The call for a return to the four-year senior high school system is “uncalled for” because the three-year system is “doing far better”, President John Mahama has argued in a tweet on Friday 12 August.
The traditional leader appealed to the presidential nominee of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, to reintroduce the four-year senior high school system should he win the 2016 elections.
The three-year system was first changed to a four-year system under the Kufuor administration, in which Nana Akufo-Addo served as Attorney General and Minister of Justice. It was, however, reversed to the three-year system under President John Mills, who passed away at the dying embers of his first term.
In the view of the Anhwiaso chief, the four-year system will do a lot of good to students and, thus, must be brought back by the three-time flag bearer of the NPP if he wins the December 7 polls. He, however, stated that if the three-year duration would be maintained, then all senior high schools had to be equipped with the requisite learning facilities to help improve the grades of students.
Ogyeahorhuor Kwaku Gyebi II made the appeal after he had bemoaned the falling standards of education under the administration of President John Mahama, with particular reference to the recently published results of candidates who sat in this year’s West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Saddened by the results, which saw only 53 per cent of students recording passes in English, 48.5 per cent passes in Integrated Science, and 32.8 per cent passes in Core Mathematics, the chief wondered: “If these are the kinds of results being churned out as a nation, how then can we develop?”
