The Team Leader for “Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL), Robin Todd has indicated that Ghana does not have a bad Education System.
Robin Todd made this Remark at the Opening Ceremony of the Challenge Fund End of Project Learning Event in Koforidua on Wednesday July 11, 2018.
According to him, he has worked in eleven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and can say that Ghana’s system compares favourably with all of them,describing the Education system as being well organised and comprehensive.
Meanwhile,he later lamented, that repeated surveys and studies show that Ghanaians are failing in the most important aspects of education- learning outcomes.
“Too many children in this country are leaving primary school without the ability to read and write to the required standards.”he said.
Robin Todd stated that too many children are failing to gain the educational foundation which will enable them to achieve their potential in life.
“We should aspire for more. We should aspire to better. Change is possible. This is the message behind the Government’s current education reforms. We are aspiring towards a genuinely world-class education system.”he indicated.
About T-TEL
Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) Ghana is a four-year Government of Ghana Programme supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
Through an investment of £17 million, T-TEL is supporting the country’s 46 public Colleges of Education on their path to becoming tertiary “centres of excellence” and producing high quality teaching graduates who can ensure our children succeed at school.
From October this year all new entrants to the teaching profession will be required to study Bachelors of Education degrees offered by Colleges of Education, initially in affiliation with the University of Cape Coast and after one year of implementation with other public Universities.
The curriculum offered in these Colleges of Education will represent a significant departure from previous practice.
5 public universities – University of Cape Coast, University of Education Winneba, University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology and the University of Development Studies have designed new Bachelors of Education degrees aligned with the National Teachers’ Standards (NTS) and the National Teacher Education Curriculum Framework (NTECF) and submitted these to the National Accreditation Board (NAB) for certification.
Source :EducationGhana.net
