General News of Wednesday, 8 January 2020Source: www.ghanaweb.comGhana ranked second to last on education globally - Prof. AdeiEducationist, Professor Stephen AdeiThe literacy level of Ghanaians is nothing to write home about as Ghana has been ranked among the worse countries on education worldwide, Ghanaian educationist, Professor Stephen Adei has said. According to him, Ghana can only redeem itself from this ‘shame’ by improving the quality of education at the basic school levels. Adehyieman ma, now you go to rank our education and we are one of the worse. In fact…only Niger was below us in terms of quality of our basic education.”He alleged that most basic school students after their completion still come out as illiterates just as people who haven't received an education. Professor Stephen Adei averred that these students during their BECE pay bribes to invigilators to allow them cheat, and with this attitude, they come out of school without being able to construct a sentence without an error.

Source: GhanaWeb January 08, 2020 09:56 UTC