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The Foreign Degree Myth: Why Ghana's politicians chase Western credentials

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  • Mensahoo988 2 months ago

    Crap!

  • TRUTH 2 months ago

    Great article. Most of these foreign degree holders don't reflect the skills and problem solving abilities of their qualifications.


    Oh, I forgot they do, they are the ones always suggesting foreign investment, foreign i ...
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  • Kanawu 2 months ago

    The go to western lands for degrees yet criticize western governments.
    Why don't they go to China or Russia for their degrees?

    Deep down they know the west is superior

  • Truth 2 months ago

    China goes to the west for degrees. Do they think the west is superior?

    Show me where this article spoke about superiority?

    Ghanaians and offside points, it is like water and oil intelligence.

  • ST Ghfuo: CANADIANS ARE BIASED, DISHONEST 2 months ago

    they dont implement what they learnt overseas when they return to ghana. but their colleagues in the west apply what they learnt to make their western economies better. thats the difference

  • Truth 2 months ago

    Most of what they learn is not applicable to Ghana.

  • Truth 2 months ago

    are not

  • Nii Akwei 2 months ago

    Please, educate me about what you wrote

  • Nii Akwei 2 months ago

    Have you heard the phrase If you can not win, join them?.

  • KWABENA KASAPREKO. 2 months ago

    IT IS VERY EASY TO OBTAIN WESTERN UNIVERSITY DEGREES. ONE CAN EVEN WRITE A FINAL EXAMINATION WITH "OPEN TEXT BOOK" ON THE SUBJECT THAT ONE IS WRITING HIS/HER EXAMINATION. HENCE, MOST TIMES, ONE'S ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION FROM ...
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  • Professor 2 months ago

    It is a provable fact that Western universities have higher standards and better-quality teaching than nearly all Ghanaian institutions. We should hope that our lawmakers are well-educated and worldly, not insular grievance-m ...
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  • NADAA2 2 months ago

    NKONTOMPO be dat.....

    You mean Harvard, Yale and dem dem are inferior to Legon, Fiapre and Ashesi....?
    Massa, ...We are striving......BUT we haven't reached their standard yet.

  • Pelicles. 2 months ago

    After getting those "Western Degrees" do they apply them in Ghana to better the nation? What they do is crafty stealing, and they wish they can empty the treasury with those "Western Degrees".

  • H Aborbi 2 months ago

    Mr Sarfo, your opinion piece does not show any solid data to prove the point you're making. I want to see, say, information for the last couple of years on MPs and where they obtained their degree instead of your assertions. ...
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  • Truth Table 2 months ago

    “Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. , .
    Isaiah 45:22 ---

  • Listowel 2 months ago

    An insightful article. Come to think of it, since the 4th republican, it's probably only Rawlings and Aliu Mahama as fmr president and vice respectively who never gained foreign degrees.

    The writer's point I guess: bunch o ...
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