The Deputy Minister of Education in charge of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), Gifty Twum-Ampofo has made a contradictory statement to blame teachers instead for Ghana’s economic woes and not the finance minister.
She explained that a county’s economic performance depends largely on its gross tertiary enrolment ratio.
However Ghana has a low gross tertiary enrolment ratio owing to the poor performance of students which in effect has significant negative effect on the economy, she said.
According to the minister, “research has proven that any country’s gross tertiary enrolment ratio has so much to do with GDP. So for our instructors and for our lecturers here, once you have that responsibility and you get so much committed to it, then we are sure that the gross tertiary enrolment ratio will definitely increase, and once that increases, the GDP of the country will increase.”
“And for this simple reason, if the economy is not doing well it is not the economists, it is the teachers. Let me say that again if the economy is not doing well, it is not the finance minister, it is not the economist, it is the teacher because the performance of the economy depends on the country’s gross tertiary enrolment ratio,” She added.
She said to the gathering, “It is the teachers because the performance of the economy depends on the country’s gross tertiary enrolment ratio.”
The minister further stated that countries whose gross tertiary enrolment ratio is above 40% have fantastic GDP as compared to countries with lower gross tertiary enrolment ratio, and hence urged teachers to do more to contribute their quota through the training of the needed human capital for economic transformation.
“Countries who have their GTER 40% and above their GDP is fantastic and those of us who have it lower, our economy is struggling. So now the solution is the foundation that you have to provide as a teacher.” She stated in her own words.
