindset for the job, seriously

Rash 1 day ago

Go and tell ur father that

Go and tell ur father that
Great God. 1 day ago

Minister I do not agree with you by teaching Chinese language in our country Ghana and also Arabic, do they the Arabic people teaches Ghana language in their country.why do we fools ourselves to the foreign country's,we shoul ...
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Minister I do not agree with you by teaching Chinese language in our country Ghana and also Arabic, do they the Arabic people teaches Ghana language in their country.why do we fools ourselves to the foreign country's,we should learn our language like the before.
Okatakyie 1 day ago

Backward!

Backward!
Coach 1 day ago

Good policy begins with good evidence—but succeeds through good implementation. Have we fully addressed teacher capacity, pedagogy and lessons from NALAP for Ghanaian languages before broadening our language agenda?

Good policy begins with good evidence—but succeeds through good implementation. Have we fully addressed teacher capacity, pedagogy and lessons from NALAP for Ghanaian languages before broadening our language agenda?
Kwaku 1 day ago

What is 'a familiar' language? This is the elephant in the room? Similar to what happens in govt offices, some teachers in govt schools teach in the main ethnic language of their choice to children who are totally ignorant of ...
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What is 'a familiar' language? This is the elephant in the room? Similar to what happens in govt offices, some teachers in govt schools teach in the main ethnic language of their choice to children who are totally ignorant of the languages..Example teaching Akan to Ga village children. Or ewe to akan children..Please cut down the size of this problem by replacing Akan with Akwapim Twi in basic schools.
Kofi 1 day ago

What local language? A lot of families are posted to areas where the local language is different from their own (health workers, teachers, bank employees and so on). So how would their children be helped to learn on a local l ...
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What local language? A lot of families are posted to areas where the local language is different from their own (health workers, teachers, bank employees and so on). So how would their children be helped to learn on a local language different from their own? They are rather going to be disadvantaged.
FK 1 day ago

The fact something is internationally accepted does it make it right for you, where you able to test and prove your decision!! Or it was just based on “internationally accepted “?

The fact something is internationally accepted does it make it right for you, where you able to test and prove your decision!! Or it was just based on “internationally accepted “?
Sexy Sexy 20 hours ago

This policy, if implemented, will make teaching difficult. The language a teacher speaks may differ from what the students understand. For example, I am a teacher of Ga descent from Accra, and the only local language I unders ...
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This policy, if implemented, will make teaching difficult. The language a teacher speaks may differ from what the students understand. For example, I am a teacher of Ga descent from Accra, and the only local language I understand is Ga. If I am posted to Bimbila to teach, I will not be able to communicate with my students during lessons. This policy does not seem to have been properly thought through.

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