Posted 28 May 2009
A politician in Ghana is looking to reform the vocational education sector by forcing students to learn English.
Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, the eastern regional minister, said making the language compulsory could help bolster the West African country’s economy, the Ghana News Agency reports.
As well as English, mathematics should also be added to the syllabus on all technical and vocational courses, Mr Ofosu-Ampofo maintained.
His remarks followed a visit to the Akawatia Technical Training Institute on Tuesday (May 26th),
The minister, who used to teach at the school, said years of neglect in this sector had hindered Ghana’s economic growth to the extent "even tooth picks are being imported".
In other Ghana TEFL news, the Hartlepool Mail reports two teachers from Dyke House secondary school are preparing to spend four weeks teaching English to impoverished children in the country this summer.
One of them, Helen Dawson, said: "It is something I have always wanted to do and I have never really travelled so I didn’t want to go on my own."
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