40 percent of parents pay bribes for education in Ghana - GII

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Kojo T 12 years ago

It is a cancer that stiffles everything

It is a cancer that stiffles everything
Kay 12 years ago

Why is there corruption everywhere, officially sanctioned by him. Look at rLG, his brother Ibrahim squeezing everyone in sight, and his Chinese partners. What is wasted President!

Why is there corruption everywhere, officially sanctioned by him. Look at rLG, his brother Ibrahim squeezing everyone in sight, and his Chinese partners. What is wasted President!
Kojo T 12 years ago

K4 was Ali babaa & 40 thieves. So please get off politics and do something else

K4 was Ali babaa & 40 thieves. So please get off politics and do something else
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Nicholas J Bedzo 12 years ago

Corruption means geting extra money to
your salary to spend,because your own Salary is too small,for example the
Police and other workers,extra money
to get properties or for cool leaving.
because of that it becme sicknes ...
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Corruption means geting extra money to
your salary to spend,because your own Salary is too small,for example the
Police and other workers,extra money
to get properties or for cool leaving.
because of that it becme sickness
spreding like Cancer.
wofa 12 years ago

Eh Ghana, corruption here corruption there, ye beye yiene? Are we going to do well or develop? When U have corrupt Gov't in place that is what happens

Eh Ghana, corruption here corruption there, ye beye yiene? Are we going to do well or develop? When U have corrupt Gov't in place that is what happens
krikri 12 years ago

Can GII mention any one institution in Ghana that BRIBES are not paid before services are rendered? Even the Ghana Law School. What is happening there is disgraceful

Can GII mention any one institution in Ghana that BRIBES are not paid before services are rendered? Even the Ghana Law School. What is happening there is disgraceful
princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

Teacher: “Johnny, what is the outside of a tree called?” Johnny: “I don’t know.” Teacher: “Bark, Johnny, bark.” Johnny: “Bow, wow, wow!”

JOHNNY IS CONFUSED ABOUT THE BRIBE THE TEACHER IS TAKING THAT HE CA ...
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Teacher: “Johnny, what is the outside of a tree called?” Johnny: “I don’t know.” Teacher: “Bark, Johnny, bark.” Johnny: “Bow, wow, wow!”

JOHNNY IS CONFUSED ABOUT THE BRIBE THE TEACHER IS TAKING THAT HE CANNOT TELL THE DIFFERENCE OF A BARK OF A TREE AND A DOG BARKING.
PAT 12 years ago

NO CONSCIENCE IN GHANAIAN POLITICIANS ESPECIALLY THE NDC WHICH CALLOUSLY CREATED LOOTED AND SHARED OUR MONEY....ide biiiii keke...

NO CONSCIENCE IN GHANAIAN POLITICIANS ESPECIALLY THE NDC WHICH CALLOUSLY CREATED LOOTED AND SHARED OUR MONEY....ide biiiii keke...
PRESIDENT HIMSELF IS CORRUPT 12 years ago

IS GHANA MORE CORRUPT THAN NIGERIA ?

IS GHANA MORE CORRUPT THAN NIGERIA ?

GHANA IS !!!!!! 12 years ago

EVERYONE IN GHANA IS CORRUPT.FROM THE COMMON LABOURER TO THE PRESIDENT

EVERYONE IN GHANA IS CORRUPT.FROM THE COMMON LABOURER TO THE PRESIDENT
Philips 12 years ago

Of all the educational institutions in Ghana, The Nursing Training Colleges are the most corrupt. Ask the nursing students and they will tell you, eg bribe is paid before admission. The authorities should turn their eyes on t ...
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Of all the educational institutions in Ghana, The Nursing Training Colleges are the most corrupt. Ask the nursing students and they will tell you, eg bribe is paid before admission. The authorities should turn their eyes on them.
gretchy 12 years ago

absolutely correct!!!my fiance did not receive her salary until 2months later.the payment of salary to those hard working nurses are a bloody shambles.Ghanaians must do something about voicing their concerns to human rights c ...
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absolutely correct!!!my fiance did not receive her salary until 2months later.the payment of salary to those hard working nurses are a bloody shambles.Ghanaians must do something about voicing their concerns to human rights commission.hahaha maybe they are corrupt too
Kofi Asdiedu 12 years ago

only seven people giving comments with such an important issue but go to football artcles and you have lots of comments from all sorts of people. We have a long way to wise up to help develop our nation. It seems we worship f ...
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only seven people giving comments with such an important issue but go to football artcles and you have lots of comments from all sorts of people. We have a long way to wise up to help develop our nation. It seems we worship football even more than god and that not to say i'm a believer far from that.
km agyin 12 years ago

The main cause of corruption in the education system is the sheer number of students chasing the very few university places that are available. I have always maintained that it is time we shift our emphasis on tertiary educat ...
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The main cause of corruption in the education system is the sheer number of students chasing the very few university places that are available. I have always maintained that it is time we shift our emphasis on tertiary education. We have enough second cycle schools now, let us expand the existing universities to take more students in the short term before we think of putting up new ones. Let the decisions of our leaders be guided by the larger national interest rather than personal egos. We can alongside this expansion upgrade some polytechnics to offer degree courses. Any country which thinks they can get there without investing in high caliber manpower is dreaming. Our human resource is the best resource we have.
Yab Yab 12 years ago

all that is required to expand tertiary institutions is to erect regional campuses for some of the universities. University of Ghana need not be situated in Accra but could have branch campuses elsewhere in the nation like th ...
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all that is required to expand tertiary institutions is to erect regional campuses for some of the universities. University of Ghana need not be situated in Accra but could have branch campuses elsewhere in the nation like the university of alabama in the US.
CHARCOAL SELLER. 12 years ago

Capitalism is the bane of Africa's woes!

