A Senior Lecturer at the University for Development Studies, UDS, Dr. Michael Adongo Ayamga, has described as appalling, the caliber and quality of students who gain access to tertiary institutions.
According to him, many lecturers virtually have to babysit and pad them for them to be able to do what is required of them.
“Deterioration is an understatement. If parents were getting the kind of interface that we have with their wards, they won’t sleep at night. Because you virtually now have to babysit, then pad them and almost virtually trying them some indications of what to do.
Now, we have students who can’t take note, who can’t analyse, who can’t synthesize. Even if they have seen the questions before and you tweak it a little, you are in trouble,” he states in an interview on State of Our Nation on Dreamz FM.
He says the quality expected of students at the tertiary levels over the years has been dwindling with the emphasizes on good grades regardless of how they obtain such results.
“The quality has been dwindling to the point that it is fair to say that majority of them are not ready for university education. Heads of SHS are forced to sign performance contract that a certain number of students should pass. If they don’t, trouble. You are either transferred or demoted”.
The development economist further likens the manner in which the education system is being run to that of a drug cartel.
He equally laments a lack of uniform curriculum with very few including parents being interested in the results.
According to him, the curriculum is not preparing the students for the challenges of the future adding he is more advanced in IT and AI than his students.
