The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has questioned the quality of teaching in Senior High Schools (SHS) across the country.
According to the Executive Director of the Council, Charles Aheto-Tsegah, the real challenge of the country’s dwindling standards of education has to do with the inability of teachers to deliver the content of the curriculum.
[contextly_sidebar id=”SG3qUN34vaxlYUyooKY8InXxVCuKXEM1″]His comments come on the back of the poor performance of candidates in this year’s West African Senior School Examinations (WASSCE), re-igniting a national debate on the state of the country’s educational system.
Some stakeholders have attributed the problem to the three-year duration for Senior High Schools, which they argue is too short for students to churn out the desired results in WASSCE.
But speaking on the Ghana Report on Viasat 1 with Bernard Avle, Mr. Tsegah dismissed these suggestions, saying the real challenge has to do with the teachers and not the content of curriculum or the duration.
“The problem is the teaching of the curriculum and whether the people who are teaching it have that capacity and the skills to deliver it as it is expected,” Mr. Tsegah said.
About 1,576 candidates had some of their subjects results cancelled, while 598 candidates had their entire results cancelled in this year’s edition.
Even though the results in these subjects were slightly better than last year’s, some stakeholders believe it is a reflection of dwindling standards of education.
A day after the results were released, the Paramount Chief of the area, Ogyeahoho Yaw Gyebi, asked the presidential nominee for the NPP, Nana Addo, to consider bringing back the four-year duration for Senior High Schools, if he is given the nod in the December general elections.
The Chief made the appeal when Nana Addo commenced his 5-day visit in the northern part of the Western Region.
In the view of the Chief, the three year duration is too short to guarantee success and churn out the quality of graduates needed.
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By: Marian Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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