Non-Performing SHSs to be closed down – affected students to be redistributed – Dr Adutwum
Non-Performing SHSs to be closed down ?
The Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has called on the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and Principals of Technical and Vocational Education and Training TVET Institutions to improve their educational outcomes or stand the risk of having their institutions closed down.
He stated that intervention programs should be put together for schools with a consistent zero to ten per cent pass rate to ensure that majority of their students will find opportunity for further studies adding that closing the schools down would help save the nation the huge financial loses being incurred by the government.
Dr. Adutwum made the call over the weekend when he addressed the members of the Conference of Assisted Senior High Schools (CHASS) and Principals of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions in Kumasi on Saturday and Sunday.
The meeting which is an annual event was to share with them current state of education in the country, discuss new development in the sector and answer questions on issues affecting them.
The meeting which were in two batches saw all SHS heads attending on Saturday while Principals of TVET institutions across the country also attended on Sunday.
Dr Adutwum indicated that non performing schools would be closed down and affected students would be redistributed to nearby schools for them to continue their education and become relevant to the nation.
The Minister lauded the Heads for their roles in the transformation of education in the country and pledged to continue providing the needed resources and urged them to work very hard to ensure that they attained the right results.
The Deputy Minister for Education, in-charge of TVET, Ms Gifty Twum-Ampofo, MP, reminded the Principals to ensure that students were well equipped for the job market and also let the schools pass through them and not the students passing through the school.
She also urged them to spend time enhancing their capacity through reading relevant courses and books to support their effort at getting the best training for their students.
Presentations were made by the leadership of the Ghana Education Service (GES), National Education Leadership Institute (NELI), Free Senior High School Secretariat, Funds and Procurement Management Unit (FPMU), and the Ghana TVET Service.
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This move by the educational minister is in the best interest of the state I think.
What I want is to look at and out for in this article is, whose cause is it that some schools don’t do well?
Do all the schools sit for the same exams?
Are the educational resources equally distributed?
Why did you even put the schools into categories in the first place?
Do you know that, based on the categories, some schools have a category of students who can not even write their names, left alone constructing formal sentences?
And in some schools, only the very bright who can even pass exams without tuition are placed?
Infact my questions can continue and continue in order not to bore u guys, let me conclude by saying that, our entire educational system needs restructuring but we are in a funny country, where we only have capable leadership in opposition and whenever power is given to them they goof
Please, can honourable come again and tell Ghanaians why the school are not performing?
What a country?
You should be fired !!!
The system reviews upon which the Minister is allegedly recommending a shutdown of nonperforming schools is wrong in the first place.instead the ministry should look at what is exactly is the primary function of these ‘categorizing ‘ school has given and the possibility of restructuring these systems or scrapping out that system to give equal opportunities to all students no matter how good his or her results stands to be.For all we do is even downplaying the minds of these individual students.All these decisions violate humans right justice and its unconstitutional in the first place.