Ghana: Education - Naana's Point

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"My hunch is that, sometimes, we overcrowd the curriculum. We teach too many things too soon, as if, in one year, the whole subject can be covered. It doesn't have to be that way." -Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, Minister of Education. (Quoted in NEW STATESMAN, Monday, September 1, 2014). "Study by the Ministry of Education points to Science and Mathematics as the major problem."- Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, Minister of Education. (Ibid) "Quality education is not so much about access to textbooks, but the input of teachers." -Professor Jane Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, Minister of Education. (Quoted in the GHANAIAN TIMES, Tuesday, September 2, 2014.)

Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, Minister of Education, reportedly made those above-quoted observations at a Colloquium organised by the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and Citi FM. If the Minister of Education made those sensible observations, why does she continue to preside over the mess in which education is, especially, but not exclusively, at the basic and second cycle level?

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