{"id":238326,"date":"2016-08-11T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T12:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238326"},"modified":"2016-08-11T12:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T12:08:54","slug":"politicizing-education-damaging-to-ghana-prof-yankah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/politicizing-education-damaging-to-ghana-prof-yankah\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicizing education damaging to Ghana &#8211; Prof. Yankah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The politicization of the structure of Ghana&#8217;s educational system has handicapped secondary education, the Central University President,\u00a0Professor\u00a0Kwesi\u00a0Yankah has lamented.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Yankah holds the view that the short-lived extension of secondary education to four years was a positive step but political expediency ultimately saw a reversion to the three system at the expense of quality education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the statistics show. My analysis of the trends from 2006 to 2015 and now 2016 clearly show\u201d that the four-year system was better than the current three years, he asserted on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;It is clear the three years is not working&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;deECUb2hTLYTYiQ2dH7ZzKv1usm1r6fs&#8221;]Former President John Kufuor\u2019s New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration started the 4-year Senior High School programme\u00a0in 2007 based on research.<\/p>\n<p>The new system however lasted three academic years as the National Democratic Congress (NDC) assumed power in 2009 and reverted to the three year system which Prof. Yankah maintains was rushed and ill advised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2009, even without examining the outcomes of the four year project which had been introduce by the Kufuor regime, even without analysing it, or even without allowing it\u00a0run its full course from year one, two, three, four \u2013 examining the results and determining if it was something productive or otherwise, they [the NDC government] just decided; let\u2019s truncate it and restore the three year project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that is where the politics then comes in and now political again when it is so clear that the three years is not working. It is hurting our children, it is hurting parents, it is hurting industry, and it is hurting the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>NDC unwilling to admit mistake<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Politics is also keeping the NDC government from admitting a mistake was made by reverting back to the three year system, according to Prof. Yankah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn spite of all this, nobody is stepping forward to say maybe we made a mistake, maybe we should listen to what Kufuor was saying. But if you mention Kufuor, it is politics. If you mention the policy that NPP introduced and that it was working and that what has turned out to be superior, that was political and that hurts. That is the problem with this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2016 WASSCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The quality of the country\u2019s secondary education is a perennial hot topic when WASSCE results are released.<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown of the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/08\/09\/2016-wassce-results-out-1576-results-cancelled\/\">2016 WASSCE results<\/a><\/strong><\/span> reiterated the educational system\u2019s struggle with Mathematics and the Sciences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/WASSCE-WAEC-May-June-2015-Results-Out-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-220835\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/WASSCE-WAEC-May-June-2015-Results-Out-2.png\" alt=\"WASSCE-WAEC-May-June-2015-Results-Out-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A total of 274,262 candidates participated in the 2016 exams and according to WAEC, a total of 125,065 students obtained A1 to C6 in English Language, which is 53.19%, 59,725 (25.40%) obtained D7-E8 whilst 46,595 (19.82%) had F9.<\/p>\n<p>For Mathematics, 77,108 (32.83%) obtained A1-C6; 65,007 (27.68%) obtained D7-E8 whilst 89,477 (38.10%) had F9.<\/p>\n<p>About 113,933 students obtained A1-C6 in Integrated Science which is 48.48%, 75,938 (32.32%) obtained D7-E8 whilst 42,519 (18.09%) had F9.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The politicization of the structure of Ghana&#8217;s educational system has handicapped secondary education, the Central University President,\u00a0Professor\u00a0Kwesi\u00a0Yankah has lamented. 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