Senior High school students in Ghanaian will from 2017 study Arabic as a compulsory subject.
This was announced by the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, when he interacted with the Muslim Community at Nsawam Zongo as part of his campaign tour of the Eastern Region.
“President Mahama has agreed that from 2017 Senior High School students will study Arabic like they do in the English language and we will introduce it at the basic level in 2018 and make it examinable.”
Julius Debrah added that the Wenchi Teacher training college has started a programme to train such teachers.
“The good news is that for the first time we have a teacher training college in Wenchi that will train our Arabic teachers to be posted to other schools after completion.”
He also announced several policies to be introduced by President Mahama if given another term in office to enrich the lives of Ghanaians.
“This is not all, under the Islamic education unit, we will have Islamic Junior High Schools and Islamic Junior Technical institutions so that graduates from these schools can be employed in other Arabic countries with the certificates they would acquire. Who will you trust to deliver, is it the one who is offering you fish or the one showing you how to fish?”.
The Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah also reiterated calls for the Muslim community in particular to vote massively for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its candidates.
Government to strictly enforce teaching in local languages
The announcement comes on the back of moves by the Education Ministry to begin the strict enforcement of the use of local languages as the sole medium of instruction in basic schools in Ghana.
The Education Minister, Professor Naana Opoku Agyeman in June 2016 indicated that only pupils from kindergarten one to primary three will be taught mainly with the local languages.
98% of class 2 pupils can’t read English
A research conducted in Ghana in 2014 revealed that 98 percent of primary two pupils in basic schools can neither read nor understand English or any Ghanaian language properly.
This was contained in the “Early Grade Reading Assessment” report commissioned by the Ghana Education Service (GES) for primary two pupils.
Source: Citifmonline
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Most of the kids cannot write the local language yet these jokes are focusing on arabic of all languages. No child of mine will be forced to study arabic. There is no economic or cultural value to my child learning arabic. Apart from oil, there is virtually nothing of value coming from those arabic nations now. Our education system needs a complete overhaul where maths and science is the focus. If we need to learn any foreign language, it should be english, french and chinese in order of importance. When you have politician making policies based solely on winning votes and not developing the country, this is what you get. Gy1m1sem nkoaa.
you are black listed already, you dramani, now dramani wants to introduce arabic, arabic, eh, trouble don come to ghana ooooooooh, hey, i beg make me and my children remain here, ahhhhh, not even introduce GERMAN, DUTCH OR SPANISH, because pretty soon they are more or less equivalent to super powers, that would have been somewhat sensible, short sighted mahani, TRIBALISTIC, fire burn you, BLOOD OF JESUS, CONQUER YOU, MAY HE LIFT UP HIS HAND AND BRING ALL OR EVIL PLANS TO NOT, MAY YOU CONTINUE TO BE DISGRACED, I DECREE THAT YOU WILL NO NO PEACE IF YOU TRY TO REDUCE HIM and LIFT THAT WHICH YOU BELIEVE IN
infact if this is true, if it is true, me re ntow aba biaaaa whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? eyiso fi hen?
DONT WORY VERY SOON MAHAMA WILL PROMISE BUYING AMERICA FOR GHANAIANS TO GO AND LEAVE EEEI INCOMPETENCE BI THIS
Graduate it to ISLAM, not Arabic,
i want my children to learn Portuguese too, you ffuuuuu lll, go and bring those your wedlock children to come and learn arabic, fish stew
I don't think Chief Of Staff, Mr Julious Debrah of all people said this. Maybe he was misunderstood. If he really did then it is unfortunate. Sometimes it is of one of those statements made by politicians and being misinterpretated by opponents. I don't think chief of staff actually sais it
They have an agenda, they are pursuing a course, it is only almighty God who has forced him to voice it out,their aim is to force some religion on GHANAIANS, force some tribe on Ghanaians, be superior, and allow the minority to rule, that is allllll, i remember Alhassan suhuyini mentioning this, i thought it was a joke, when he mentioned it over three years ago, GOD REIGNS,
TRUMP HAS WON OOOOOOOOOH, BE VERY VERY VERY CAREFUL, IF YOU VOTE FOR ARABIC MAHAMA, TRUMP WILL BAN ALL GHANAIANS ENTRY TO AMERICA, DEPORT ALL GHANAIANS IN AMERICA AND EVENTUALLY SEND HIS TROOPS HERE, PLEASE BE CAREFUL OKAY, send this arabic man away, what the hell is this, why not ADD GREEK AND HAUSA? AP)nkye mbeeeeeee
Desperation Galore. Esor Ruff