Blame NaCCA, GES for Use of Unapproved Books in Pre-tertiary Schools

If there any people and institutions to be held responsible for the use of unapproved books in Pre-Tertiary Schools, it should be NaCCA and GES. That’s very shameful.
I didn’t expect this comment from any corporate entity. What material did you provide for almost one and a half years since you change the curriculum?
We must learn to be serious in this country. By now, heads must start rolling.
NaCCA cannot shift the blame to schools as though they have discharged their duties fully.
Blame NaCCA, GES for Allowing Unapproved Books in schools
The above are sampled reactions and comments of some stakeholders of education reacting to the press release by The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) of Ghana regarding the suspected use of books not approved by the outfit.
It is not certain as to whether the press release was directed at private schools or public schools. Private schools are faced with nearly the same problem of finding approved books for teaching and learning.
If the press release was also meant for public schools as well, then the blame must even be a bigger burden on NaCCA and GES, the two bodies leading education management at the pre-tertiary level in the country.
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The question is apart from the teacher’s resource pack, curriculums, and students’ resource packs, has the government provided teachers and schools with approved books?
GES, NaCCA: Use Resource Packs and Research to teach suggestion gone bad
One will recall that when the KG1-Basic 6 new curriculum was rolled out, teachers were asked to do their research and use the teacher’s resource packs to teach learners.
Schools started using unapproved books from day one of the introductions of the new curriculum because they were challenged to use the resource packs and research. Teachers were even told they do not need textbooks before they can teach.
To a large extent, that is exactly what teachers are doing and have been doing. They had to look for supplementary materials and information anywhere possible to make their work effective and efficient.
The cry of teachers over the delay of books for various subjects and schools has not been taken seriously. Ghanaian languages are the most hard-hit as there are little to no books.
For NaCCA to complain about the use of unapproved books, one would have expected the institution to first apologize to the Ghanaian people, schools, teachers, and students for providing them a new curriculum without books. That was an unacceptable blunder.
If not for the 6th March 2021 celebration of Ghana’s independence and a unit in one of the history textbooks which portrayed Dr. Kwame Nkrumah as a dictator among others, NaCCA would have been in its hibernate mode.
Again, the blames must squarely be laid at the doorsteps of the NaCCA and GES. It is time the officials stop displaying remarkable ineptitude.
More Reactions On NaCCA and GES Unapproved Press Release
Teachers and the general public have reacted to the press release…some comments shared below.
They want to cover their ineptitude.
You people are ill have you provided us any approved books? Give us a break.
Ghana, we have a problem in the educational sector paaa, GES, NACCA, NTC and including the teacher unions.
You must provide all books in all subject areas, especially the Ghanaian Languages, to avoid these problems.
They failed to provide schools with the necessary textbooks and materials for the teachers and students to use. They knew they could not provide textbooks, why did they change the curriculum?
If Ghana is benchmarking best practices in education from Germany, UK and the US, let us clone the good in their systems. Don’t introduce it here and mess it up. Wake up! NaCCA and GES, Fall in line now!
Source: Ghanaeducation.org