Former Director General of the Economic and Organised Crime Office, Biadela Mortey Akpadzi
Former Director General of the Economic and Organised Crime Office, Biadela Mortey Akpadzi, has urged the government to standardise teaching methods in all basic schools across the country.
Speaking at the graduation ceremony of Princeton Academy in Tema, Greater Accra Region, Mr. Akpadzi, a private legal practitioner and the Chairman of the Parent-Teacher Association of the school, emphasised the need to ensure that teaching methods remain relevant to evolving societal demands.
“Our young learners should be made to learn things that are relevant now and will be relevant in the future. For instance, my understanding is that Ghana is an agricultural country, and I also know for a fact that people leave JHS, and it’s not every one of them who is academically inclined and will go and get all the degrees that we are talking about.
“A lot of them go into agriculture. But unfortunately, in my opinion, we don’t have agriculture as a subject at the basic level. I think it is wrong, and it is not only agriculture that I am talking about, but the subjects that we teach them should be relevant for their today as well as into the future,” he stated.
The ceremony, held to confer honours on students who had completed various stages of learning, was attended by key personalities, including the Members of Parliament for Sene West and Tema East, among other high-ranking public officials.
The Member of Parliament for Tema East, Isaac Ashai Odamtten, underscored the importance of private schools to the Ghanaian education system and reaffirmed the government’s commitment to improving secondary education through the Free Senior High School programme to create pathways for student success.
He urged parents to take a keen interest in holding the government accountable and demanding policies to enhance the nation’s education sector.
“All of us should be active watchers and demand of government the promises they have made to improve our SHS,” the MP said.
The headmaster of Princeton Academy, Emmanuel Frimpong, while emphasising the role of schools in shaping the future of learners, called on the government to extend support to private schools.
“We are also calling on the government; this is a general call that the government should support private schools because it is very expensive running private schools,” he said.
Emmanuel Frimpong expressed optimism about the school’s future, noting plans to expand to include a senior high school to meet the educational needs of learners.
