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Whither University and Tertiary Education in Ghana?

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  • O. Bosompra-Gyeabuor 10 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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  • Kobena 10 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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  • O. Bosompra-Gyeabuor 10 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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  • LUKE ISAAC ATUGEBA 10 years ago

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

  • Ghanatta Ayaric 10 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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  • eoa-uk 10 years ago

    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 10 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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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 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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  • Ghanaba, USA 10 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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  • Dantankwa 10 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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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago

    Thanks Mr Dantankwa for your positive feedback.

  • F.APPIAH 10 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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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 years ago

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

  • F.APPIAH 10 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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  • old Mind will destroy Ghana 10 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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  • O. Bosompra-Gyeabuor 10 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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  • Wiafe 10 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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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 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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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 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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  • old Mind will destroy Ghana 10 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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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 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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  • old Mind will destroy Ghana 10 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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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 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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  • old Mind will destroy Ghana 10 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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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 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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  • old Mind will destroy Ghana 10 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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  • Kwesi Atta Sakyi 10 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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  • old Mind will destroy Ghana 10 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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  • Kontopiaat 10 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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  • old Mind will destroy Ghana 10 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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  • Mawusi 10 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.

  • Oheneboi 10 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