Honorable Matthew Opoku Prempeh Nana also known as Napo is the Minister for education here in Ghana and also doubles up as the Member of Parliament for the Menhyia South constituency in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Today, the honourable minister was interviewed on a show called Covid 19 360 on Tv3. The minister was made to answer several questions concerning education here in Ghana. According to the Minister, the Ministry of Education is making some reforms in the curriculum because it is very necessary to do that. He said that, the new curriculum called Common Core Programme is designed such that at the end of it students can go into career or better still further to tertiary to do their grammar programmes. He said this is very effective and will reduce the failure rate of students as well as grant them the opportunity to also have job experience before moving on to have the grammar aspect of education in the tertiary that is if they want it that way or vice versa.
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The host of the show called Berla Mundi went on to ask him the long anticipated wish for students to return back to school and if it is really going to happen. The Minister’s answer to the question was not direct but quite practical. According to Dr. Matthew Prempeh, the science and nature of the disease is still being studied and so they want us to return to school safely but not to be involved in the disease. This was his indirect answer to the question and he never stated directly or indirectly whether schools would be opened. He also acclaimed that the disease is very deadly since he has been a victim of it and it was not very easy at all.
