An educationist and a publisher, Elliot Agyare, has called for a policy to prioritize reading skills at the basic level of education in the counrtry to halt the decline in education.<\/p>\n
He said reading must be made a priority to improve the quality of education in Ghana which some have described as \u201cgoing from bad to worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cReading is key, you learn to read first before you read to learn. We have to put that in perspective, that\u2019s how it works. How do you begin to read a science book, how do you look at an instruction in mathematics, how do you begin to look at RME. Reading is key. Frankly, I think we have to focus on that because that is the foundation on which everything else is built,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n
Mr. Agyare\u2019s suggestion follows the release of\u00a0 a survey published by the National Education Assessment (NEA), which shows that about 98% of pupils in primary two cannot read or understand the English or a Ghanaian language.<\/p>\n
The Minister of Education, Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, last week directed basic school teachers to desist from using English as a sole language in teaching children in primary one to three.<\/p>\n
She said: “when we teach children in languages that they do not understand, teaching and learning do not take place and frustration begins to build.”<\/p>\n
However, Mr. Elliot Agyare, CEO of smartline publishing limited, and a former head of the Ghana Publishers Association commenting on the NEA report on the Citi Breakfast show <\/b>called for the provision of books and adequate resources to enable the school children adopt the habit of reading right from an early age.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cIf the children don\u2019t have any\u00a0 book how can they read,\u201d he opined.<\/p>\n
For his part, Philip Davidson, a retired educationist and a literacy consultant called on the GES to increase efforts aimed at addressing the lapses in the educational system.<\/p>\n
By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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