'Too many teachers of convenience in the system'

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Ajit Babu 10 years ago

Ever since I was a kid, academic rejects go into teaching. Tel me - which bright student that passed with distinction would choose a post-sec education over sixth form. Anyone with great grades at O Level or SHS level goes to ...
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Ever since I was a kid, academic rejects go into teaching. Tel me - which bright student that passed with distinction would choose a post-sec education over sixth form. Anyone with great grades at O Level or SHS level goes to the university. Those with less desirable grades enter training colleges. Even some with 9-in-chains and worse. Teachers in Ghana are fundamentally losers.

Finland selects the best students into teacher training and the less bright ones go into medicine and other careers. Plus teachers are very well paid in Finland. Can Ghana and Africa do the same? Hell NO!
CORNEY 10 years ago

You are totally wrong,may be you don't know much about the education system in Ghana.

Most people who chose the training colleges did so because of money to pay for their education which was not the case in the training c ...
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You are totally wrong,may be you don't know much about the education system in Ghana.

Most people who chose the training colleges did so because of money to pay for their education which was not the case in the training colleges and there was also very few six form schools to absorb the students who got O' levels,no training college will admit people with 9 in chains as you want people to believe,I don't call a person a liar but I will call you today a liar and a too known guy trying to destroy people's image because you may be living in Norway,shame on you.
Tt 10 years ago

Coney, Babu's submission is on point though i differ slightly. The teacher training colleges are filled mostly with disappointed students who could not meet the required grades of the top Universities in Ghana. the nursing c ...
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Coney, Babu's submission is on point though i differ slightly. The teacher training colleges are filled mostly with disappointed students who could not meet the required grades of the top Universities in Ghana. the nursing colleges are the same.most of my dumb collegues from secondary school gain admission to either the training colleges or nursing schools and are now teachers and nurses.
Dessie 10 years ago

Then, does your analysis implies that;Government should mandate all bright student from SHS graduates into teaching field for a couple of years before entering university?

Then, does your analysis implies that;Government should mandate all bright student from SHS graduates into teaching field for a couple of years before entering university?
Warmec 10 years ago

You can say so because you are stupid and have no brains. who taught the students you think are brilliant? adu vovo!!!

You can say so because you are stupid and have no brains. who taught the students you think are brilliant? adu vovo!!!
Ajit Babu 10 years ago

If you ever attended a secondary school in Ghana, then you would understand what I am telling you. Myslef and all the bright classmates went straight to sixth form and into the universities for various professions. Guess wher ...
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If you ever attended a secondary school in Ghana, then you would understand what I am telling you. Myslef and all the bright classmates went straight to sixth form and into the universities for various professions. Guess where the less academically desirable classmates went - post-sec training colleges to teach and most are stuck in villages now. The last time I met one in Kumasi, I really felt sorry for him and his cohorts.
MANSA MUSA 10 years ago

....so you were more clever and proceeded to the university....what creative or inventive contribution have you made towards the progress of ghana....

....so you were more clever and proceeded to the university....what creative or inventive contribution have you made towards the progress of ghana....
amposco 10 years ago

Ajit badu u are totally wrong.The most weak and disappointing students now are those graduating from so called universities in Ghana.Our educational system is in shambles.starting from KG to University all are bogus.about Gov ...
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Ajit badu u are totally wrong.The most weak and disappointing students now are those graduating from so called universities in Ghana.Our educational system is in shambles.starting from KG to University all are bogus.about Govetnment needless educational policies...........hmmmm
CORNEY 10 years ago

Thank you Mr Professor,but blame your school too which is part of the mushrooming of degrees into the teaching system at the expense of teaching.
We think by forcing teachers to acquire degrees and diplomas is better for edu ...
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Thank you Mr Professor,but blame your school too which is part of the mushrooming of degrees into the teaching system at the expense of teaching.
We think by forcing teachers to acquire degrees and diplomas is better for education in Ghana without thinking of what the average teacher can do with those degrees,we make teachers to spend time to get degrees that have nothing to do with what they are doing in the classroom.

In the past teachers who came from universities start from Superitendent of Education but today we have teachers from these colleges starting from Principal Superintedents which in the past was not cheap to acquire and these young teachers are in the classrooms not knowing their left from right only wait to get paid while standard of education is going down.
We are producing pass and forget teachers,in otherwise,pass and fail teachers.
Godwin Agot, Gbewaa College 10 years ago

That is true but we must look this issue in terms all public sector employees. There are nurses of convenience, doctors of convenience. In fact all of us are workers of convenience. Let assess practicals and issue licences an ...
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That is true but we must look this issue in terms all public sector employees. There are nurses of convenience, doctors of convenience. In fact all of us are workers of convenience. Let assess practicals and issue licences and not emphasie only certificates

Jake 10 years ago

was one of said academic rejects. Most of the students who attended his class had nothing good to say about him. Yet he comes on Ghanaweb with big vocabs of insults.

was one of said academic rejects. Most of the students who attended his class had nothing good to say about him. Yet he comes on Ghanaweb with big vocabs of insults.
AKOS KONKOSA 10 years ago

COME TO ASHANTI REGION AND SEE THE ROT THAT IS HAPPENING. MANAGEMENT OF ANSEC.........NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT. KILLING PEOPLES SPIRIT.

COME TO ASHANTI REGION AND SEE THE ROT THAT IS HAPPENING. MANAGEMENT OF ANSEC.........NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT. KILLING PEOPLES SPIRIT.
Gl 10 years ago

I guess u are also a director of convenience. You get to the top and forget about those in the classroom doing their best to teach these young ones. Tell the ministry to provide what is needed for quality teaching and learnin ...
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I guess u are also a director of convenience. You get to the top and forget about those in the classroom doing their best to teach these young ones. Tell the ministry to provide what is needed for quality teaching and learning.
And again if failed students go into teaching, u wouldn't have been able to read what I have written.
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Charles Agbenu 10 years ago

Of course, there are too many Presidents of convenience in Ghana. JOHN BULLMAHAMA himself is a President of convenience.... terribly useless, at sea and a wreckage

Of course, there are too many Presidents of convenience in Ghana. JOHN BULLMAHAMA himself is a President of convenience.... terribly useless, at sea and a wreckage
Ugly akufo addo 10 years ago

After Talensi they emergencily send him out from Ghana to UK

After Talensi they emergencily send him out from Ghana to UK

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