A dysfunctional education system is the greatest threat to national security- Ayariga
The Deputy Minister of Education Mahama Ayariga has stated that a dysfunctional educational system is the greatest threat to any nation’s security.
Mr. Ayariga was speaking to teachers, students, pupils and education workers and community leaders at a durbar in Tamale.
The Deputy Minister was recently appointed by the Minister of Education to lead a task force expected to implement a number of measures taken by the ministry to improve the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) performance in the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions.
Addressing he stakeholders present, Mahama Ayariga noted that a dysfunctional public education system that produces unskilled and functionally illiterate youth and adults unsuitable for employment is the greatest threat to national security and not small arms proliferation or ethnic conflict.
He assured the teachers and pupils that if they committed themselves to the measures proposed by the ministry to better prepare BECE candidates for 2012 the country would witness better results.
The new measures being implemented by the Education Ministry include greater discipline among teachers and pupils and extra tuition.
Mr Ayariga, therefore, promised that the Ministry of Education will provide the support needed to realise the implementation of those measures.
The Deputy Minister implored the commitment of the parents and communities to the initiatives.
The pupils received the proposed measures with great enthusiasm but the teachers said they need to be motivated to put out their best. The deputy minister will hold a similar forum in the Savelugu District later in the day.
By: e.tv Ghana
