Like Nigeria Ghanaians Bemoan Falling Education Standards

isaac

July 25, 2014 2:30 PM

Like in Nigeria, the education sector in neighbouring Ghana is also biting the dust.

A journalist friend in Ghana sent this photo when we were chatting the other day and I complained about the falling standard of education in Nigeria and how Nigerian students troop into Ghana to pursue their education.

But my friend disabused my mind on the fact that the educational standard might be higher here, stressing that most of the universities Nigerian students study in are regarded as third grade schools who are only doing busness.

He narrated that right from the primary to tertiary levels of education in his country, it is not uhuru.

This is what the guy sent to accompany the photo:

I have written several articles about how disappointed Ghana has become in fact and in the eyes of its own citizens, both home and abroad, and now I feel like there is no point in keeping up with these write-ups.

This is because; I keep pointing out the same set of problems, perpetuated by the same gang of people in charge of affairs, without anything changing.

I was sent a link to an article written by ‘The Finder’ newspaper which mentions that there are still schools in Ghana where pupils sit on piled-up blocks to learn, and I asked myself, so this is 21st century Ghana…right?

And to think that this is the same country with Ministers driving in “excessively” expensive cars, the same country that flew millions of dollars to Brazil makes me wonder if we ever understand the concept of having priorities as people.

According to the report, the condition in which pupils at Amenam Local Authority Primary and Junior High School study hoping that the education they receive will ensure a better future for them is beyond deplorable.

The six-block classroom is built of clay. Part of the roof has been ripped off, the effects of severe weather. Inside the classrooms, there are just about a few broken desks, the paper added.

Even pupils in the kindergarten department, between three and five years, do not have seats at all. They have to carry kitchen stools to school in order to study. Those who cannot afford the kitchen stools sit and write on pile-up cement blocks.

So you can see it is not only in Nigeria that we complain about these things.

isaac