The General Secretary of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), Michael Ayuraboya, has noted that the educational system as it is, is in a sorry state.
Speaking to Dreamz News on the side-lines of an event to mark the 25th anniversary of NAGRAT, Mr. Ayuraboya decried how the focus is on using education for political gains not on the gains proper investment in education can bring to the country.
“It’s a sorry state, we have to say it as it is. Education will always be a political matter but it has become over politicized where instead of looking at what we can do to salvage education, we focus more on how can we get political gain out of it and that has been very bad,” he stated.
Describing the Free SHS program as a good program worth implementing, he was emphatic that the policy requires a lot of changes to make it effective.
He further expressed shock at how critical learning materials are not available even at the basic level yet government is distributing tablets.
“We cannot understand how critical teaching learning materials aren’t available yet we can afford millions of cedis to but tablet for students, the tablet that you drop and that ends it. And I hear they say there will no longer be text books, Ghana hasn’t reached there yet”.
