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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Collins Nana Andoh writes.

The ministry of education really needs to focus on producing quality students. If you check the country's budget, chunk of it goes into infrastructural development (in the educational sector) which is equally good but the provision of textbooks, teaching and learning materials, feeding grant and many other things; these in one way or the other cater for the quality of the current crop of students we are producing as a country. Though we need more schools we equally have to focus on the existing schools, making sure that they get all the needed logistics as well as giving the teachers what they also need.  The provision of Vehicles to the second cycle schools is in the right direction and should be backed by many other initiatives and policies especially in the case of monitoring and supervision.

Last but not the least, one other side of this whole argument has to do with the evolution of social media and telenovelas. The advent of social media has really been of enormous importance as it has relieved us of the burden and removed communication barriers making human interactions easy. However, it has become more of a bad master exposing students to a lot of unwholesome contents in the outside world.. Such contents include pornography and the dissemination of nude pictures among opposite sex and sex tapes at the expense of their books. The frequent leakage of examination papers could also be attributed to this. Much of their time is also spent on various social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Imo, Facebook etc.- an attitude that has bad implications on their academic performance. Not to mention the menace telenovelas seem to have become to learning. They have flooded our television screens taking most of student's time leaving them little time for their studies.

In the light of the aforementioned challenges facing the current educational system, I wish to bring to the notice of the minister of education to in conjunction with the right stakeholders resolve all these challenges as soon as possible. I wish to also state that the failure cannot be only blamed on an individual; hence a holistic approach is required. Therefore an emergency forum with experts in the area of education is necessary to curb this perennial fiasco in our student's examination; else the future of the country will be as bleak as ever.


By

Collins Nana Andoh
(CEO- Sir C Motivational Consult & Student Activist)

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