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| ANIS HAFFAR |
STORY BY MITCHELL PLATINI
(BLG NEWS
REPORTER)
Mr. Anis Haffer, educationist, trainer of
teachers and leadership criticized the Ghanaian education system as full of
theories that deprives students from gaining more practical experiences and
using their hands to work during the 25th
Anniversary Lecture and CSR Foundation Launch of ndk Financial
Services Ltd at Alisa Hotel, Accra.
The
program which was themed “The Politics of Educational Reforms in Ghana” hosted
great dignitaries such as Prof. Ernest Aryeetey, Vice Chancellor, University of
Ghana and guest speaker for the program, Mr. Anis Haffar, Chairman of the
program, Mr. Oko-Nikoi Dzani, founder and Managing Director of ndk financial
services Ltd and host of the program, Honourable Oko- Vanderpuy, Minister of
Youth and Sports with other CEOs from the banking and industrial sectors.
According
to Prof. Ernest Aryeetey, the favoritism in the admission process of the
education system has been very challenging for the country as it has affected
the quality of the education system in Ghana. He noted that, this favoritism is
as a result of structural failures in the schools which countenance heads of
institutions to act as regulators alongside their roles. He added that this
creates conflict of interests in the educational institutions where the manager
of the school acts as the same person checking legal compliances in the school.
Prof.
Aryeetey maintained that, the quality of the human resources from the
educational institutions is not about the number of years spent in school but
the nature of activities and curriculum that will help the country to achieve
its goals in education. He revealed that school activities such as sports and
debates help to firmly form the young ones for future responsibilities of which
these has been neglected in the educational sector.
Speaking
with BLG news, Mr. Anis Haffar explained that, the reason why the country is
facing lot of human resource challenges is as a result of the delivery method
used in the educational systems which focuses more on class room lectures. He
noted that this always produces incompetent human resources for the country
with lack of practical experiences aside the theories being the core
problem. According to him, the
educational reforms should be structured to focus on real work environment to
enable students use their hands to work instead of doing a lot of readings.
He
added that, developing countries needs people who can use their hand to work
not people who will sit in the class room to engage in “CHEW and POUR”
activities as this will ensure that certificates given to people will be full
of skills rather than theories. “The classroom lectures deploy in the Ghanaian
educational institutions must be banned in order to produce quality human
resources for the country”, he exclaimed.
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