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Govt to reduce elective subjects of students who cannot read, write

The central government in due course will limit the elective subjects studied by Junior High School (JHS) students in the country who cannot read or write, the Minister for Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum disclosed on Tuesday.

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Dr Adutwum in his address at the STEM education stakeholder meeting held in Accra said the intervention is aimed at ensuring that students at Junior High School are able to, at least, read and write by the time they complete school.

“It is worrying and unacceptable that students who cannot read or write are still given many elective subjects to do in school, then focusing on literacy and writing skills courses,” the Education Minister stated as quoted by Daily Graphic.

He said the country’s current education system does not favour some students adding that it is better to offer those students who cannot read or write additional literacy courses than being offered additional elective courses.

“It is better to offer students who cannot read or write additional literacy courses than being offered additional elective courses which do not help them to read or write,” the teaching Minister told stakeholders at the meeting.

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“Why is that student who cannot read being offered additional courses? Dr Yaw Adutwum quizzed saying that “There will be interventions for those who cannot read or cannot write. Their electives subjects will be reduced consequently.”

1 thought on “Govt to reduce elective subjects of students who cannot read, write”

  1. Why not make it four years for such students. They read only the core subjects subjects plus emphasis on literacy in the 1st year whiles they continue adding the Elective subjects from the 2nd to 4th year.

    I quiet remember as a teacher teaching in a less endowed rural secondary school, the best results I ever experienced for my students were the SHS 2011 batch who had the opportunity to do 4 years, courtesy President Kuffour’s policy. A greater number and proportion of them passed all their core subjects, which enabled more of them to secure admission into tertiary institutions. This was more than all year batches that I had thought.

    This experiment made me conclude that students with poor literacy foundations can do either better or as other students, when they are have at least a year to prepare them to take on the Elective Subjects as those with good literacy foundations. The potential to excel is there but it should be unleashed with a year of tuition in only the core subjects in first year before introduced to the Electives.

    This policy should be tried. It will work

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