Education in Ghana from nursery up to an undergraduate degree level takes about 20 years. Most children begin their education
at the age of three or four starting from nursery school to kindergarten , then primary school junior high school, senior high school, and finally university.
Education!Education! What at all is it? I believe your guess is as good as mine. To educate or education I think has been cliched many at times it may have lost its relevance or whatnot. However its importance can never been underestimated. Every individual, group has something to learn or to be educated about be it in school, at home or wherever. However this blog’s attention is on the formal aspect of education addressing the positive and negative thus benefits, challenges, solutions to improve our structure of the education system and as you may well agree with me every country especially its economy will thrive on its backdrop of its majority of citizens being educated and very well at that. Every individual starts the education ladder from a start to ------ well I nearly said to the end but we have learnt there is virtually no end to education.
Education!Education! What at all is it? I believe your guess is as good as mine. To educate or education I think has been cliched many at times it may have lost its relevance or whatnot. However its importance can never been underestimated. Every individual, group has something to learn or to be educated about be it in school, at home or wherever. However this blog’s attention is on the formal aspect of education addressing the positive and negative thus benefits, challenges, solutions to improve our structure of the education system and as you may well agree with me every country especially its economy will thrive on its backdrop of its majority of citizens being educated and very well at that. Every individual starts the education ladder from a start to ------ well I nearly said to the end but we have learnt there is virtually no end to education.
( A BASIC SCHOOLS BLOCK)
With particular attention to the Ghana’s educational system, one is likely or expected to start from the creche, kindergarten through the primary and so on, but for this particular post we take a look at the basic thus the primary and the junior high school (JHS) system, basically everything we think of with regards to this level of education. Like every construction especially building a house, the foundation needs to be very strong and quality with emphasis on these two adjectives, likewise the primary and junior or high level, it is a level where, if students are not particular taught certain things they seem not to have a grasp of it even at a higher level due to the poor foundation they had at the basic school level. Well trained teachers should be employed and not just any person who can just read and write. Looking at JHS specifically, one issue that has popped up is whether candidates who fail the Basic Certificate Examination (BECE) should be given the chance to resist the failed papers as is done in the secondary school level
With particular attention to the Ghana’s educational system, one is likely or expected to start from the creche, kindergarten through the primary and so on, but for this particular post we take a look at the basic thus the primary and the junior high school (JHS) system, basically everything we think of with regards to this level of education. Like every construction especially building a house, the foundation needs to be very strong and quality with emphasis on these two adjectives, likewise the primary and junior or high level, it is a level where, if students are not particular taught certain things they seem not to have a grasp of it even at a higher level due to the poor foundation they had at the basic school level. Well trained teachers should be employed and not just any person who can just read and write. Looking at JHS specifically, one issue that has popped up is whether candidates who fail the Basic Certificate Examination (BECE) should be given the chance to resist the failed papers as is done in the secondary school level
Most junior high school students are not
given the right career guidance in terms of the course and school they choose
when going into the secondary level and this may affect the individual. A
student may be very good in a particular subject even though it may not be his
or her interest and would not want to pursue further in that area but rather
other area and instead of the teacher encouraging the student, they end up
forcing him or her to do something which is not of the student’s interest.
Another issue that pokes its nose whenever issues
of education are being discuss with regards to the basic level is the ’shift
system’ thus students go for class from morning to the afternoon and the second
batch from afternoon to evening. It really does affect productivity with
studies done in a rush and most student are really not taking their lesson
seriously, even though efforts have been made to abolish this system, enough
work still need to be done to make student studying at this level study in
comfort. This problem is quite particular with the public school.
Obviously
this post cannot talk about everything about basic level of education with
specifics being on primary and junior high level. Therefore I urge readers to
continue the discus at where ever you are to raise the standard. However to
give you a gist of the next post we look at the differences and similarities or
better still how to bridge the gap between basic school at the public and
private level.
