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| NDC lashes out at the NPP’s management of the education sector |
10/7/2005 |
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The Opposition National Democratic Congress is asking government to channel a chunk of what would be realized from Ghana’s debt forgiveness into educational development.
The party believes additional investment in the sector is necessary to halt what it calls the current confusion in the sector.
Addressing a news conference on Thursday in Accra, General Secretary of the main opposition party Bede Ziedeng said the problems plaguing the education sector exposes the incompetence of the NPP administration.
He catalogued a series of issues, which he said indicates the Kufuor administration’s ineptitude.
Mr. Bede Ziedeng listed the unrests GNAT and POTAG, implementation of the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education - FCUBE and the Computerized Selection Placement System for selecting fresh students to the senior secondary school level as issues that have thrown the education sector into disarray.
Mr. Ziedeng said the FCUBE concept has run into problems because there was not enough consultation on how the policy should be implemented.
He said the euphoria that heralded the realization of the policy has been short-lived because of the implementation difficulties.
Mr. Bede took the journalists through what measures the NDC would have taken to ensure that the policy was implemented smoothly.
Mr. Bede Ziedeng also took a swipe at the government on the recent difficulties some prospective senior secondary students faced as a result of the implementation of the Computerized Selection Placement System for SSS students.
The NDC believes the problems have also come about because there was not enough consultation.
The party is asking the government to channel a chunk of what would be realized from Ghana’s debt forgiveness into educational development to deal with the problems that have hit the sector in recent times.
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