Government Must Re-consider 3yr SHS policy – Educationist

An educationist, Professor Jerome Djangmah is advising government to re-consider its stance on the 3-year Senior High School (SHS) following the failure by many graduates to meet the minimum requirement for entry into tertiary institutions,notably the polytechnics

He said: “If we get to a point where we cannot even get qualified students into polytechnics, then this is the time for the government to take another look at its policy on educational systems ".
Government in collaboration with Polytechnic authorities as well as the National Council for Tertiary Education agreed to lower the minimum requirement for entry into polytechnics.

This was after about 17,000 applicants failed to get admission into the polytechnics due to poor grades from the SHS level.

Speaking to a popular Accra based radio Citi 97.3fm, Prof Djangmah a former Director of Ghana Education Service and the West African Examination Council (WAEC) opined that the decision to lower the education bar will ultimately affect the nation’s human resource saying, “going further to lower the entry requirement for polytechnics, I don’t think really it’s the best thing to do.”
He stated that the rapid transit through the Senior High School “is not good for the majority of our kids.”
The educationist lamented over the decision by the current government to revert the SHS system from four to three years; a decision he attributed to the increased failure of SHS students.
“This particular government didn’t listen and decided to revert to three years and I think that is part of reason. The students are not spending enough time in the Senior High School.”
He therefore suggested that the students should be given more time which is “really what you ought to do for the majority of our public schools.”
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