Ghana's Poor Academic Ranking Is Not The Least Bit Surprising

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 10 years ago

  The tragedy of our education lies in the fact that it has succeeded in producing ethnocentric bigots like you, Okoampa-Ahoofe, a person with no wisdom or intelligence. Remember you once called me Asanteni aboa?
  
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  The tragedy of our education lies in the fact that it has succeeded in producing ethnocentric bigots like you, Okoampa-Ahoofe, a person with no wisdom or intelligence. Remember you once called me Asanteni aboa?
  
  If the grounds assigned for our dismal performance in the rankings is that it produced an irrational dimwit like you, it should suffice to me. By the way, what is the use of your education to national progress if you cannot figure out the commonality of our genes and heritage?

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• KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 10 years ago

  Well done to Ghana for coming in the rankings, 76th amomg 76 countries in the whole wide world.
  
  Ghana is even lucky to have been counted or say to be selected.

  Well done to Ghana for coming in the rankings, 76th amomg 76 countries in the whole wide world.
  
  Ghana is even lucky to have been counted or say to be selected.

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• Toms 10 years ago

  Muchisima gracias Dr. SAS. You have hit the nail right on the head. If this guy has any sense at all. he would't never ever attempt to talk on issues such as these Yes, he has a PhD What is the use of that PhD if he did not ...
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  Muchisima gracias Dr. SAS. You have hit the nail right on the head. If this guy has any sense at all. he would't never ever attempt to talk on issues such as these Yes, he has a PhD What is the use of that PhD if he did not use it to the benefit of the society, but instead, use it for his dirty ethnocentric diatribes against certain tribes? This man, Ahoofe is a complete waste of his father's sperm.

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• Abingo 10 years ago

  So SAS what is your take on Ghana's 76th position? Let us also hear what you've got to say about that. This is Dr Okoampa's assessment Let us hear from you also. I think attacking Okoampa in this regard is most unfortunate.

  So SAS what is your take on Ghana's 76th position? Let us also hear what you've got to say about that. This is Dr Okoampa's assessment Let us hear from you also. I think attacking Okoampa in this regard is most unfortunate.

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• JKK 10 years ago

  Why are we overworking ourselves over the OECD rankings so much?
  
  Ghana came 76th in a sample of 76 countries. Most of the countries in the sample are OECD rich country nations. The OECD conducts this study regularly for i ...
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  Why are we overworking ourselves over the OECD rankings so much?
  
  Ghana came 76th in a sample of 76 countries. Most of the countries in the sample are OECD rich country nations. The OECD conducts this study regularly for itself. This time it expands it and makes a ranking that includes some non OECD countries it gets data for. The countries that outranked us have always outranked us on the metric. They are richer.
  
  The study does NOT show that the quality of our schools have fallen. Perhaps it has but that is not shown by the study. The study only aimed at showing the relationship between quality of schools and development. Then it shows the relative positions of the countries in the sample. The study does NOT show that we have the worst schools in the world!
  
  The study includes only 5 African countries all of which are in the lower bottom. The countries in the top half are all richer and more developed than Ghana. We cannot expect to be above them in such rankings.
  
  By all means, let us talk of ways of improving our schools and education at all levels as an urgent need. We need to do this even without an OECD study.
  
  But let us stop this nonsense of saying "Ghana got last". We will still need to improve our schools even if we had come up high on the list.

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• Nana Yaw 10 years ago

  What has 108 houses and condoms got go do with your topic and since you know it all, why didn't you and your certified idiots change the system in 2000-2008?

  What has 108 houses and condoms got go do with your topic and since you know it all, why didn't you and your certified idiots change the system in 2000-2008?

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• K. A. 10 years ago

  Okoampa-Ahoofe, to argue, as you’ve done here, that Ghana’s poor academic ranking by OECD reached its most unenviable level or apogee when former President J. J. Rawlings seized power at the end of 1982 demonstrates your ...
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  Okoampa-Ahoofe, to argue, as you’ve done here, that Ghana’s poor academic ranking by OECD reached its most unenviable level or apogee when former President J. J. Rawlings seized power at the end of 1982 demonstrates your narrow-mindedness, not to mention the fact that that narrow-mindedness itself is rooted in your ethnocentric bigotry. The fact is that this bigotry of yours has so much clouded your vision that you can hardly resist the slightest temptation to show your hatred for the Rawlingses. This means that whatever intelligence and wisdom you may have have been of little or no help to you in this connection and in your scheme of things in general.
  
  When former President J. A. Kufuor succeeded Rawlings and stayed in power for eight good years, didn’t he and his administration see the rot that you’ve written about? What did he do about it? Was he not merely concerned about leaving a legacy for himself and he stupidly thought he could achieve that by merely changing the names of secondary schools to high schools? What benefit precisely did Ghana and its educational system derive from that change except to please America?
  
