Whither University and Tertiary Education in Ghana?

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O. Bosompra-Gyeabuor 12 years ago

This article is the kind of discourse we should engage ourselves in. If we spend more time on critical analyses of issues affecting our nation and our own personal and intellectual development, and less time , very minimal, o ...
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This article is the kind of discourse we should engage ourselves in. If we spend more time on critical analyses of issues affecting our nation and our own personal and intellectual development, and less time , very minimal, on mundane stupefying and simple-minded stuff, our dear nation and the world would be a better place.

That our educational standards have fallen and our children are receiving substandard and very inferior education and are not encouraged to acquire knowledge for the betterment of human kind is an irrefutable fact.

The University of Chicago has a very appropriate and telling motto, "Crescat scientia Vita Excolatur" (Let knowledge grow so life may be enhanced). Education and knowledge as such have utility value, and the value is measured in the quality of life indices. In this light our universities and even for those of us who have been educated outside in some of the great universities, have failed our nation and our race. In the case of our universities, it is absolutely apropos to apportion blame to both the university administrations, and the national government. When the national government looks upon the universities as turfs for political power play and extensions of their delusional bigoted power, they reduce the universities to nothing other than an organ of the political party in power. When a government has too much control and say in the running of a university, you end up with an empty shell, mere endoskeletal structures, emaciated and disemboweled.

And the university dons and administrators have also played their roles in reducing our universities from top rate world class universities as late as the early seventies to nothing but upgraded secondary schools and polytechnics.

"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight and critically", this quote attributable to a University of Chicago President, Robert M. Hutchins, is missing on our universities.

Irrespective of the field of study, every university education must establish as a major prerequisite, Foundations of Logic and Mathematics, Rhetoric, Literature, History and Classics, Philosophy ( taught as a unified humanities module so students can have critical angles of all these aspects on any single topic)and a natural science, preferably Physics. The first two years can be used up by these and the last two and graduate work in a professional field or any discipline that would be in line with the University of Chicago motto I have quoted earlier.

And for the sake of our nation and the world, all our universities must provide the kind of education that also stresses the virtues - free inquiry, scholarly honesty,civility in discourse, toleration of diverse beliefs and values, trust in rationality and public verifiability, and yes, speaking to the POWER of truth, "VERITAS", and an undying passion for the common good. This is indeed "the idea of the university".

Creating more universities has done nothing good for the nation. All that it has done is produce pseudo-intellectuals and quasi-literates. The moment the nation descended into JSS and SSS and eliminated the old secondary school system with the sixth form, the nation should have realized where we were heading. There were more sensible ways to reform the educational structure by cutting the years from Class One to beginning university to 12 and still maintained high quality and rigorous education. All we had to do was to strengthen the curriculum to primary six and staff it with highly trained and expert teachers to teach the fundamentals of language, mathematics, creativity and reasoning.

Finally our nation must realized that, "To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus". Yes we are producing graduates in large numbers but are they really of graduate material?
Kobena 12 years ago

Bosompra-Gyeabuor,
You and Paa Kwesi Mintah have made very important contributions to Kwesi's article, Paa Kwesi from his own very unique angle.

A little while ago, one of the lecturers at Legon lamented that a First Cla ...
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Bosompra-Gyeabuor,
You and Paa Kwesi Mintah have made very important contributions to Kwesi's article, Paa Kwesi from his own very unique angle.

A little while ago, one of the lecturers at Legon lamented that a First Class degree in our universities these days is only slightly higher than a Second Class Lower degree of the 1970s, and he was right.

The original JSS-SSS system as mooted by the PP government in the late 1960s was designed to cut down the number of years we spent at the pre-university level and make it more relevant to societal needs, with emphasis on vocational/technical education. Those who showed early signs of being able to use their hands and brains (Mente et-Manu, sorry Bro PK for the Latin), were to be guided towards the polytechnics/vocational institutions, to help develop the middle level manpower needs of the country.

Unfortunately, those who eventually implemented the system were more interested in "change of uniforms, so everyone would look the same", while their wives secured the contracts to supply American Khaki for profit. They didn't even bother about the fact that teachers were to be re-trained to equip them to teach what were essentially secondary school subjects taught by graduates and 'diplomates', as obtained in the secondary schools in the 1960s and 70s.

The few second rate carpentry tools that were brought in from China were all collected from the village schools after a few weeks and sold to wayside carpenters and mechanics.

