Over the years trained teachers and nurses, have acquired training and come out of the various training schools all over the country.
These training processes take a maximum of three years to come out as a trained teacher or nurse.
After this, these nurses and trained teachers, are posted by government into various schools and hospitals.
This has increased enrolment, because of the interest of most Senior High School (SHS) graduates, who do not even have the passion or interest in these two fields of profession.
However, since the process training and securing a good job is easy, compared to their colleagues who opt for the university which requires four years and seeking for a job is difficult to come by, most of them tend to rush into the various colleges of education and nursing training institutions for ready jobs.
Another factor, which influences these high school graduates into these training schools is that, the grades required to enter into these schools are flexible, than the ones requested by the universities.
Whereas at the university level, one will have to sit again to better his or her grades before being admitted, these colleges often times accept students with lesser grades for training.
In an interview with a student from the Accra College of Education, about the requirements to get admission, one student said, ‘‘before one can gain admission into the school, one must have at least a pass grade from grade A1 to D7’’.
He said ‘‘after our two years of studies in the school, we are sent out to basic schools for our out program for a period of one year and that adds up to the two years of study making it three years of learning. From there, we come back to school to write our final papers and then graduate.
After our graduation, we are given sponsorship letters to be signed by the District Officer and then our job is secured”. Efforts to speak to the Principal of the Accra College of Education, proved futile.
On the other hand, the trained nurses who go through this same process, some of them allegedly fail their papers during their period of learning in their various training schools but they still get posted after their learning period for their out programme and permanent work after the out programme.
The future leaders who are yet to know right from wrong are entrusted into the hands of such teachers and human lives are also left in the hands of such nurses. This can be blamed on poor educational structure in the teacher and nursing training institutes.
At the university, graduates are awarded per their academic performance and excellence in their course of study at the end of their four year period that is the 1st class award, 2nd Class and the 3rd Class honours.
These university graduates thrive and are ready for the job market but unfortunately, they rather have no readily available jobs for them.
In an interview with a 2014 graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon John Ansah Badu, he said ‘‘I have been home for three years now and I graduated with a 2nd Class Upper degree but I have made relentless effort to get a job form various companies but all has been to no avail.’’.
He also added that, “Compared to training colleges, most of us come out of the universities and acquiring job becomes very difficult, however we spend four years in the tertiary institutions without allowances or been fed by the universities and yet, we come out without jobs. We been cheated by both government and the trained teachers and nurses’’.
When asked about his views on how things can be reformed he said, ‘‘I think that it will be best if the feeding benefit given to the trainees is stopped, because those in the universities pursuing Diploma course, are not being fed or giving allowances neither are they having a secured job after their course of study, since they are also pursuing a Diploma certificate in their training schools.
So I think its best their allowances have been cancelled as at the moment”.
Source: The Herald
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I am happy that the writer was and is still afraid to make his or her identity known, since they Just put together some words of the English alphabet with no meaning. Fearo....!!!!
This article is a disgrace to Ghana Journalism. Lee, you may be right with regards teachers training but totally wrong when it comes to nursing. Please, everyone must think before disgracing Ghana like this. Many people read our news in foreign countries and as I write I'm sitting in England. Why do we always look down on what we do as Ghanaians and Africans? Well, UK is planning for on the job training for nurses! WHAT DO SAY TO THAT?
Mr. Writer, the info you put out there is ruthless and baseless. You need to dig deeper for proper information before you try to make a point in matters concerning areas you have no idea about. You asked for information from just one junior student and you think that is it. You are just looking for what you think it's wrong per your own judgment and maybe experience. Your facts about the nurses is totally wrong. Try again and repost. Better luck next time. Do detailed work if you want to be an award winning journalist and learn your vocabs well too.
Journalist like you are even employed to various broadcasting stations.if you don't know something you rather find out before bringing it out. You dunderheads even claim u are well educated... Tweaaaaa...
***barred word*** and baseless argument. The writer has his own misconception which he needs to be educated on.What then is the difference between professional or vocational training and academic training. Such arguments when entertained renders university graduate Jobless.Poeple showcase their ignorance and naivety in the media to incite and pollute the minds of the less endowed. Let us cherish our own who by chance get trained to serve Ghana. From president, MP and other top officials were teachers.This write up is rubbish....
I want to ask the writer the number of years he think teachers should be trained?. He has also forgotten there are equally good students who did not get admission to the university and decided to go to the training college. There are also good student who could not afford the university fees and had to fall on the colleges of education and the nursing colleges. i believe that what they need to cover before coming out as teachers their able to do that.
Those who pay for their 1st class and others are usually those working already and need the cert as a top up so they usually with with their HND and others and is usually at the private universities they get those chances thats y degree is awarded, tell me the number of people u know with E8 and F9 and are at legon or UCC. Our nurses must be professionals so they should start their training with better results. Go to the northern part and sefwi area and check de results there all cos those with better results dont prefer those places.
Dey are never posted when dey fail their papers. And even nowadays students at de universities pay for their first class, second class n whatever. More to de point only teacher trainees dat are fed by de government.
On the other hand, the trained nurses who go through this same process, some of them allegedly fail their papers during their period of learning in their various training schools but they still get posted after their learning period for their out programme and permanent work after the out programme. I think if they fail their paper they shouldnt be posted just like the university where u have to resit for ur failed papers before u are graduated. Those things are the reason why so many people have now decide to be nurses even with their failed papers, let them better it so that we get professionals to be working at the end of the day and not anyone with failed results