{"id":185384,"date":"2016-01-29T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=185384"},"modified":"2016-01-29T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T06:00:55","slug":"ges-accepts-blame-for-error-ridden-science-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=185384","title":{"rendered":"GES accepts blame for error-ridden science textbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"t pgm0 pgx0 pgh1 pgy0 pgff1 pgfs0 pgfc0 pgsc0 pgls0 pgws0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This is contrary to an earlier assertion that donors who sponsored the publication of the books were responsible for the errors.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Director of GES, Stephen Adu in an earlier interview said \u201cit 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;jDn7k8x7uTPJRU3DEQgap24notu4Lu4V&#8221;]But the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Education Service, Reverend Jonathan Bettey, says the mistakes are due to the GES\u2019 own negligence hence their donor partners, should not be blamed for the errors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStephen 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.\u00a0I wouldn\u2019t 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\u201d Rev. Bettey said in an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A junior high school teacher, Phanuel Ayawli, last year <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/11\/24\/teacher-petitions-ministry-over-error-ridden-jhs-text-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">petitioned the Ghana Education Service<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to withdraw the flawed science textbooks from the system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Kwame Botchway\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}