There are numerous research projects that have gathered dust in the universities (particularly KNUST) from the 1970s that should have set Ghana on the path to proper industrilisation through appropriate technology. These never saw the light of day because successive governments did not show interest and the universities themselves were not innovative enough to implement research findings even on a small scale basis.

We need to discuss the issues such as Kwesi has raised here, to ensure the establishment of at least one proper technical college that will produce the useable skills that Ghana desperately needs today!
O. Bosompra-Gyeabuor 12 years ago

Thanks Kobena, yours is equally illuminating.We need to keep this dialogue on Education, Ghana's development and the Idea of the University alive because so much is at stake. The issue is not necessarily vocational training a ...
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Thanks Kobena, yours is equally illuminating.We need to keep this dialogue on Education, Ghana's development and the Idea of the University alive because so much is at stake. The issue is not necessarily vocational training as technical fields but rather an education that equip us to be thinkers and problem solvers. At Stanford we are told that we may not be able to solve every problem handed us on our first few days on the job but we will have an idea about solving it and eventually create and solve any problems as they come. The emphasis on the education is on critical thinking, reasoning, precise use of language, creativity and problem solving. That is in fact what our education and universities must emulate.
LUKE ISAAC ATUGEBA 12 years ago

you ve just hit the nail on head. our tertiary edu. of late is very abysmal

you ve just hit the nail on head. our tertiary edu. of late is very abysmal
Ghanatta Ayaric 12 years ago

Insightful! Kwesi Atta, you don't just lament as most Ghanaians do when it comes to important national issues and treat them as unimportant. You make concrete recommendations on how Ghana can make education function as the th ...
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Insightful! Kwesi Atta, you don't just lament as most Ghanaians do when it comes to important national issues and treat them as unimportant. You make concrete recommendations on how Ghana can make education function as the the most powerful tool in development that it is!We are heading for even more mediocrity in our development efforts if we tend to focus (as the case is today)more on the high-sounding title in the qualification itself than on its demands: constant updating through wide reading and research of the knowledge acquired, critical thinking, analysis and emphasis on its practical relevance among others!Without these aspects, an MA, MBA or a PHD title is a "broken-winged bird that cannot fly" (Langston Hughes)and falls short of the rigid requirements of the increasingly knowledge-based world of the 21st Century!
eoa-uk 12 years ago

I stand to support your analysis of tertiary education and its role in the individuals and national development. Good work, well done.

I stand to support your analysis of tertiary education and its role in the individuals and national development. Good work, well done.
Paa Kwesi Mintah 12 years ago

Cousin, greetings of the highest order from our relatives in the horseback district, where I'm always greeted with the best soup to boil in a cauldron, featuring all the crabs and fishes of our shoreline.

Although you've b ...
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Cousin, greetings of the highest order from our relatives in the horseback district, where I'm always greeted with the best soup to boil in a cauldron, featuring all the crabs and fishes of our shoreline.

Although you've been in the education arena for over 40yrs as a teacher at various levels, your observations are so wrong I can't wait to pour cold water on it. So get a front seat and watch me do it.

Your idea of what a "University" is and represents is very archaic indeed. You view the university institution in elitist terms. In medieval times, schooling took place in the exclusive chambers of the Kings court and peasant in possession of a parchment and writing materials was considered a thief. The monastery became the arena tasked to produced scripts and all the codex we know today.

It really is outrageous and irksome for you to write:

"Universities attract the best brains or crème de la crème of society, so that these people can put their talents to good use to benefit society."

You know that is not true, if you've ever had the opportunity to experience the type of education offered abroad. (Not Africa).

The egalitarian access to university education is based on the principle that one will be transformed into an enlightened scholar in all the artistic and scientific philosophies.

Society in general doesn't look up to universities to solve problems but rather products of universities to solve problems.

There's this inordinate emphasis on academic degree acquisition in Ghana, when those with we know those with academic letters produce next to nothing for the national pie. They rather take away or consume the pie without any effort to produce.

Ghana needs to invest in vocational training where young people can acquire skills in welding, electrician apprentice, plumbing, brick laying, carpentry and masonry. Cousin, I'm sure you know the current lads in Winneba lack the canoe and paddle fishing skills of our forefathers, They can't catch a minnow without pre-mix fuel these days.

You should also know that 90% of students on the university academic track cannot string a sentence together. They rather think a "sentence" is a court judgment. Have you ever attempted reading some of the articles submitted to Ghanaweb from some these graduates? It's real embarrassing, to say the least.

