We Were Not Consulted On Some Government Educational Reforms – GhIE

The President of the Ghana Institution of Engineers, Rev. Professor Ing. Charles Anum Adams says the Association of Engineers were not somehow not happy about some crucial educational decisions taken without their inputs . The President was addressing newsmen at their head office on their grand engineering week celebration in Takoradi slated for March 24th this year . He stated unequivocally that engineering underpins everything in the world and Ghana is no exception. Expatiating further the president attested to a situation where their inputs were not sought and factored into the Government’s implementation of the STEM programme which is purely Science and Technology based. According his out fit ,yes the program is good in all spheres but sideling a professional body like GhIE it was an expensive omission . We are experts in Science and Engineering with practical knowledge and experience over the years . We trained and equiped people who have become overlords in their own right ,besides know next ti everything about Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, vut we were not consulted before the program took off “he queried.. Ing Professor Anim Adam asked why student who did well in science but could not secure admissions due to lack of space before new admissions since most of them are being left behind. “Why do we have to start all over again when some backlog is there to use ? he posed. The idea of training student at that STEM schools for just two semester to enter a university is not good enough .That is why the traditional universities are not admitting these STEM students . That is why governments is pushing them to less endowed universities” ,he said . He agreed that the country needs more engineers and technologists to developed but we need to follow the laid down norms and methods and not rush through things . Again he kicked against the situation where students without science and mathematical acceptable base to do science and technological subjects is not good enough. He did not accept that even he would not vehemently ask for total stoppage of switching of some students from the arts to do science This must be done carefully not produce half baked scientists and engineers . The presided the government for his pragmatic reforms but still believes certain things must be done right. He criticised a situation where thec TVET for instance is only theorotical but not practical due to lack of equipment and practical teachers . They are doing textbook TVET but not practical TVET ,he opined .