Replace "Ghana" with African country of your choice. Ghana Insider reports on a speech by Kwame Antwi-Frempong in:
More here“Unfortunately, Ghana’s educational system especially the Senior High School curriculum, teaches students abstract theories which has no relationship with the environment students find themselves in.”
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“After graduating from this level, they have no requisite skills or knowledge to make them make a meaningful live from the knowledge they have acquired,” he stressed.
He further explained that the current curriculum only reaches them things in the outside world. He rejected this because to him, this did not in anyway help the change, the nation and actually the course of all our developmental woes. To him, the curriculum should be 75% local content and 25% foreign content.
“Because students are not taught to solve problems in their various localities, they finish school and migrate to the big cities to look for no existing jobs.”
“If students in the Northern regions of Ghana are taught how to identify problems in the North and the type of tools they need to solve those problems, they will not pick their bags and move to Kumasi, Accra or Tamale in search of jobs.”
“Should they have been given ‘proper’ education which teaches problem solving skills, they will not even bother moving to other regions to look for work. Most people want to stay in the place of their birth but because of the curriculum, this has become an impossibility since they feel the bigger cities has systems in place for the knowledge they have acquired. They therefore go to the big cities and at the long run get disappointed and settle for low cut jobs.”
“Through a problem identification and problem solving curriculum, we can train people stay in their place of birth and even enter into agriculture at the senior high school level.”
