Mr. Kyeremeh Peter, the proprietor of KAFAPEE Preparatory school at Ayeasu Camp in the Techiman North constituency, has urged the government to provide all equipment for the new curriculum.
According to him, there are a lot of practical works in the new curriculum which demand a lot of equipment.
Story by Emmanuel koranteng. |DFM|DIKODER.COM
Former Coordinator of the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS), Dr. George Atta-Boateng says certain major changes within the system have contributed to the problems with student placement in Senior High Schools this year.
Among the contributing factors to the challenges which Dr. Atta-Boateng said could have been avoided, he highlighted the absence of a technical working committee, a supervisory body for the placement centre, which has been dissolved since 2017.
“It [the committee] is being handled by the [Education Ministry] and GES [Ghana Education Service] so they should answer. Why was that committee dissolved?”
The problems in the placement culminated in thousands of students and their parents or guardians trooping to the Black Star Square to rectify errors with their placement.
As Senior High schools reopen this week, a number of the students who qualified have not yet been placed by the Computerised Placement System for varying reason prompting renewed criticism of the process.
Others who were also placed want new placements.
Dr. Atta-Boateng also bemoaned the clearout of staff who had been trained in various data processing tasks over the last 13 years.
“As I speak to you today, with the exception of the secretary, all of them have been transferred… if you go to the secretariat now, we have new faces. It is only the secretary who is old.”
A key contributing factor to the struggles, according to him, is also the introduction of new software to manage the placement which he felt was needless.
“If we are seeing all these problems, would you call it [the new software] a solution?” he argued, adding that clarity was need on the reason for the changes.
“It is all about decision making, I am not saying I am against the change of the software. Probably they had reasons. They need to give us technical reasons because the old software was working [perfectly].”
There are thousands of students gathered at the Black Star Square in Accra seeking to rectify errors with their placement into Senior High schools.
The exercise was put in place to enable qualified students to get a place at schools they may not have chosen but have space.
As Senior High schools reopen this week, a number of the students who qualified have not yet been placed by the Computerised School Selection and Placement System (CSSPS).
The exercise has also been marred by incidents of students collapsing.
Some of them have been admitted at the Emergency Department at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ridge Hospital after they passed out.
A pregnant woman who was at the venue for her ward was also rushed to the emergency department.
Source : citinews
Students of the College of Health, Yamfo, in the Ahafo region are displeased over some alleged deceptive actions of authorities of Yamfo College of Health which they say does not have accreditation.
The students are claiming that the school’s assurance of having full accreditation from the National Accreditation Board (NAB) is spurious.
The aggrieved students also alleged that the school had made assertions of been affiliated with the University of Cape Coast and went ahead to indicate so on their website.
The Media has confronted through the list of all accredited public Nurses Training College Published on the website of the National Accreditation Board. Yamfo College of Nursing was not captured.
Story by Emmanuel koranteng
Education is the process of learning towards assisting the individuals to acquired knowledge, skills and attitude that will help him or her to improve his or her life.
Last two years the president of the republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo implemented the free S.H.S policy in Ghana to assist our young people to acquired knowledge and skills.
The traders in interaction with DFM reporter said, the president Nana Addo and the NPP government has done very well for implementing this policy, May God bless them all.
Another trader also lamented that because of the free s.h.s policy she has been able to save money to cater for the rest of her children so she thanks Nana Addo. They then appealed to the government to do something about the prices of food commodities.
BY: Theresah A. B. Mensah|DIKODER.COM|D FM