All those private universities should be converted to carpentry and welding shops to train the students. University education is overrated in Ghana and presents a false sense of achievement. The government of Ghana should convert one of the universities into a vocational training institution where one can gain welding, plumbing, carpentry and masonry skills.

As usual your article couldn't spare us your ad hominem forays into Latin quotations, biblical quotes and even Cinderella fairy tale. Haba, cousin. You tried hard to avoid your usual Listology but you presented shadows of it.

How do you expect us to translate this gibberish you wrote:

"Our universities need to establish backward, lateral, horizontal and forward linkages in the value and supply chains so that they can remain relevant and useful to their communities, and not be perceived as ivory towers which are inured from the problems and expectations of their communities"

Horizontal? Lateral? Backwards linkages? Haba, cousin. OK, I am going to sign with my arms to get this horizontal, lateral, upwards, downward linkages right. I am doing it right now and faster so you should see my hand movements all over the place. Ahem! You're not making any sense here.

And then here's another one that doesn't make sense:

"To remain internationally competitive, our universities in Ghana should develop unique competences and unique selling points in their 4Ps and 7Ps so that they attract some of the best professors in the world and some international students."

4P-7P is algebra and the answer is -3P. I had no idea that was an educational lingo and if so, please tell us what those are. I swear it's one of those Listology acronyms. Haba, cousin, haba. You're too much but I love you.

You always present some impossible dictum when you start babbling. Thank God you're no king of Effutu else we couldn't survive in Winneba with your high expectations for us to host the Olympics, as you expect the Universities in Ghana to produce Nobel Laureates. Ahhh, What a dreamer. Tell us the type of pillow you use - foam, feather, cotton filled or savannah grass seeds pillow? Pray tell, right now because I want to dream the same dream you have in your nightly visions where you see all these parading Nobel winners from Ghanaian universities. Haba, cousin. Ain't this far fetched? Uh?

What do you mean when you write this:

"It is important for our universities to establish their reputation through publication of research work in international journal, and to produce Nobel Laureates"

You would've been a millionaire by now had you obtained you preachers license a long time ago. It seems every article you spit out these days has a biblical verse. Now this:

"This is based on Luke 12:48, where Jesus said, ‘For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required."

And then the Latin quotes:

"omni autem cui multum datum est multum quaeretur as eo (but to whosoever much has been given, much will be asked of him) (Wikipedia). The motto of the University of Ghana (established in 1948 as a University College under the University of London) is: Integri Procedamus, which means, ‘progress in integrity or proceeding with integrity"

In conclusion, I'll say you're too hanged up on academia and university education. They're really not important and overrated. The great men and pioneers of modern industry never set foot in any university so give us a break.

"Thinking" cannot be taught.

Saaaalute from the forehead to waist with a thundering foot stomp and a loud applause amid wild cheering, whaaaam.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

Hi Cousin, I miss you. You know what? I got lost in the academic jungle of Zambia and I hear you organised a rescue team of Special Forces from Ghana and USA, a combined team of Seals, Marines and BNI, FBI and CIA to look for ...
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Hi Cousin, I miss you. You know what? I got lost in the academic jungle of Zambia and I hear you organised a rescue team of Special Forces from Ghana and USA, a combined team of Seals, Marines and BNI, FBI and CIA to look for me but they drew a blank, till your second team of Nobel Laureates from the Ivy League and Russell Group found me buried deep in a mountainous heap of tomes of ancient lore, grazing on the classics and some loony arcane literature, so esoteric that the team immediately recommended me to become an Honorary Laureate! Then from my reverie, I saw you with Forest Whittaker, Will Smith, Jamie Fox, Denzel Washington, Beyonce, Spielberg, Mel Gibson, and Michael Jordan planning to make a movie of my exploits, with all the copyrights and proceeds donated to the fisher folk at Aboadze, Ponkoekyir, Oseenee, Wonsomu, Penkye, Eyipe, Mborabamu, Donkweyemu, among other suburbs of Wlnneba. Saaalute to you. Whaaaam! Stand by for more barrage of articles and zany words and poetry.
Ghanaba, USA 12 years ago

I like the current discourse on our "TERTIARY" education. The solution or model for our tertiary education is a hybrid of the ideas including the ones from O. Bosompra-Gyeabour and Paa Kwesi Mintah. We should not always tran ...
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I like the current discourse on our "TERTIARY" education. The solution or model for our tertiary education is a hybrid of the ideas including the ones from O. Bosompra-Gyeabour and Paa Kwesi Mintah. We should not always transplant things from "Aburokyire" but modify the ideas to suit the environment and develop our country.Neither too academic nor too "low tech".
Dantankwa 12 years ago

