Education Minister Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has warned that basic and second cycle school heads who record 90 percent or more failure in their final exams will be sacked.
He says the persistent poor performance of the students in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) is unacceptable demanding that the school heads justify their continued stay in their positions.
Addressing heads of senior high schools (SHS) in Kumasi as part of a two-day familiarisation tour to the Ashanti Region he emphasised that the Ministry would not continue to accommodate school heads who superintend over consistent poor performance.
Dr Prempeh noted that in public schools, the heads have justified their continued stay in office over the performance of the students when the same cannot be said for the private schools whose continued operation is dependent on the performance of their students in the WASSCE.
"Any school head who superintends over a failure of over 90% cannot be allowed to continue operation without accounting to the Ghana Education Service (GES).
Last September, the Director of General of the GES, Jacob A. Kor, lauded the exceptional improvement in the total scores of candidates for the 2016 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results after it was released.
The West African Examination Council statistics indicated that a total score of 600 being the maximum raw score in six subjects, 3,994 candidates got more than 500, which according to Mr Kor has never happened before in the history of BECE in Ghana.
However, the WASSCE results were nothing to write home about as the then presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo criticising the Mahama administration after more than half of candidates who wrote the exam failed.
The results showed that the students who sat for the 2016 exams failed in the core subjects of Maths, English, Science and Social Studies.
About 32 percent of the students obtained the pass grade of A to C6 in the core subjects and 19.82 percent of students obtained D7-E8 which most tertiary institutions consider as a fail score. About 38.10 percent of students had F9.
Candidate Akufo-Addo said the development has made him sad adding the only way to put the country on the path of development is by changing president John Mahama.
The minister working to prosecute the change agenda of the President said those who fail out of the system end up as social deviants who come back to haunt society.
Dr Opoku Prempeh said the Service would give the schools all the support and help they need but they would demand accountability once the results come.
"We would also distribute DVD's on students preparation for the WASSCE," adding "it is our hope that with the provision of support and management orientation that you are going to receive, heads and teacher will be able to guide their students to improve their performance in WASSCE 2017."
He disclosed that the GES has already been directed to start a school management discussion to start introducing courses for those who are going into management.
Source: adomonline.com
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Am sure if we don't make up our minds before reading we can be objective. The Minister said the support and help needed would be given. So if your school's performance is below standard cause u didnt get the needed support or other reasons, you justify. This shouldn't be a big deal. We can disagree without insults
hei Napo ka wano tum wate, what thing be this one too, i beg dont make m,e descend on u miserably kora cos am not in that mood, u go sack them for what reason, do they handle the minds of the students or they operate their IQ's, dont push us to drive u away to ur field/ profession cos u know nothing on this field so look for people with that knowledge to educate u on that and provide the resources than talking with no sense. wo b3 hw3 yie paaa wate
Boss, Focus on what you can do and stop this empty threat. Why don't you quit instead. After all you are the minister of the sector. Don't start this way please. You are talking too much, aba! first is the police PRO and one other in Ashanti, Second is this bombshell. Stop it!
CLAP FOR NAPO! CLAP FOR NPP!! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUT MEDICAL DOCTOR INSTEAD OF EDUCATIONIST AS A MINISTER OF EDUCATION. NAPO, WAKE UP AND SET KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS TO ASSESS AND APPRAISE THE HEADTEACHERS. YOU CANNOT THROW THIS GARBAGE INTO THE AIR WITH MALICIOUS INTENT. WHEN YOUR POLICIES FAIL WHICH YOU KNOW IT WILL, YOU ARE SETTING UP THE HEADS AS SCAPEGOATS.
mr minister why not u quitting as head of the sector.
Provide all the resources for success then,including paying teachers very well. Look at the salary of one minister:GHC 22,500 with cars,furnished accommodation,entertainment allowance,and girlfriend allowance;and yet politicians fail this nation and steal in addition to those salaries. After that they take ridiculous ex-gratias. Which teacher or worker is any where closer to those "entitlements"? Don't threaten teachers. Resource schools and pay teachers very well,and the success of the students will follow certainly
...habaa...is the head teacher going to put 'stuff' in the students head? good initiative but sounds ridiculous....rather set up key performance indicator...if the support is there and the students do not know their objectives, why the sack?....