Hon. Alhassan Suhuyini, the Member of Parliament for Tamale North, has said that one of the main problems most of the Colleges of Education in the country are facing is politicization.
According to him, the failure of the government to properly convert the Colleges into true tertiary institutions is to blame for the woes these institutions are confronted with.
“The Prof. Anamuah Mensah’s Education Committee, part of it captured the recommendation of cost-sharing to be introduced at the teacher trainee level. It’s interesting that some items identified to be shared between students, parents, and government reveal what is happening now. For example, meals were to be borne by students. The committee said the government for the time being should pay allowances and reduce it from time to time.”
“So some of these existing issues are outcomes of our politics because we have failed in implementing some of these recommendations by the professionals because of political expediency over the years. When the economy is hard hit and the government is unable to make the monies available, we experience some of these challenges. If we want to treat the Colleges as tertiary institutions and get the best out of them, then the partisanship and politics must leave our discourse”.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom/Joseph Asare