Thanks Kwesi. Finally, here comes another thought-provoking article worth reading and digesting. The article deals with nothing but issues and solutions, far from the usual unhealthy political dicourse associated with Ghanawe ...
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Thanks Kwesi. Finally, here comes another thought-provoking article worth reading and digesting. The article deals with nothing but issues and solutions, far from the usual unhealthy political dicourse associated with Ghanaweb. The fact that such a fine article caught the attention of only few readers should tell you how far our educational system has deteorated. Constructively, I would 've love to see the various points you illustrated in your paragraphs well linked. We look forward to reading more from you.

Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

Thanks Mr Dantankwa for your positive feedback.

Thanks Mr Dantankwa for your positive feedback.
F.APPIAH 12 years ago

Thank you very much my learned friend.This is what we called a discourse analysis.Your good article has enumerated all the problems facing our tertiary institutions in Ghana. Legon that prides itself as the premier university ...
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Thank you very much my learned friend.This is what we called a discourse analysis.Your good article has enumerated all the problems facing our tertiary institutions in Ghana. Legon that prides itself as the premier university in Ghana is no better match to a UK university that is placed at the bottom of the academic league table.The quality of a university is determined to a larger extent, the quality of academic research it produces.Every university in the western world produces research some kind of research to facilitate the development of the locality in which it is situated.Sunderland University,where I had my MBA,for example is actively and proactively engaged in research with the Nissa UK in many of its operational areas.This has greatly helped Nissan to identify every bottleneck in its operational processes;thus enhancing productivity and efficiency.Bravo!! brother for such a thought provoking article.Lessons have been learnt.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

Thanks, Bro Appiah for your kind words and positive feedback. We can share ideas to develop our country.

Thanks, Bro Appiah for your kind words and positive feedback. We can share ideas to develop our country.
F.APPIAH 12 years ago

In fact, it is a truism that our leaders are greedy, have no vision and have a misplaced priorities.Our country can never move forward if our leaders fail do think forward.The backwardness attitude of our leaders has stalled ...
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In fact, it is a truism that our leaders are greedy, have no vision and have a misplaced priorities.Our country can never move forward if our leaders fail do think forward.The backwardness attitude of our leaders has stalled development and progress in our lives.The development of any nation depends on its quality human resource.Our tertiary institutions were established purposely to produce the kind of quality human resource that the country would need to propel in its developmental agenda. UST,established as a technical university has never been able to come out with any innovation.One thing noted of KNUST is a mass production of empty headed technocrats.It is poorly resourced to take on its mantle.Again,what we are witnessing is failed educational system that turns out graduands with corrupt mentality in Ghana.Students are infested with corruption right on admission;as most will have to pay their way through to the university.They come out and become leaders and the practice of corruption is institutionalized. Our leaders,I have to say, have woefully failed us and now we have little or no hope in them again.I may sound somewhat eccentric,but I am tempted to propose that we should invite the white man to manage certain institutions in the country for us.I say this without fear or favor, that things would be in their right prospective. Because it appears that a black man is not capable of managing his own affairs.Our selfish and greedy mentality explain why we are still wallowing in abject poverty,retrogressing and stagnated in development.It is evident that in Ghana where white man lives,the environment is very serene.What do we see in the black man's surroundings?...answer for yourself.Our bad attitude is having a damning multiplier effect in our present generation and the generation to still to come.The mindset seriously needs to be changed if we want to move forward.
old Mind will destroy Ghana 12 years ago

Kwasi, you have to know that, polytechnic is better than your so called university.If the whole country adopt polytechnic education, Ghana will be like china. You so called the university student or old mind people everyday i ...
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Kwasi, you have to know that, polytechnic is better than your so called university.If the whole country adopt polytechnic education, Ghana will be like china. You so called the university student or old mind people everyday insult polytechnic education.I went to Cape Coast Polytechnic and I graduate in 2003 with HND in mechanical engineering,I came to US and I did industrial and Systems engineering.I am now doing my masters in engineering Management and Healthcare Administration.You people wake up and everyday insult polytechnic education,you Kwasi abet you, you cannot even study with some of the polytechnic graduate.Is the University graduates which have fail Ghana.They do not know how to create job,the only thing they know is government job,so that they can be MANAGERS.When I graduate in 2003,I did my national service and used the allowance I got to open a store, after the the service was over, I entered teaching field and used my pay over there to expand my business,before I came to US.I did not attended any University.Please give respect to Polytechnic education.You old people think that, your time education is the best,whereby when you people were in J.S.S you people cannot even write chemical symbol of common salt.
O. Bosompra-Gyeabuor 12 years ago

