T-Poly Rector asked stakeholders to delink partisan politics from education

--> The Rector of Tamale Polytechnic, Dr. Abdulai Salifu Asuro has observed that in order to ensure sustainable and quality education systems in the country, stakeholders must delink education from partisan politics.

He said stakeholders in the sector must also take a second look at the educational policies government is implementing to ensure that they do not conflict with the professional standards.

This he said would bring about relative stability of policy in the education sector to ensure consistency of results and expose the real challenges for workable solutions.

 The rector of the Polytechnic made the observation at the Northern Regional branch of the Ghana National Association of Teachers 4^th quadrennial regional delegates’ conference in Tamale which was under the theme; “Education in crisis: re-examining the roles of stakeholders in the northern region for 2015”.

In her welcome address, the Northern Regional Chairperson of GNT, Madam Martha Akemo said, teachers in the region are quite aware of the looming crisis in the education sector but measures adopted so far are not yielding the desired results which could enhance quality teaching and learning.  

According to her, teachers are concerned about the fate of the two streams of Senior High School graduates not because of the numbers involved but the dark clouds which hang around their absorption into the universities and other tertiary institutions.  

She opined that stakeholders in education and teachers need to collectively assess and identify the actual problems in the sector and find a workable and lasting solution to them.