Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Ghana News Online
Advertisement
  • News
    The Value of Friendship in Life

    Ban sugary snacks, carbonated drinks in Ghana schools – Pastor Alao-Caesar

    Mahama appoints Dr Randy Abbey as acting COCOBOD CEO

    NDC primaries: No tie in Ketu North, Edem Agbana declared the winner

    NDC primaries: No tie in Ketu North, Edem Agbana declared the winner

    Don’t Politicize the Civil Service

    Don’t Politicize the Civil Service

    The Magic of improved sex life

    The Magic of improved sex life

    So It’s a New Year – Pastor Alao-Caesar

    So It’s a New Year – Pastor Alao-Caesar

    Trending Tags

    • Commentary
    • Featured
    • Event
    • Editorial
  • Politics
  • National
  • Business
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Tech
  • Science
  • Lifestyle
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Travel
  • News
    The Value of Friendship in Life

    Ban sugary snacks, carbonated drinks in Ghana schools – Pastor Alao-Caesar

    Mahama appoints Dr Randy Abbey as acting COCOBOD CEO

    NDC primaries: No tie in Ketu North, Edem Agbana declared the winner

    NDC primaries: No tie in Ketu North, Edem Agbana declared the winner

    Don’t Politicize the Civil Service

    Don’t Politicize the Civil Service

    The Magic of improved sex life

    The Magic of improved sex life

    So It’s a New Year – Pastor Alao-Caesar

    So It’s a New Year – Pastor Alao-Caesar

    Trending Tags

    • Commentary
    • Featured
    • Event
    • Editorial
  • Politics
  • National
  • Business
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Tech
  • Science
  • Lifestyle
  • Entertainment
  • Health
  • Travel
No Result
View All Result
Morning News
No Result
View All Result
Home Education

98% of Ghanaian pupils can’t read – Survey

by GHNewsOnline
September 2, 2014
in Education
0
98% of Ghanaian pupils can’t read – Survey
0
SHARES
51
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

A fresh survey has revealed that about 98 per cent of pupils in basic schools of Ghana can neither read nor understand English or any Ghanaian language effectively.

According to the latest National Education Assessment report, only two per cent of the basic school pupils sampled in the nationwide survey are able to read fluently with understanding.

READ ALSO

Man arrested by National Security for allegedly leaking WASSCE papers

JHS students will be served Waakye, Jollof and plain rice as free hot meals daily – Minister

The survey carried out between July 9-11 2013, revealed that 44% of the 19,458 pupils could read without understanding what they read whiles only four per cent were able to read with some understanding.

The biennial survey was carried out in 550 public and private schools across the country in 170 districts.

The disturbing findings come on the heels of the West Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results, which registered over 50 per cent failure in 2014.

The immediate past president of the Ghana Book Publishers Association, Eliot Agyare, in an interview with Accra-based Citi FM said the only way the menace can be nip in the bud is to “start a campaign that will emphasise on reading” besides the mainstream curriculum.

“Reading is a learned habit and a habit is something that lives with you. So if you don’t learn and develop the habit it won’t become a part of you,” Agyare stated. “One of the things we realised is that reading has not been developed as a habit for majority of our children.”

He added: “As long as children in the schools don’t have books that they will enjoy reading, we can’t assume that they will become readers at the end of the day. Once children don’t have books that they will enjoy reading you don’t expect them to read.

“It will be a fallacy to think that all teachers are adequately resourced to teach reading in the schools.”

Tags: Ghana Book Publishers AssociationNational Education Assessment ReportWest Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)

Related Posts

Man arrested by National Security for allegedly leaking WASSCE papers
Education

Man arrested by National Security for allegedly leaking WASSCE papers

September 18, 2021
JHS students will be served Waakye, Jollof and plain rice as free hot meals daily – Minister
Education

JHS students will be served Waakye, Jollof and plain rice as free hot meals daily – Minister

August 18, 2020
Fail Cheating WASSCE Students And Allow Them To Re-Sit – Ashesi Founder
Education

Fail Cheating WASSCE Students And Allow Them To Re-Sit – Ashesi Founder

August 17, 2020
Tullow STEM Radio School continues to make successes in education and capacity building
Education

Tullow STEM Radio School continues to make successes in education and capacity building

August 6, 2020
University education for Ghanaian students will be free when I am elected – LPG’s Kofi Akpaloo
Education

University education for Ghanaian students will be free when I am elected – LPG’s Kofi Akpaloo

July 22, 2020
‘You’re Our Heroes’ – Mahama Wishes 2020 WASSCE Candidates Well
Education

‘You’re Our Heroes’ – Mahama Wishes 2020 WASSCE Candidates Well

July 20, 2020
Next Post
Pastor Chris’ Wife Taken Off Church Website

Pastor Chris’ Wife Taken Off Church Website

© 2020 GHNewsOnline.

No Result
View All Result
  • Homepages
    • Home Page 1
    • Home Page 2
  • News
  • Politics
  • National
  • Business
  • World
  • Entertainment
  • Fashion
  • Food
  • Health
  • Lifestyle
  • Opinion
  • Science
  • Tech
  • Travel

© 2020 GHNewsOnline.