Prof Esi Awuah calls for a shift from grades-oriented curricula

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• AGBESI KWESI 8 years ago

  It is not true that university graduates are functional in all areas. This is a very wrong idea university lecturers have used to pollute the minds of students and the general public. Look, it appears that education in Ghana ...
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  It is not true that university graduates are functional in all areas. This is a very wrong idea university lecturers have used to pollute the minds of students and the general public. Look, it appears that education in Ghana is not meant to empower the youth for good deeds but just a means to seek white-colour jobs. Elsewhere it is not so. I once worked with a Ghanaian agriculturist, trained in Romania, as teachers in a secondary school. This man was teaching General Agric, Horticulture and Animal Husbandry whiles I handled Maths, Gen Science and Farm Mechanization. This man was so good at his area that I asked him why he is different from his counterparts trained in Ghana. It was after my inquiry the man told me that in Romania, to be an agriculturist, you need to be trained in both the theoretical and practical aspects of the programme. The practical aspects include plowing, shooting, swimming, how to set traps for different rodents that destroy crops, how to dismantle the engine of a tractor and fix it , basic animal surgery, how to construct silos and other storage facilities, etc. When he was posted to teach at the secondary school, he really inspired his students with his practical know-how. What even baffled me in that school was that the school was having survey instruments like the chain, theodolite, ranging poles, prismatic compasses, etc, yet the geography tutor, who was a graduate teacher from the University of Ghana could not use them - even though the geography syllabus at the SSCE level demanded that students should learn how to use them. I had to teach them the use of those instruments although I am not a university graduate. So you see how our intellectuals are misleading the youth.

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• Ray Parker 8 years ago

  Ei Madam Professor! You mean all those plenty disciplines at the Universities should be reduced to community work? Who will be marking the students? Where will the community work be taking place? Doctors, engineers, geologist ...
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  Ei Madam Professor! You mean all those plenty disciplines at the Universities should be reduced to community work? Who will be marking the students? Where will the community work be taking place? Doctors, engineers, geologists computer scientists etc will all do the community work to get their certificates? Hmmmmm

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• Jehu 8 years ago

  This Professor did not think through properly what she said

  This Professor did not think through properly what she said

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• God son 8 years ago

  good advice
  thanks u madam

  good advice
  thanks u madam

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