{"id":53054,"date":"2014-10-02T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=53054"},"modified":"2014-10-02T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T14:38:25","slug":"reversal-of-4-year-shs-disappointing-professor-djangmah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/reversal-of-4-year-shs-disappointing-professor-djangmah\/","title":{"rendered":"Reversal of 4 year SHS disappointing &#8211; Professor Djangmah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former Director-General of the Ghana Education Service, Professor Jerome Djangmah has described as disappointing, the reversal of the four year Senior High School (SHS) duration to three years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, the reversal did not help the country in anyway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The duration of the educational system of the SHS was extended from three to four years under the erstwhile\u00a0John Agyekum Kufuor\u2019s administration as part of the 2007 educational reforms, but the\u00a0ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government\u00a0overturned it in 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;yxRheViBrQ5ZxHXIwarPvGnkE3AfCkrb&#8221;]The decision to revert to the previous system was met\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/02\/28\/politicization-of-education-system-must-stop-gnaps\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">with criticisms<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> from stakeholders while others also supported the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The West African Examination Council (WAEC) also did not organize the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in 2010 but did so for two batches in 2011 due to the change in the duration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at a forum organized by the Occupy Ghana Movement and IMANI Ghana, Prof Djangmah insisted that the change was not in the interest of the nation saying \u201cI was very disappointed when the four years thing was reversed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cIt didn\u2019t make sense at all,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/attendants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53062\" alt=\"attendants\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/attendants.jpg\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/attendants.jpg 675w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/attendants-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe only thing the government should have done by the time was to say the top schools that has no problem with teaching could do the three years and then the majority of the children, that really where my heart lies, should be allowed to do the four years. 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