The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum says the government intends to institute measures to reduce elective subjects of Junior High School students who cannot read or write.
The intervention, he explained, is aimed at ensuring that students at Junior High Schools are able to, at least, read and write by the time they complete school.
For him, it is worrying and unacceptable that students who cannot read or write are still given many elective subjects to do in school, rather than focusing on literacy and writing skills courses.
Dr. Adutwum made the disclosure at the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education stakeholder meeting in Accra on Tuesday. An event was held under the auspices of the National Teaching Council.
For the Education Minister, the current education system in the country does not favor “weak” or underprivileged students and needs to be improved.
Dr. Adutwum noted that 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.
“Why is it that students who cannot read are being offered additional courses?” he quizzed, adding that “There will be interventions for those who cannot read or cannot write. Their elective courses will be reduced consequently,” he stressed.
Source: dailygraphiconline