A former Director General of the Ghana Education Service, Charles Aheto Tsegah has stated that Ghana’s position on the global school rankings is not surprising .<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know why it is being made to sound like it is news. It is not news. It is something that is known…\u201d said Mr. Tsegah.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”MpFVAhE8j8lNNXsM2N5EvRSd7zofDkhJ”]The Organisation for Cooperation and Development\u2019s (OECD) global school rankings which is considered the biggest in the world analyzed 76 countries and put Asian countries in the top five spots and Ghana and other African countries at the bottom.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Speaking on Citi FM \u2018s<\/strong> News Analysis Programme, The Big Issue,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Mr. Tsegah admitted that Ghana\u2019s educational system has indeed deteriorated over the years, saying\u00a0\u201csome 12 years on we have deteriorated in terms of how we are teaching Maths and Science.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Tsegah attributed Ghana\u2019s position \u00a0to what he described as \u201csignificant challenges\u201d that are hindering the delivery of quality education in the country.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of us are also aware that even when you come locally, significant challenges to the process of delivering education, have contributed in huge measure to some levels of poor quality in terms of the services that we are providing for our teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n He however \u00a0revealed that the Ministry of Education in conjunction with government are undertaking programmes that will \u201creverse some of those significant challenges\u201d<\/p>\n Ghana hasn\u2019t always been last<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Tsegah posited that Ghana\u2019s performance in the previous years had been very good.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have not always been last. In fact the first time we entered the assessment, we floored South Africa…\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Tsegah remarked that government and the Ministry of Education had learnt lessons from the assessment, adding that it had created an avenue for Ghana to provide a certain comparability in terms of educational attainment and to assess its performance locally.<\/p>\n Suggestions for improvement <\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Tsegah advised the Ghana Education Service(GES) to do more in terms of training teachers as well as improve the manner in which Maths and Science lessons are delivered.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to do a little bit more in terms of how we train our teachers and in terms of how even we even deliver the lessons in terms of Maths and Science.\u201d<\/p>\n Click on audio to listen to Mr. Tsegah<\/strong>
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