Successive governments have reduced quality of basic education to unguarded partisan politics- Dr Addai- Amanfo
Dr Banabas Addai Amanfo, Research Fellow at the Institute for Education Studies(IFEST)
A Research Fellow at the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST) at the Valley View University, Dr Banabas Addai Amanfo, says successive governments have reduced the quality of basic education due to unguarded partisan politics.
The Educationist believes political leaders have over the years rolled out policies in the education sector that seeks to give them votes rather than the ones with good impact on the country.
The situation according to him has affected the quality of education particularly at the basic level.
He was speaking on the Kumasi based OTEC 102.9 FM’s morning show Nyansapo on Wednesday February 22,2023.
“Most of our leaders sometimes embarked on programmes just to please citizens without thinking deep about how to keep them running, and end up creating more problems for the students “.
“State policies are geared towards making the party popular rather than helping the country’s educational sector to strive”.
“All the political leaders think of is the next elections, instead of the leaders to think about the overall policy impact on the country; they are more concerned about the impact on the next elections, which I believe is very worrying “. He said.
Dr Amanfo emphasized that it will in the good interest of the state if politicians were to stop politicizing educational issues and allow institutional governance structures to function effectively, “stressing that when educational system becomes extremely political rather than educational entity, students become the losers”.
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Jacob Agyenim Boateng