  I personally am of the opinion that one terrible mistake our politicians and educational stakeholders have made that has drastically lowered the academic standards of our schools and has thus led to the current poor ranking by OECD is the senseless reduction of the duration of our secondary schools from five or seven years to three years. How exactly is it possible for secondary schools to cover in three years the entire syllabus that was covered in seven years before entering tertiary institutions? Even secondary schools in Britain and America, where English is their language, still maintain a longer duration. Britain still maintains its 6th Form which students must pass through to enter tertiary institutions while the United States runs a four-year secondary school programme for its children. Why should Ghana adopt a three-year secondary school curriculum?
  
  Unless Ghanaians re-think and reduce to the minimum or entirely do away with political interference in our educational policies and adopt concrete and effective measures to lay a firm foundation for our first and second cycle educational institutions, we’re doomed forever; we will continue to lag behind other nations and we cannot produce graduates who’ll be able to acquire the necessary expertise and tools to solve our socio-economic problems.

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• Lambert 10 years ago

  Do you think it has got to do with the duration? Well, insamuch as duration could be a contributing factor, I think there are lots of other factors as well. We need to look at it from the fundamentals, vis-a-vis what it takes ...
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  Do you think it has got to do with the duration? Well, insamuch as duration could be a contributing factor, I think there are lots of other factors as well. We need to look at it from the fundamentals, vis-a-vis what it takes to achieve that goal.When the new syatem was introuduced,there were no classrooms,no workshops/labs, teachers were not trained for the programs and the rest.Then came in politics as you rightly said. We have a long way to go. Ahoofe is just being mischievous and as usual, trying to take the opportunity to once again, demonstarte his insanity and hatred for the Rawlinses for no apparent reasons whatsoever.Sadly, he is not using his PhD for the benefit of the larger society, but using it to encourage his Akyem supremacy and his ethnocentric crusade, that amounts to nothing. Are these character fit to be in a civilized society?

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• Abingo 10 years ago

  I wonder why Ghanaians are so bias and are not ready to call spade a spade. Is is not Rawlings who scraped the old system and introduced this failed JSS/SSS programme? And When Kuffour came to power did he not try to correct ...
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  I wonder why Ghanaians are so bias and are not ready to call spade a spade. Is is not Rawlings who scraped the old system and introduced this failed JSS/SSS programme? And When Kuffour came to power did he not try to correct it by increasing the duration to FOUR years only for it to be reversed back to THREE years by NDC? I wonder why people want to worship Rawlings and want us to believe that everything he did was perfect. P/NDC is a sham and waste on time. Most of the problems we face now started with the so-called revolution.

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• Kowadis 10 years ago

  Didn't you, Okoampa, get your SOLID
  educational foundation in Ghana's sytem, and then proceed to gain "laurels in academia" in very competitive USA?

  Didn't you, Okoampa, get your SOLID
  educational foundation in Ghana's sytem, and then proceed to gain "laurels in academia" in very competitive USA?

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• kaven 10 years ago

  Followed by Current one and her deputy Ablakwa so this is the result. They all lack insight of what a actual quality form of education looks like in a state school. How can we expect quality education running through like a w ...
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  Followed by Current one and her deputy Ablakwa so this is the result. They all lack insight of what a actual quality form of education looks like in a state school. How can we expect quality education running through like a worm in Ghana's educational system. It will never happen. Only people in diapsora who know the Brisitish educational system could help rescue the situation but the minister of Education will not invite them in to discuss anything simply because she is feels she knows it all.

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• Andrew Whitehead 10 years ago

  Ghanain kids better stop sling English and that's holding them down.They think sling is a real English and that's the major problem.

  Ghanain kids better stop sling English and that's holding them down.They think sling is a real English and that's the major problem.

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• Pee 10 years ago

  Okoampa, in his infinite foolishness cannot even get the year Rawlings made his second coup right. 31 December 1981 becomes 31 December 1982. Kwame,your famous Nassau Community College"s ranking is not impressive either.

  Okoampa, in his infinite foolishness cannot even get the year Rawlings made his second coup right. 31 December 1981 becomes 31 December 1982. Kwame,your famous Nassau Community College"s ranking is not impressive either.

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• KanyeEast 10 years ago

  According to foolish Okoampa, every problem in the world was started by Kwame Nkrumah.

  According to foolish Okoampa, every problem in the world was started by Kwame Nkrumah.

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• BERNARD 10 years ago

  Nana had 3rd class from Legon. Went to Oxford and realised his academic standard was below par and did a runner. Next, he went to Middle Temple in London to study law not through any academic achievement but, through an arran ...
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  Nana had 3rd class from Legon. Went to Oxford and realised his academic standard was below par and did a runner. Next, he went to Middle Temple in London to study law not through any academic achievement but, through an arrangement with the School and his father then, Ceremonial President under Busia' s government. At the end of it all he still has not got any certificate to prove his credentials. He was only helped by friends in Ghana who forged documents to claim he qualified as a lawyer.

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• kwaku 10 years ago

  The worst has started, I am a teacher in a school somewhere in brong ahafo , and the malpractice is very terrible, Ghanaians must wakeup, everything from objectives to theory is solved for the students, nothing is going on in ...
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  The worst has started, I am a teacher in a school somewhere in brong ahafo , and the malpractice is very terrible, Ghanaians must wakeup, everything from objectives to theory is solved for the students, nothing is going on in our schools

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