Gonjaland Youth Association calls on stakeholders to arrest falling educational standards

Gonjaland Youth Association calls on stakeholders to arrest falling educational standards

The Gonjaland youth Association ( GLYA ) has on Friday 4th March, 2022 organised  a stakeholders consultative forum on education at Damongo in the savannah regional capital to discuss and to find solutions to the  falling  standards of education in the savannah region. 

The vice president of the savannah regional house of chiefs and paramount of the Build traditional area, Buipewura Abdulai  jinapor II in an address explained that it was overwhelming and brain cracking in the history of the savannah region to have such a timely stakeholder consultative forum engagements to discuss and to find lasting solutions to the falling standards of education in the region as the region is highly sick in the educational sector considering it's educational  performance  in the past years. 

The paramount chief for the Buipe traditional  area further explained that, it is important as son's and daughters of Gonjaland to have a collective interest in brainstorming to prescribe an antidote in other to bring to speed and to improve on the educational  standards in the region. 

He added that, several scholars have made statements  that education remains as the developmental machinery of every society and that, the savannah region is not an exception of this statements as it is said that, "education is a human right with immense power to transform" on whose foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy, and sustainable human development. 

Buipewura Jinapor II indicated  that, education in the savannah region remains as an invaluable asset  to propel and to enhance the general well-being of the region and Ghana at large and therefore urged the sons  and daughters of Gonjaland not to put the education of the region on a silver platter. 

He urged the young ones in the region to adopt  the culture of choosing mentors through whom the can imulate as a guide for directions and that, it's apparently reasonable to take advantage of positive technology by focusing on modern learning  processes and disassociate themselves from social vices  such as unprescribed  drug usages among others. 

The vice president of the savannah regional  House of chiefs also used the forum to charge the Regional minister to with immediate effect put up a consultative and research committee to research  into the causes and reasons for the abysmal  performance of students in the region and assured  him of the backing  of the traditional  authorities. 

The Savannah regional minister,  Hon. Saeed  Muhazu  Jibriel also in an address said, the bedrock upon which the development  of nations is built is based on education and that, there is the need for the son's and daughters of Gonjaland to be worried about the abysmal and regrettable decline  in the standards of education in the region. 

He noted that, on the 25th of August, 2021, he initiated discussions on how to quickly  address  the poor performance of students in second cycle institutions. 

Hon. Saeed added that, all is not well in the educational sector in the region considering  the performance of students which is sliding  down hill and the earlier the stemmed the declension for the better.

The minister disclosed that, he has charged all Municipal and District Chief Executives in the region to dedicate 60% of their internally generated funds on education with the initiation of an annual teachers awards scheme which will begin this year and called on the traditional authorities in the region to support teachers in their traditional areas to  able them discharge their duties effectively.

The Ag. Savannah regional education Director, Hajia Katumi Natogmah Attah in a presentation gave an overview and statistics of the performance of students in the region and explained that, the regional and district education offices are responsible to cordinate, support and  supervise all teaching and learning activities to ensure effective and efficient education delivery that should gear towards achieving access and quality educational system in the region.

Hajia Katumi also outlined a number of challenges faced by the service that is affecting teaching and learning including inadequate teachers and logistics in the region which is having effects on teacher - pupil ratio, poor attendance and punctuality. 

The acting Director used the forum to advocated for the need for all stakeholders to come onboard to support the mandate of the Ghana Education Service to be able to deliver effectively the learning outcomes of all learners in the region.

The President of the Gonjaland Youth Association, Lawyer Mohammad Amin expressed gratitude to the various stakeholders and speakers at the forum and explained that the abysmal performance and fallen standards of education in the region is worrying to the Gonjaland Youth Association and that, the association is hopeful that the forum will help bring a lasting solution problem.

The president of the Gonjaland youth Association added that many more of such engagements will be held in the coming weeks to help find solutions to the situation of the abysmal performance of students and the  fallen standards of education in the Savannah Region.

Kumatey Gorden

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