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<h1 style="clear:both">Make Colleges of Education 4yrs - Bishop Lodonu</h1>
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<p class=""><img src="http://cdn.ghanaweb.com/imagelib/pics/64038501.jpg" alt="Bishop Lodonu" title="Bishop Lodonu" height="250" width="280"><span class="">Catholic Bishop of Ho, Most Rev Francis Anani Kofi Lodonu</span></p>
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The Most Reverend Francis Anani Kofi Lodonu, the
Catholic Bishop of Ho, has urged the Ghana Education Service (GES) to
consider changing the academic calendar for colleges of education to
four years.<br>
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He said the three-year period of training teachers was not making the
expected impact on the educational system hence the need for a review.<br>
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Bishop Lodonu said this at the launch of the phase II of an in-service
training for teachers, and a sensitisation programme for students in the
Ho Diocese of the Catholic Church.<br>
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The project, aimed at helping to improve academic performance in the
Diocese, is under the auspices of the Development Office of the Diocese
with funding from Kindermissionswerk in Germany.<br>
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He said a review of the academic calendar, with three years on campus
and a year off campus in the form of fieldwork, could better prepare
teachers.<br>
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Bishop Lodonu said though teachers alone could not be blamed for the
falling standard of education in the country, they played a major role
and they needed to be given the requisite training for quality delivery
in the classroom.<br>
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A cursory observation, he said, indicated that most teachers were only
interested in making more money under the umbrella of extra classes,
which was not helpful.<br>
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He asked them to learn how to “give freely and not count the cost of
reward”, saying the desire and pride of teachers should be the
upliftment of their students.<br>
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Mr Jacob Kor, the Director General of the Ghana Education Service, said
teachers ought to know that their preoccupation on earth was to know
and love God and the children trusted in their care.<br>
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He called for a relook at the language policy in the country’s
educational system, arguing that, instructing kindergarten children and
lower primary pupils in the English Language was affecting quality
delivery of education and this amounted to downplaying the local
languages.<br>
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The in-service training would benefit a total of 315 teachers with
practical and efficient skills in teaching Mathematics, Science, English
Language, Social Studies, Religious and Moral Studies and Information
Communication Technology (ICT) in primary and Junior High Schools in the
Diocese.<br>
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More than 4,000 students, mainly girls, would be taken through
effective ways of learning those subjects with a three-year scholarship
package for 210 Junior High School and Senior High School students.<br>
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