Former President John Dramani Mahama has requested that none of the nation’s schools be closed, according to Minister of Education Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum.
He asserts that the Minister’s primary duty is to assist students in getting better grades rather than to close down their schools.
Therefore, Mr. Mahama requested the Minister step down if he had no answers to the nation’s educational issues.
“Help them achieve better results and provide better education for the children, but don’t you dare close schools. The Minister for Education should resign if his only solution to a problem is to close schools,” he said.
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The former President stated that the Minister does not have the authority to close schools while speaking to branch executives of the NDC earlier on Sunday, March 19, in Adudwama, in the Ahafo Ano South East Constituency.
Recall that the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) and Principals of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions were given a warning by the Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, to improve educational outcomes or face the possibility of having their institutions shut down.
In order to prevent the majority of their students from becoming a burden on their parents and society as a result of their failure to pass the exam, Dr. Adutwum explained that a school with a consistent zero to ten percent pass rate should develop intervention programmes.
The Minister claimed that closing such schools would protect the country from the enormous financial losses that the government was suffering because of such schools.
The affected students would be transferred to other nearby schools, according to the Bosomtwe lawmaker, so they could continue their education.
Watch the video below;
Former President John Dramani Mahama says the government's decision to close down non-performing schools as announced by the Education Minister, Dr. Osei Yaw Adutwum defies logic.
He described the move as as visionless.
William Evans-Nkum reports.#MiddayLive pic.twitter.com/cgL8bVW4Qu
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