A Non-governmental Organization in the Western Region, Interlekt Ghana has urged government to as a matter of urgency change the country’s educational system.
According to the NGO, it has identified that the current system will not bring the educational change Ghanaians desires.
Speaking to Citi News, the Lead Executive at Interlekt Ghana, Ken Kpodo expressed worries at the poor reading rate of students at the national levels saying, “At the national level we have only two percent of peoples in basic education who can read fluently with understanding and the statistics of trained teachers in these regions is only 44 percent.”
[contextly_sidebar id=”waVUPwozONkJ51h6oyPBUKoDhVC9UE6x”]He argued that the country is unprepared to revolutionize the educational sector and therefore encourage the government to emulate good examples from foreign countries to improve its educational systems.
“98 percent of the monies invested in education are used to pay salaries so we don’t have anything left to improve anything in the system, so we need to set a goal like some Western world countries,” he added.
This is not the first time concerns have been raised about the standard of educational in Ghana.
Ghana’s education system was in September 2014 described as below international standards at all levels by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
A survey carried out by the Ghana Education Service last year also revealed that 98 percent of primary two pupils in basic schools can neither read nor understand English or any Ghanaian language properly.
This was contained in the “Early Grade Reading Assessment” report commissioned by the GES for primary two pupils.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Central Tongu Constituency in the Volta Region, Joe Gidisu has bemoaned the fallen standards of education in the Ho west district.
By: Patricia Conteh/citifmonline.com/Ghana