Federal Government Needs To Do Better: A Letter To My Dear Country
The Federal Government should focus on meaningful reforms rather than recycling old ideas. Today, we're not discussing the rebranding of NEPA to PHCN or debating bleaching creams and tariff plans. I often wonder what our government thinks its citizens are. They jump from one irrelevant issue to another. Take, for instance, the Labour Congress. They're a group of individuals easily silenced with minor incentives. Now, the government is proposing to merge Junior Secondary School (JSS) and Senior Secondary School (SSS) into a single 12-year education system before tertiary education. This isn't a new concept; it's been the norm, except for some private schools that accelerate their students' progress without following the proper sequence. A student in primary school writes the common entrance examination and proceeds to JSS1. The same student then moves from JSS3 to SS1 and writes the SSCE exams in SS2. Consequently, they enter university with inadequate knowledge. Cu...