{"id":78919,"date":"2015-01-03T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=78919"},"modified":"2015-01-02T18:40:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T18:40:30","slug":"change-ghanas-educational-system-ngo-to-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/01\/change-ghanas-educational-system-ngo-to-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Change Ghana’s educational system\u00a0– NGO to gov’t"},"content":{"rendered":"
A Non-governmental Organization in the Western Region,\u00a0Interlekt Ghana has urged government to as a matter of urgency change the country\u2019s educational system.<\/p>\n
According to the NGO, it has identified that the current system will not bring the educational change Ghanaians desires.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News,\u00a0<\/strong>the Lead Executive at Interlekt Ghana, Ken Kpodo\u00a0expressed worries at the poor reading rate of students at the national levels saying, \u201cAt the national level we have only two percent of peoples in basic education who can read fluently with understanding and the statistics of trained teachers in these regions is only 44 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”waVUPwozONkJ51h6oyPBUKoDhVC9UE6x”]He argued that the country is unprepared to revolutionize the educational sector and therefore encourage the government to emulate good examples from foreign countries to improve its educational systems.<\/p>\n \u201c98 percent of the monies invested in education are used to pay salaries so we don\u2019t have anything left to improve anything in the system, so we need to set a goal like some Western world countries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n This is not the first time concerns have been raised about the standard of\u00a0educational in Ghana.<\/p>\n Ghana\u2019s education system was in September 2014 described as below international standards<\/strong><\/a><\/span> at all levels by the World Economic Forum (WEF).<\/p>\n A survey carried out by the Ghana Education Service last year also revealed that 98 percent of primary two pupils<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in basic schools can neither read nor understand English or any Ghanaian language properly.<\/p>\n This was contained in the \u201cEarly Grade Reading Assessment\u201d report commissioned by the GES for primary two pupils.<\/p>\n