Sir Old Mind ...., with all due respect and all protocol observed, you are out of line. The thread was not intended to solicit insults and jealous rage. Nobody lambasted polytechnic education as a single malaise for our educa ...
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Sir Old Mind ...., with all due respect and all protocol observed, you are out of line. The thread was not intended to solicit insults and jealous rage. Nobody lambasted polytechnic education as a single malaise for our educational and developmental predicament. The article and subsequent tracts are meant for proposing solutions and creative ideas to make all our institutions first rate with first class products. There was nothing personal directed at polytechnics. Please do not force some of us to tell you the difference between our secondary schools, polytechnics and universities in the periods before the JSS and SSS saga. There were marked differences in the levels of the institutions, very marked differences in the levels of rigor and quality academics. The quality of the sciences, mathematics and all areas of intellectual development were much higher in the secondary schools than at the technical schools and polytechnics.
Thank you.
Wiafe 12 years ago

The pay of teachers and university lecturers is quite low. So one of the reforms will be to pay the lecturers good salaries and better facilities.

That's why private university in Ghana is a good thing--because over tim ...
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The pay of teachers and university lecturers is quite low. So one of the reforms will be to pay the lecturers good salaries and better facilities.

That's why private university in Ghana is a good thing--because over time--some can be more competitive and provide better conditions of service. The public universities are bloated and there's not much innovation taking place on those campuses.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

You are an insult to education from the poor English you write and your dimwit and lowbrow analytical skills. Where in my article did I insult polytechnic education? In Germany they are tops. Two of my sons did go to Accra P ...
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You are an insult to education from the poor English you write and your dimwit and lowbrow analytical skills. Where in my article did I insult polytechnic education? In Germany they are tops. Two of my sons did go to Accra Poly and Takoradi Poly and currently they are topping up at Cape Vars in Accounting and Laboratory Technology. You twerp!
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

You are an insult to education from the poor English you write and your dimwit and lowbrow analytical skills. Where in my article did I insult polytechnic education? In Germany they are tops. Two of my sons did go to Accra P ...
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You are an insult to education from the poor English you write and your dimwit and lowbrow analytical skills. Where in my article did I insult polytechnic education? In Germany they are tops. Two of my sons did go to Accra Poly and Takoradi Poly and currently they are topping up at Cape Vars in Accounting and Laboratory Technology. You twerp!
old Mind will destroy Ghana 12 years ago

Please Sir, I did not insult you. I was calling your attention on your open statement.You cannot put dust on peoples eyes.Does Germany speak English?but they are the best engineering country in the world.Do you eats english? ...
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Please Sir, I did not insult you. I was calling your attention on your open statement.You cannot put dust on peoples eyes.Does Germany speak English?but they are the best engineering country in the world.Do you eats english? That is the reason why I made a statement that, Old mind will destroy Ghana.You are the best Example

Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

You are an insult to education from the poor English you write and your dimwit and lowbrow analytical skills. Where in my article did I insult polytechnic education? In Germany they are tops. Two of my sons did go to Accra P ...
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You are an insult to education from the poor English you write and your dimwit and lowbrow analytical skills. Where in my article did I insult polytechnic education? In Germany they are tops. Two of my sons did go to Accra Poly and Takoradi Poly and currently they are topping up at Cape Vars in Accounting and Laboratory Technology. You twerp!
old Mind will destroy Ghana 12 years ago

Please, You people are dead in your brain,if I did not come to America,I will never, know that, common mechanical is more important than old mind professor in Ghana.You old people are dead in your head.Everyday you old people ...
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Please, You people are dead in your brain,if I did not come to America,I will never, know that, common mechanical is more important than old mind professor in Ghana.You old people are dead in your head.Everyday you old people talk about english,thinking that,all of us can be English teacher.When you went to Germany did you speak English over there old mind. I knew your mind is getting older and little,therefore you can sit behind your computer and fool.English does not means write big word fool.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