Capitalism is the bane of Africa's woes!
DANNY 12 years ago

MEDICAL SCHOOLS ARE THE WORST IN THIS COUNTRY. VERY CORRUPT

MEDICAL SCHOOLS ARE THE WORST IN THIS COUNTRY. VERY CORRUPT
DR QUADRATIC 12 years ago

the very people who should enforce the law and/or such recommendations are those who are involved. They end up taking wrong people with bribes and the results are very deadly. Even in the medical schools you have a dean,VC an ...
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the very people who should enforce the law and/or such recommendations are those who are involved. They end up taking wrong people with bribes and the results are very deadly. Even in the medical schools you have a dean,VC and registrar scratching each other's back and admitting unqualified students agains better students just for the money.Go to Kintampo College of Health and u will vomit hell. the heads are rich and they want more.it is greed!!!
OMANBA 12 years ago

Bursars,domestic bursars and headmistresses/headmasters are always colluding to steal their school funds.How can some of these people build houses and drive in expensive cars?Corruption in senior high schools is especially ma ...
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Bursars,domestic bursars and headmistresses/headmasters are always colluding to steal their school funds.How can some of these people build houses and drive in expensive cars?Corruption in senior high schools is especially mammoth.

j gian 12 years ago

40% is small, ndc has spoilt everything in terms of education

40% is small, ndc has spoilt everything in terms of education
nsem pii 12 years ago

You have no idea Ghana produces the finest honest brains when it comes to academic performance oversea. Cheating to get ahead not Ghana style.Honest TRUTH.

You have no idea Ghana produces the finest honest brains when it comes to academic performance oversea. Cheating to get ahead not Ghana style.Honest TRUTH.
yes I said it...on the real! 12 years ago

wealth-building principles via combining the internet with global networking via social media sites.

Corruption in schools keep a nation inferior within global rankings educationally.

Ghana needs THINKERS not CHEATERS!

wealth-building principles via combining the internet with global networking via social media sites.

Corruption in schools keep a nation inferior within global rankings educationally.

Ghana needs THINKERS not CHEATERS!
SHAKARA 12 years ago

CORRUPTION IS EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY.
HOSPITALS, MINISTRIES ETC. THE WORST IS THE HOSPITAL WHERE PATIENTS HAVE TO GREASE THE PALMS OF CLERKS IN ORDER TO RECEIVE CARE. THOSE WHO CANNOT GIVE BRIBE
GO HOME WITHOUT RECEIVING ...
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CORRUPTION IS EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY.
HOSPITALS, MINISTRIES ETC. THE WORST IS THE HOSPITAL WHERE PATIENTS HAVE TO GREASE THE PALMS OF CLERKS IN ORDER TO RECEIVE CARE. THOSE WHO CANNOT GIVE BRIBE
GO HOME WITHOUT RECEIVING MUCH-NEEDED CARE.THIS IS FRAUD AND MUST BE DISCOURAGED.
Abeeku Mensah 12 years ago

It will take one and only one thing to get where we need to be with Ghana's education system; taxation. Anyone who believes otherwise is living in lala land. Education system in civilized Western nations, including those who ...
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It will take one and only one thing to get where we need to be with Ghana's education system; taxation. Anyone who believes otherwise is living in lala land. Education system in civilized Western nations, including those who like the UK and or Ireland system, or the North American system is funded through taxation.
In Ghana there are those uneducated, under educated, the less travelled and less read who allow politicians to feed them nonsense about some free education without cost to society. When owners of every property in Ghana worth taxing can and is identified, every property appraised and equitable tax levied on these structures just for education, Ghana's school structures and infrastructure will be adequately funded. We may just have to fight to ensure those revenues are placed in the care/trusted with honest, virtuous and moral Ghanaians. There is no country anywhere in God's earth where education comes free; someone pays and pays dearly for education in the civilized world where education is a priority.
We have a Ghanaian society where the rich can pretend things will get better if education is free knowing darn well education can never be truly free and thus allowing or relieving them of human guilt to send their wards to privately well managed schools while children of the majority poor foot soldiers and political party idiotic followers to languish in run down structures and or under trees. We need to wake up in Ghana and stop allowing tribal and party politicking fools to lead us by the nose to our own downfall. Our forefathers and mothers were not all college educated but they fought and gave us the opportunity to go to school; they did not acquiesce to the notion that education is reserved for the children of the rich and politically connected.
TITUS TAY 12 years ago

Corruption in a educational sector is like an infectious disease which is spreading like a bushfire in a harmatan season. Imagine a training college of education or a nursing training which is supposed to admit about 300 stu ...
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Corruption in a educational sector is like an infectious disease which is spreading like a bushfire in a harmatan season. Imagine a training college of education or a nursing training which is supposed to admit about 300 students will be selling about 1,500 application forms the applicants. In such a situation, what do you think will happen? Just visit the teacher training colleges of education to see for yourself the calibre of students being admitted into the various institutions. Most of them could not make or write any meaningful sentence because their "palm kernels" were cracked for them by teachers whose consciences were bought because WAEC make so much money and VEHEMENTLY REFUSE to pay the "WATCHMEN" who do the invigilation. CORRUPTION GALORE and that is why some teachers can collect money from some students and help them do the wrong thing with impunity.
Joe Turkey 12 years ago

... and 99.99% pay to politicians

... and 99.99% pay to politicians
ras 12 years ago

corruption starts from the home through the action of parents.

corruption starts from the home through the action of parents.
ebo 12 years ago

no bribe no admission

no bribe no admission
Ka Nawu 12 years ago

I know students who paid almost 20,000 cedis for admission in a school.which is so ashame to our system

I know students who paid almost 20,000 cedis for admission in a school.which is so ashame to our system

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