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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Is Julius Debrah whom l learnt was an elder of a church in USA out of his mind.If he has abandon Christ he should keep it to himself and stop propagating falsehood all in the name of power. What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and looses his/her soul?.
I AGREE WITH YOU. FRENCH, SPANISH, DUTCH, MUST RATHER BE INTRODUCED IN OUR VARIOUS SCHOOLS. ESPECIALLY FRENCH MUST BE COMPULSORY WHILES THE OTHERS CAN BE OPTIONAL. WHERE IS THIS ARABIC COMING FROM? WE NEED FRENCH WHICH IS NEXT TO ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD.
eeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiii Ghana, what is wrong with alhaji dramani mahani>>>>>>>>>>> hahahahahahahahahah please add DAGOMBA, FRAFRA, BINLADEN OSAMA, and ALMIGHT ISIS,
when people are studying french and spanish as other languages because the world is a globe now, you want to learn arabic, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuullu, no wonder obama sent you those terrorists before exiting,
Desperation galore now is Arabic to woe Zongo votes and you turn around and accused your opponent to stop begging. Arabic learning is now the campaign message for NDC when your opponents are promise policies that will get Ghana out of the mess your 8 years in government has created for the citizens. Change is surely coming
waw,a man will do anything for the sake of his stomach Arabic compulsory?is it for the moslem vote or what? you will help a lot by prducing engineers,architects and high demand skills people in our zongos. pls lets always think beyong today,but if you must do it consider making Gurusi and sisaala compulsory too.
abooooooooooowaa nkye wo nweeeeeeeeeei
Absolute ***barred word***! How on earth can you force my child to study Arabic compulsorily? Desperation has set in for this corrupt and incompetent Mahama gov't. Indeed the kicks of a dying horse are dangerous and desperate. Anyway there will be no NDC gov't after January 2017 to implement this bogus decision and that's what soothes my heart...
I CAN BET WITH MY LAST PESEWA, THERE IS NO TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGE IN WNECHI. SO WHERE IS THIS TRAINING GOING ON?
Desperate president try all you can but it is glearingly written on the wall that time is up, time asoooo time aso