Deputy Education Minister, Yaw Osei Adutwum, has defended the posting of ‘weak’ students to category ‘A’ schools.
Dr Adutwum told patrons at the Graphic Business/Stanbic Bank Breakfast Meeting, Monday, that when the ‘weaker’ students who are mostly from the deprived areas and the public schools, are all sent to the so-called weaker schools, it just repeats the same circle.
He explained that because elite schools have all the necessary resources like experienced teachers and adequate equipment like labs, they are in a better position to improve the ‘weak students’.
The Deputy Minister was reacting to concerns that the Free Senior High School policy by the Nana Akufo-Addo-led government had led to unqualified students infiltrating so-called big schools.
“…old students call and they are angry ‘why should you send a student with aggregate 30 to my famous school?’ And I say to them why not?…So when you talk about access and you talk about the quality you cannot, forget about equity,” he said.
Speaking on the theme, Financing free quality education in Ghana – Sustainable funding options, the Deputy Minister noted that it is expedient to invest in the students and they will, in turn, invest their gained knowledge in the economy.
“The best way of funding education is to fund things that are critical and on things that can improve learning culture in schools after you guarantee access and make sure the people you are educating are the ones who will help improve the economy,” he said.
He added that when that is done, the state will not worry about funding for the economy because then, “the innovative way of doing things…and the creativity they [students] bring is what will improve the economy”.
Source: myjoyonline.com
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Have some issue on Pop Johns Secondary school there ..the head ministries correct 230 gh from each and everyone there ..dont even understood this ..just want to know justice ?
This man is so far the best education minister this nation has had.He make absolute sense in whatever he says,he's right this time too.He'd forever written his name in the golden records the best around.Kudos Dr.Adutwum.
NDC as a so-called socialist party should have been the ones doing this but because they don't understand their own ideology they are joining the ***barred word*** chorus to condemn the government for far-reaching initiative. How do you bridge the gap between the poor and the rich?
Don't you see that there is so much thinking in what the Deputy Minister is saying? Yet those who are believed to know better have lost their reasoning. You don't start a project and expect to land at the quality envisage, promptly. It is a process. What is important is you get started and then you build on by correcting the difficulties you encounter; with the aim of achieving the results and quality, you desire. Unlike NDC-Administration which embarks on cosmetic projects during election times, ostensibly to bring the Dubai type of bridges to Ghana, but the main purpose is to win votes. Prioritizing projects is by the NDC is a strange word when it is not going to fetch votes. That is the popular mantra of the NDC, thus do everything, thus, lie, insult, kill, and make vicious propaganda to get the political power in the manner of kleptocracy until elections become superfluous, then at the end of the day you have the National assets at your disposal, you can do and undo,and the democracy becomes meaningless. The FHS is more or less a long-term project and will take some time before it really bears the fruits we desire. So you can forget it if you can't entrust it with a Government which shares the same vision and determination beyond winning elections.