Ghana Government To Introduce Teacher Monitoring Programmes In Schools

The Executive President of Meridian Pre-University, Mr Tetteh Nettey, has expressed worry at the low performance of BECE candidates for the 2011 examination. According to him, this year, only 46.93 per cent of the 375,280 candidates who sat for the BECE met the criteria for selection and placement into Senior High Schools and Technical Institutions which means that 53 per cent of the candidates failed. Mr Nettey has therefore called on Government to introduce Teacher Monitoring Programmes (TMP) in schools that will pair experienced, successful and new recruited teachers to ensure they students do better and excel in examinations. He made these observations at a PRESS conference in Accra. It is worrying for a developing nation like Ghana to have numbers as huge as almost 200,000 pupils failing the BECE; with these statistics, it’s economically untenable for the future of our country, he noted. Mr Nettey indicated that the country must accept the fact that the future is inextricably and indivisibly linked to the level of education of children that has to do with both the privileged and under-privileged, adding education is not to be joked wih. As To How These Problems Can Be Solved, The Executive President Said Research Must Be Made Into How New Learning Ways Can Be Created For So-Called Difficult Subjects Such As Mathematics And Science By Using Modern Tools And Gadgets. He said the Ghana Education Service (GES) must use assessments that can improve achievement by including research, scientific investigation and problem-solving strategies that pupils will need to compete in a 21st Century Knowledge-Based Economy. Mr Nettey stressed that parents and guardians must acknowledge that there is no Educational policy that can substitute the role of a guardian and as such urged parents to play an active part in the educational development of their wards. West African Examination Council (WAEC), he said, must intensify their educational outreach programmes on general examination processes as well as what constitute examination malpractices.