[ 2017-04-06 ]

Paul Adom-Otchere, Host of Good Evening Ghana

KNUST has done nothing wrong denying best WASSCE student admission – Paul Adom-O
Paul Adom-Otchere, Host of Metro TV’s Good
Evening Ghana show says he sees nothing wrong with
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and
Technology’s (KNUST) decision in denying best
WASSCE student admission to Medical school and
rather commends the University for doing the right
thing because the 19year old student failed his
oral examination.

According to him, Ghanaians are overly criticising
KNUST on this issue because universities all over
the world conduct tests and interviews on students
before admitting them into their institution. So
if students fail to meet the selection criteria
with or without a good grade, the university has
the right to deny students admission to the
programme they chose to offer.

He advised that our curricula be revised and
support universities when they test students in
other aspects by trying to present rounded
students who come out to solve problems because
they have potential knowledge in everything.

“Part of the reason of our 60 year old history
with no problem solving situation is that our
curricula has presented us and made us academic
thinkers and we think only through the spectacles
of academics. We don’t think about problem
solving, we don’t think about changing the
world, we don’t think about achieving outside
the academic world and that has been a problem of
this society”, he stated.

He urged Ghanaians to understand the processes
universities take in admitting medical students
because it has about three processes which one is
the academic qualification Pius Kyere passed, the
other is the examination stage and the last is the
oral interview stage.

According to him, all candidates must pass through
this stage because they school wants to produce
doctors who are not only good in academics but
also have general knowledge in everything.

Pius Kyere, who graduated from St James Seminary
and Secondary School in the Brong Ahafo Region,
scored straight As in all eight subjects,
including his electives – Physics, Chemistry,
Biology and Mathematics and emerged as the best
student in the WASSCE examination.

Pius was shortlisted for an interview process for
admission into the Medical School, but it seems he
could not pass the oral examination.

Pius is currently reading his second choice
programme, Doctor of Optometry, at the KNUST.

Source - ghanaweb.com

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