Ashanti Regional Chairman for All People’s Congress (APC) Dr. Ahmed Kassim Sisago has described as laborious, backward and primitive, the new directive issued by the Ministry of Education that all examination questions should be written on the board.
He is of the view that this new decision imposed on public schools will drag Ghana’s educational system back into the old system of teaching, cautioning that if stakeholders fail to stage a protest against the move, NPP government will soon collapse the academic system.
The outspoken chairman stated that he is disturbed over why the Ministry of Education failed to consider a digital system of examination writing as an option as practiced by other African countries.
Government he challenged should have introduced and invested some funds into the aforesaid system so that public teachers instead of the blackboard will digitize examination questions and that students will from their individual computers answer the set questions.
This he stated will cushion ICT training within the various academic institutions as students solve questions via computer.
Dr. Ahmed Sisago said in an exclusive interview with this journalist that the Minister of Education Hon Matthew Opoku Prempeh and his team are products of an analog generation who are highly deficient of digital ideas hence their inability to choose a digital approach for examination writing.
The reintroduction of what he noted as an out of date academic practice according to Dr. Ahmed describes NPP as a short sighted political party which is in to shipwreck Ghana’s educational system.
Source: Thepressradio.com /Enock Akonnor
