The Ghana Education Service (GES), has in a U-turn indicated that its donor partners should not be blamed for the errors that were found in integrated science textbooks meant for Junior High Schools across the country.
This is contrary to an earlier assertion that donors who sponsored the publication of the books were responsible for the errors.
The Deputy Director of GES, Stephen Adu in an earlier interview said “it was donor partners who sponsored the printing; they gave it to their own printers so we did not see the book until they came into the system.”
[contextly_sidebar id=”jDn7k8x7uTPJRU3DEQgap24notu4Lu4V”]But the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service, Reverend Jonathan Bettey, says the mistakes are due to the GES’ own negligence hence their donor partners, should not be blamed for the errors.
“Stephen Adu [the Deputy Director of Education] should be disassociated from the blame [directed at donors] and the donor partners should also not be blamed for the mistakes. I wouldn’t like the blame to go to donor partners; we as Ghana Education Service fell short of what we should have done, I am however not saying this is how it is always; it is just unfortunate that it happened like this” Rev. Bettey said in an interview with Citi News.
He further explained that a lot of schools have stopped using the books since all directors of education across the country have been directed to withdraw the books.
A junior high school teacher, Phanuel Ayawli, last year petitioned the Ghana Education Service to withdraw the flawed science textbooks from the system.
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By: Kwame Botchway/citifmonline.com/Ghana