The acting Director General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Aheto Tsegah has downplayed assertions that the preference for most of Ghana\u2019s public schools have dwindled.<\/p>\n
He said the notion that parents are sending their wards to the private schools because of a vote of no confidence in the public ones does not hold.<\/p>\n
A lot of private schools both at the secondary and tertiary levels are springing up and they are challenging the quality and excellence of public institutions.<\/p>\n
A large number of Ghanaian parents are sending their children to these private\u00a0<\/span>institutions\u00a0due to the increasing perception that these private\u00a0schools deliver quality education as compared to the public ones.<\/span><\/p>\n But speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong>, Mr. Tsegah dismissed these assertions saying, “the fact that parents are opting for the private schools doesn\u2019t mean the public school systems are bad.\u201d<\/p>\n He insisted that public schools are still delivering quality education, since \u201cquality is not about the number of programmes that you[private schools] run but the quality and content of the programmes”<\/p>\n Commenting on the fallen standards of education in the Central Region and the lack of desire by children in the region for education, the Director General of the GES confirmed\u00a0\u201ca lot of children along that line, just go to school and look out through the window and when the boat comes they jump out .”<\/p>\n He attributed the poor school attendance by pupils in the region to a lack of supervision, adding that\u00a0the problem is prevalent in the region because “most of the teachers are not controlled.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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