[ 2017-03-18 ]

Franklin Cudjoe,founding president of IMANI Ghana

Reverting to ‘O’ & ‘A’ level system not advisable - Franklin Cudjoe
The Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Franklin
Cudjoe, has said it will not be advisable for
government to reintroduce the ‘O’ and ‘A’
level system of education, as suggested by the
Ghana Charismatic Bishops Conference.

Speaking on Citi FM’s News Analysis Programme,
The Big Issue, Mr. Cudjoe said it will be needless
to revert to the old system, since challenges
facing the educational sector have nothing to do
with the ‘O’ and ‘A’ level educational
system.

He believes to resolve challenges facing the
educational sector, politicians, who in his view
are responsible for messing up the educational
system, should be compelled to introduce effective
policies that will address these challenges.

“Unfortunately, the same politicians in the
fourth republic alone, have messed the system so
badly that they never really paid particular
attention to the workshops that were supposed to
come along with these renewed forms of education.
The biggest challenge to delivering results
through these schemes has always been the
politician.

What has happened now is that, it is the people at
the lowest ranks of the poverty chain who have
technical vocational schools, which I think it is
a very bad thing to do. I will not necessarily
agree to bring the old system, but rather we
should tell politicians that there are certain
things you need to back off.”

The Charismatic Bishops’ Conference in a
communiqué issued earlier this week, called on
the government to reintroduce the ‘O’ and
‘A’ level educational system which according
to them, will restore the integrity of formal
education in Ghana.

It said the country had been subjected to an
inferior form of education through the JHS and SHS
for many years.”

The Charismatic Bishops’ Conference, founded by
Bishop Dag Heward Mills, and comprises seasoned
Ghanaian clergy, said, “we call the JHS and SHS
an inferior form of education because
international universities require our SHS
graduates to do a foundational course for a whole
year before admitting them to the university
proper.

Years ago, graduates from secondary schools in
Ghana did not have to do such foundational courses
because they already had a good foundation.”

Source - citifmonline.com

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