Lowering admission aggregate to grade ‘A’ schools pitiful – FOGET
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President of the Foundation for Generational Thinkers (FOGET), Prosper Dan Afetsi has taken a strong position against the Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum suggestion that admission opportunities should be offered to aggregate 25 BECE students to grade ‘A’ schools.

In his view, lowering the status quo for students to get admission into prestigious schools or grade ‘A’ doesn’t only defeats logic but the quality and standard of the country’s education.

He said giving students with poor grades a leeway to enter prestigious Senior High Schools (SHS), defeats the essence of giving schools and students high target to accomplish entirely.

According to him, instead of the Minister trying to cut corners, the education ministry must rather focused energy on how to address the challenges leading to students’ poor performance in the BECE ( Basic Education Certificate Examination) as well as the West African Senior School Certificate (WASSE).

He said many of the schools that are struggling at the bottom lack facilities, and instruction and learning materials for effective teaching and learning, hence without addressing such fundamental issues, the ad-hoc solution being professed by the minister would further worsen the already fallen standards of education in the country.

The FOGET president argued the county is currently battling teeming youth employment because the focus had been on produced more number of graduates than productive population or societies who can apply wisdom and knowledge to create something meanful for national development.

Mr Afetsi reiterated that if education standard cannot be made better, the status quo should not change.

He said: “the taproot of the problem in Ghana’s development is not the existence of Grade ‘A’ schools but most of the Senior High Schools lack facilities of Grade ‘A’ schools that would enable them come apt with those in the limelight.”