Senior High school students in Ghanaian will from 2017 study Arabic as a compulsory subject.
This was announced by the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, when he interacted with the Muslim Community at Nsawam Zongo as part of his campaign tour of the Eastern Region.
“President Mahama has agreed that from 2017 Senior High School students will study Arabic like they do in the English language and we will introduce it at the basic level in 2018 and make it examinable.”
Julius Debrah added that the Wenchi Teacher training college has started a programme to train such teachers.
“The good news is that for the first time we have a teacher training college in Wenchi that will train our Arabic teachers to be posted to other schools after completion.”
He also announced several policies to be introduced by President Mahama if given another term in office to enrich the lives of Ghanaians.
“This is not all, under the Islamic education unit, we will have Islamic Junior High Schools and Islamic Junior Technical institutions so that graduates from these schools can be employed in other Arabic countries with the certificates they would acquire. Who will you trust to deliver, is it the one who is offering you fish or the one showing you how to fish?”.
The Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah also reiterated calls for the Muslim community in particular to vote massively for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its candidates.
Government to strictly enforce teaching in local languages
The announcement comes on the back of moves by the Education Ministry to begin the strict enforcement of the use of local languages as the sole medium of instruction in basic schools in Ghana.
The Education Minister, Professor Naana Opoku Agyeman in June 2016 indicated that only pupils from kindergarten one to primary three will be taught mainly with the local languages.
98% of class 2 pupils can’t read English
A research conducted in Ghana in 2014 revealed that 98 percent of primary two pupils in basic schools can neither read nor understand English or any Ghanaian language properly.
This was contained in the “Early Grade Reading Assessment” report commissioned by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for primary two pupils.
Source: Citifmonline
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Soon Islamic religious studies would be compulsory in Schools.Evangelical Christians promoting strongly Islam in the country. Hmmmmm
This is ***barred word*** talk, in the year 2016,we are still offering type-writing at SHS level and type-writing and shorthand at polytechnics. what advantage will ghana gain by learning arabic? our students are still struggling with English and maths, what is the meaning of the various local languages we have. tired of NDC and its lies.
BARAWO MAHAMA HAS NO GBEWA TO CALL HIS VIOLENT MINISTERS AND FOOLSOLDIERS TO ORDER BECOS THAT IS PART OF THE PLAN TO RIG THE ELECTIONS. WITH HELP FROM BRIBED CHARLOTTE OSEI NDC PLANS TO SNATCH BALLOT BOXES, FILL THEM WITH THEIR ALREADY-THUMBPRINTED BALLOTS, BEAT UP AND ATTACK THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS SO THAT PEOPLE WILL BE SCARED TO GO OUT AND VOTE. BUT THEY LIE BAD! INSHA ALLAHU GHANA PEOPLE WILL FACE NDC BOOT FOR BOOT AND KICK OUT BARAWO MAHAMA AND HIS GANG OF KILAS OUT.
I don't understand why politicians keep deceiving Zongo Communities. Again, I don't understand why Muslim scholars are quiet over fake promises. It sounds good to make Arabic a compulsory subject, but where're the Arabic Teachers? Why can't we tell the truth for once? Someone says one factory-one dam. Another one says Arabic to be introduced as compulsory subject in SHS. Anyway. Ghana is for all of us.
Haha It's sad we have ***barred word*** ruling out dear Country. How well are we doing in French since our neighboring countries are French speaking countries. ***barred word***!!!!!!!
Please we the people in NDC are fortunate to have two candidates on the ballot paper that is John mahama and Rawling's wife Nana konadu so on the election day as we vote for mahama let's also vote for Nana konadu so that if one doesn't win,the other will win.please let's spread this message to our fellow NDC members.
Neighbours are Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina: why not French then instead of Arabic?. And that ***barred word*** with the compulsory Chinese too at the University! May Amadiohia curse NDC and their ***barred word*** policies.
This is a joke..U cant instruct my kid to study Arabic by force what is he/she going to do with it? Please if u guys dont have any better thing to say keep mute and dont bring any nasty situation in Ghana, thats all what u do instigating the lowest denominators with unecessary and divisive thoughts i dont think even Saudi Arabia forces people to study Arabic. ***barred word***
The same thing led to the boko haram insurgency in Nigeria so do we really have to do this? It might be an agreement btw the ndc government and the boko haram and failure to fulfill the agreement may lead to insulgency
ALLAH AKBAR....THIS WAS EXACTLY WHAT THE NPP DID WHEN RAWLINGS WAS DECLARING 2 MUSLIM HOLIDAYS