Editorials
IN IGNORANCE THEY CALL IT ‘VERNACULAR’
Sunday February 28, 2010
Ghana, last Sunday joined the rest of the world to commemorate International Mother Tongue Day. The day was instituted by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1999 in recognition of the value of mother tongue as an instrument for transmitting culture for the socio-economic development of the...read more
ALL HANDS ON DECK
Friday February 19, 2010
IT is a fact that lack of basic infrastructure in the education sector has contributed immensely to the fallen standard of education in the country. The fact that some basic schools in parts of the country continue to score zero per cent in the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) annually goes to confirm that not all is well on the...read more
RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY
Monday February 15, 2010
It rained heavily in Accra at the weekend. For residents of “safe places” in the capital, it was welcome relief from the weeks of sultriness in the tropical sunshine. For people on the other side of town – those unfortunate to have rented houses in “unsafe” territory - however, it was another nightmarish...read more
BUNGALOWS FOR CRONIES AND RENT (1)
Saturday February 06, 2010
Early this week, it came out that only 78 out of the 186 occupants of government bungalows in Sunyani pay rent to the state. The Regional Minister, surprised by the revelation, promised to investigate.
Two days later, the reasons for non-payment of rent came out; at least, two of the reasons.
One was lack of any update of the data on...read more
LET THERE BE ORDER AT NSS
Thursday October 29, 2009
Events unfolding at the headquarters of the National Service Scheme (NSS) have the potential of creating a serious national crisis if not properly handled and on time too. Over the last few weeks, tension at the headquarters has gone high following a number of allegations by the workers against the acting Executive Director, Mr Vincent Senam...read more
GIVING CHINESE BUSES A BAD NAME AND…
Tuesday October 20, 2009
For buses that had been on Ghanaian pot-holed streets for as long as four years, doing the heavy-duty rounds associated with omnibus service, carrying everything from human beings to market wares, the Times thought that that was to the credit of the manufacturers. So we were surprised to hear from “the horse’s own mouth”,...read more
THE PREMPEH COLLEGE EXAMPLE
Thursday October 08, 2009
Twenty-five students of Prempeh College in Kumasi have been withdrawn by the school’s board for non-performance. As reported in last Wednesday’s Times, those affected include eight form-one students and 17 second year students, whose results were said to have deteriorated as they failed in the second and third term examinations....read more
SABOTEURS FROM WITHIN
Friday September 25, 2009
The Ghana National Fishermen’s Council says some government functionaries, including District Chief Executives and politicians, of interfering in the administration of pre-mix fuel. In their words, these government officials and politicians have “hijacked” the Landing Beach Committees set up to manage pre-mix fuel...read more
THE ENDANGERED FEMALE TEACHER IN THE RURAL AREA
Thursday September 24, 2009
On our back page today, we carry the lament of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Education whose chairman has diagnosed the decline in education standards in the country as “the over-concentration of qualified teachers in the urban areas. “Many teachers, mostly qualified university graduates, do not want to accept postings to...read more
NKRUMAH IN THE SCALE OF HISTORY
Monday September 21, 2009
Exactly 100 years ago, a child was born to a goldsmith and a fish monger in a Western Region town of Nkroful. He lived an ordinary life; it is even said that to travel overseas for higher education, he had to go as a stow-away. The accounts differ as to what inspired his later course of life as a Pan Africanist. It was in giving...read more
