The Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum has been explaining that the multiple reforms the government is currently carrying out are necessary to improve the standard of education in Ghana.
The Minister cited infrastructure development, teacher training, targeted instruction, parent engagement, textbook reforms, training of headteachers as some of these reforms carrying out to make the education sector more better.
Speaking at a press conference organised by the Ministry of Information on Sunday, Dr. Adutwum stated that “If you see me doing eight things, don’t think I am doing one too many things, because if I don’t, the outcomes will not show.”
The minister has been championing new reps with the most being the Science, Technology Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education.
Some of these reforms, like the National Standardised Test, have been heavily criticized by some stakeholders in the sector.
However, Dr. Adutwum has strongly defended his actions saying that the reforms are critical to his vision for education in Ghana.
“If I say I want to change the education system in this country and I leave out STEM, our education will not produce 21st-century outcomes.”
“If you know something about education, the sense of urgency, when it hits, takes you in a different direction, but you have to work with a team. Each will do their part. TVET will do its part. GES will do its part. Everybody will do their part.”
He appealed to the stakeholders to support him transform the education system in Ghana.
“All of them have to reinvent themselves for us to get the kind of education system the good people of Ghana expect from us. If we don’t, we perish.”
By Vincent Kubi