You are an insult to education from the poor English you write and your dimwit and lowbrow analytical skills. Where in my article did I insult polytechnic education? In Germany they are tops. Two of my sons did go to Accra P ...
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You are an insult to education from the poor English you write and your dimwit and lowbrow analytical skills. Where in my article did I insult polytechnic education? In Germany they are tops. Two of my sons did go to Accra Poly and Takoradi Poly and currently they are topping up at Cape Vars in Accounting and Laboratory Technology. You twerp!
old Mind will destroy Ghana 12 years ago

I knew those who criticize people do not want to be collected, and Kwasi you are the best example.You sit behind your computer thinking that, everybody will praise you. I will never, praise you.If you think education in Ghana ...
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I knew those who criticize people do not want to be collected, and Kwasi you are the best example.You sit behind your computer thinking that, everybody will praise you. I will never, praise you.If you think education in Ghana education is low as polytechnic, get out of Germany and come and teach English.You old people think you know better than anybody and when young people are correcting you people,the old mind will never listen. Know body can train an old dog and Kwasi you are the old dog.Keep quit you are outmoded.The new technology which is going around the world, you do not belong to it
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

You are an insult to education from the poor English you write and your dimwit and lowbrow analytical skills. Where in my article did I insult polytechnic education? In Germany they are tops. Two of my sons did go to Accra P ...
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You are an insult to education from the poor English you write and your dimwit and lowbrow analytical skills. Where in my article did I insult polytechnic education? In Germany they are tops. Two of my sons did go to Accra Poly and Takoradi Poly and currently they are topping up at Cape Vars in Accounting and Laboratory Technology. You twerp!
old Mind will destroy Ghana 12 years ago

One funny think about old mind people is that,always they insult people with English forgetting that, we are not Queen Elizabeth Children.China's people do not speak English and they are the best in technology, Germany, Franc ...
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One funny think about old mind people is that,always they insult people with English forgetting that, we are not Queen Elizabeth Children.China's people do not speak English and they are the best in technology, Germany, France,Portugal, Spain to mention but few.However, African man like Kwasi has made English like his wife vagina.He think without English he cannot eats fool.
Kwesi Atta Sakyi 12 years ago

You lowbrow and dimwit brat and twerp. Where did I denigrate Polytechnic education? You are indeed an insult to education with your poorly written English and very low critical thinking and analytical skills. Germany is what ...
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You lowbrow and dimwit brat and twerp. Where did I denigrate Polytechnic education? You are indeed an insult to education with your poorly written English and very low critical thinking and analytical skills. Germany is what it is from their Technikons. My two sons did HND at Accra and Takoradi Poly and now topping up at Cape Vars.
old Mind will destroy Ghana 12 years ago

I came to this platform to read some of the old mind thinking,and fortunately, I came across your article.I knew old people think that, their time is the best.However, their time was one of the useless period in the history o ...
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I came to this platform to read some of the old mind thinking,and fortunately, I came across your article.I knew old people think that, their time is the best.However, their time was one of the useless period in the history of mankind. I was not interested in competition with you with critical thinking.However, only small piece I wrote makes you cry like little baby because you do not think that, somebody will tell you that your thinking is old thinking.
Kontopiaat 12 years ago

You lowbrow and dimwit brat and twerp. Where did I denigrate Polytechnic education? You are indeed an insult to education with your poorly written English and very low critical thinking and analytical skills. Germany is what ...
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You lowbrow and dimwit brat and twerp. Where did I denigrate Polytechnic education? You are indeed an insult to education with your poorly written English and very low critical thinking and analytical skills. Germany is what it is from their Technikons. My two sons did HND at Accra and Takoradi Poly and now topping up at Cape Vars.
old Mind will destroy Ghana 12 years ago

Please Mr.English what is the meaning of these,To some observers of the trend of education in Ghana, some of our new universities are no more than glorified high schools, colleges or polytechnics, going by international stand ...
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Please Mr.English what is the meaning of these,To some observers of the trend of education in Ghana, some of our new universities are no more than glorified high schools, colleges or polytechnics, going by international standards and rigour of delivering quality university education.

Mawusi 12 years ago

This is a master piece. You should be a consultant on tertiary education. We need more of you in the society to resolve the current moral decay and the educational decay in our society.

This is a master piece. You should be a consultant on tertiary education. We need more of you in the society to resolve the current moral decay and the educational decay in our society.
Oheneboi 12 years ago

Show and then tell. There has been too many telling without showing, too many know- how without show-how. That's what we call true leadership. Please show us the way, tired of clueless leadership

Show and then tell. There has been too many telling without showing, too many know- how without show-how. That's what we call true leadership. Please show us the way, tired of clueless leadership

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