Many Students across the country wanted to get out of the Universities or Colleges as well as Polytechnics gainfully employed,without actually going through the necessary orientation on the courses they choose to sturdy at their various Institutions.
This article features only Students reading Basic Education at the Colleges of Education and the Universities to obtain their respective diplomas.
It is also not meant to speak ill about any institution in Ghana but to help bring prospective students’ attention to certain issues of relevance to them when deciding on their academic future.
Colleges of Education
The Colleges of Education,formally called the Teacher Training Colleges until 2004/05 academic year were awarding certificates to their students and was referred to as Post secondary until the introduction of the Diploma In Basic Education.
The Introduction of The diploma also lead to the change of its status from post secondary to Colleges of Education and were considered as Tertiary institutions.
A situation that led to the ‘swapping ‘ of its allowance system for the students loan was meant to stop the quota system which prevented qualified students from being admitted into the various Colleges.
Until October 2016,the tutors at the Colleges were still under the Ghana Education service but attained Tertiary status after agitation from the teachers.
The Colleges of Education were built with the purpose of training more teachers to take up teaching positions in the public Basic Schools. For this reason its products(teachers) are being posted directly after College by the Ghana Education Service without waiting for application from the newly trained teachers.
This relieved the trainees from all the stress of writing applications which may or may not be considered.
The Universities
The University is a higher Educational Institution where Basic Education is also studied.At the University,the Students also go through the same three year course to obtain their Diplomas in Basic Education.They take loans but are not given feeding grant.
The students after Completion needed to apply for the job,which is already given to Trainees from Colleges automatically after College.
The main reason why students from the University are not being posted is that the Universities are autonomous and will not work with Ghana Education Service which is a perceived political institution under the Education Ministry.
The Universities felt that the GES is for Pre -tertiary institutions and so could not work in line with their procedures.
Until, the GES works with the Universities to begin posting DBE students,the unemployment rate will continue to be a ‘sweet’ political talk of politicians which will yield no result.
By: Ellis Ferdinand Founder/Education Awards Ghana Blogger /EducationGhana.net
Source:EducationGhana.net