Insurance marketer Edgar Wiredu has disagreed with President Nana Akufo-Addo’s position that laboratories and workshops of Technical High Schools are the answer to unemployment in the country. In his view, the president is championing “ancient ideas” instead of thinking of technology which is ruling the world now. “It is high time we think of technology not laboratories and workshops for students in that level, the president has misfired.”
President Akufo-Addo said his government’s flagship policy, Free SHS, will not be turned into a process of churning out young people that will not be equipped with skills to cope with the modern world, stressing that that a high school educated child without any skills would be more frustrated than a child that ended her education at the Junior High School level. It is against this that the President stated that, it is in the laboratories and workshops that students in the second cycle level will get the opportunity to expand their imagination, and develop the skills that would equip them for the job market. But contributing on Onua FM, Edgar Wiredu said the idea of workshops and laboratories belong to the past.
Emphasis, he said, should rather be placed on making sure that students coming out of SHS are equipped with modern day trend of technologies, adding that “nations are using technology to build the future, we are here talking about workshops”. Pointing to some examples to buttress his point, Edgar Wiredu explained that, elsewhere in the world, countries are using E-Learning to solve forest depletion, whiles some are also using technology to develop and bring change in the lives of their people. He wondered why the president will not lead Ghana to champion same technological reforms rather than workshops.
Pointing to some examples to buttress his point, Edgar Wiredu explained that, elsewhere in the world, countries are using E-Learning to solve forest depletion, whiles some are also using technology to develop and bring change in the lives of their people. He wondered why the president will not lead Ghana to champion same technological reforms rather than workshops. Edgar Wiredu posited that the President’s advisors are doing a great disservice to him and ask that they should be proactive in their thinking which will go a long way to help the country move forward, else Ghana will continue to lag behind in terms of technology. “We are now in the era that is ruled by technology and we must also advance in that order. Our ‘big men’ travel, I think it is time we replicate what we see being done elsewhere or we can’t develop like them.”
Source: 3news.com
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Ditto!!!!, Very Sad
Who is that with ancient face? Let us thin far
I do not get what Edgar is driving at because how does he understand the word "workshop". Workshop could be a group engaging in intensive discussion and activity of a particular subject or project OR it could be performance using improvisation and discussion to explore aspects of the production.So E-learning also is workshop that can be used to reach ones goal.Or does he think workshop is all about a room or a building in which goods are manufactured or repaired. What is he talking about???? he should come again!!!
Kofi Emma and one addressing himself as "Very Sad" OR PROBABLY did not provide any name at all. Insults and name calling cannot and will not solve any problem in this country. Teaching, listening and learning is the key. Paddy is clearly confused about what Laboratories mean. In his mind he is referring to our old, dusty Science Laboratories in our secondary schools. Even Laboratory Technicians works from their Laboratories and every specialized Science Field has its own unique Laboratory Set up. I will get a Robotics Lab from NASA and you will appreciate what we call Lab. Brother Paddy please and please again, kindly wake up, wash your face, come to life and think ALOUD about what in modern times we mean by LABORATORIES. PLEASE!
When someone comes out with a suggestion,that is his opinion as an individual. What you also contribute can educate someone somewhere but not about calling people names and insults. I also call this attitude of some of us as inappropriate and so appalling
IS THIS GUY LIVING WITH US IN THIS GENERATION? HE LOOKS VERY ANCIENT LIKE HIS WITH HIS PRE-HISTORIC BEARD.
This stone age backward thinking Edgar Wiredu should not waist our time
Edgar, please stick to insurance and commissions wai! and stop making a foooouull of yourself. You are clearly out of touch!
Edgar, you are confusing yourself with old time understanding of LABORATORY. I am a CISCO network product (ccnp). Everything we learn under cisco takes place in the LAB first; where you get better understanding of how computer network is all about before you go out to practice......to the extent that you use VIRTUAL LABS (packet tracer) In any case what is technology Edgar? I am sure his mind is fixed on the LABS we had in those days in secondary school that were popularly called SCIENCE LABORATORY where we studied CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS & BIOLOGY. Get education my paddy.
Edgar, please go and shave. Is he really the son of the former Chief Justice - Wiredu. indeed we have a long way to go......