[ 2016-11-13 ]

Ghana not ready for ‘wholesale’ Arabic study - IMANI Ghana
Ghana is currently not fully ready to make Arabic
an examinable subject in schools in the country.

This according to President of policy think tank
IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe is because the
country lacks the infrastructure to implement the
idea in the short and medium term.

“We cannot begin to make it look like obviously
a wholesale thing. Why not probably Hausa and even
if I suggest Hausa it’s to suggest again that
there is even space for it to be taught across
board. I think the infrastructure we have now
cannot support this in the short to medium term.

“I don’t think we are ready, we are dealing
with too many rudimentary things, and chief of
staff is my good friend and I’ll probably be
telling him this in his face,” he said on Citi
FM’s news analysis programme, The Big Issue on
Saturday.

Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah that announced that
government intends to make Arabic an examinable
subject at the Senior High School level in 2017
and the basic level in 2018.

The IMANI boss on The Big Issue urged government
not to rush in implementing the idea.

“The whole idea that there may be career paths
for technical jobs in the Arab world or career
diplomats may be aspirational but really we
conducted the JSS here in this country, the JSS
are supposed to have workshops, they never did.

That is where the wretched of the poor from our
educational leader actually end up. So we are not
even treating technical education that well. Do we
really want to pile up? This is
non-quantifiable,” he added.

Arabic already an examinable SHS subject

Meanwhile, a former Director General of the Ghana
Education Service (GES), Mr Michael Kenneth Nsowah
has said the subject is already examinable.

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Friday
[November 11], Mr Nsowah said, “already included
in the SHS curriculum is Arabic and in actual fact
students for this year wrote Arabic on the 29th of
March… it is already there so the issue that
they are going to be introduced to the curriculum;
it is already there.”

Source - Citifmonline

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