The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has
described the recent overall result of the 2016 West African Senior School
Certificate Examination (WASSCE) as disappointing and appalling.
The President of NAGRAT, Christian Addai Poku, has
attributed the failure to lack of funding in the education sector.
“The major
part of the problem has to do with funding for education where you build the
school. Do you have enough infrastructures in that school, furniture, library
stocked with books? Do you have teaching and learning materials that teachers
will not come and cry about chalk, teachers will not come and cry about other
teaching and learning materials all over? If we have them we will get the pass,
if we do not have them, we get a failure,”
he stated.
On whether the argument that the four years system is
re-introduced, NAGRAT said, government needs to expand and provide adequate
resources.
Mr. Addai emphasized that “the
decision of the three or four year system is for the technocrat to decide and
not government, where they do a study and come out with trend analysis of the
four years.”
He added that the three and four years system should be
compared to see which one is best, looking at the resource constraints the
country finds itself in.
“Vocational
training is not for school drop outs, it is very important that all students
pass their Senior High School (SHS) examinations very well,” Mr. Addai concluded.
Hamidu Abdul-Lateef.
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