THE THOUGHTS ROOM

The Forum for Education Reform (FFER) is calling on government to channel its resources to expanding infrastructure at the existing thirty-eight colleges of education in the country rather than forging ahead with its plans to establishing an additional ten. According to the Forum, government’s decision to establish another ten colleges of education is a step in the wrong direction. Speaking on Accra-based Joy FM , Retired Diplomat and Educationist, and member of the Forum, Dr K. B Asante explained that the Forum was not against government’s interventions in the educational system, but if government goes ahead to inject funds into the project, it would result in the dissipation of funds into “unnecessary areas”. Members of the forum include Sir Sam Jonah; Chairman, Jonah Mining, Prof. Stephen Adei; former Rector of GIMPA, Prof. Seth Buatsi; formerly of University of Ghana; Mr. Kenneth Quartey, a businessman; Ms. Adelaide Ahwireng, Managing Director of Fio Enterprises

Dr Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, CEO-Accra Metropolitan Assembly An event does not cease to be an event because the media choose to ignore it.  Nor do the people and events highlighted by the media necessarily leave any marks on history.  Mrs Indira Gandhi. Thomas Carlyle has submitted that, “no great man lives in vain.  The history of the world is the biography of great men”.  There is also an Irish proverb to the extent that, “you have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was”. President John Dramani Mahama did the honourable thing by ordering the Accra Metropolitan Chief Executive to rescind his scramble to confer honour on the late President John Evans Atta Mills, and for openly acknowledging that the act was a sad mistake arising out of overzealousness.  But, the inordinate act could have been nipped in the bud.  Dr  Alfred Oko Vanderpuije may have acted in good faith to reward Prof. Mills for bringing him from obscurity to popularity, as within th