The Government
has been urged to help private nursing colleges to improve health care delivery
in the country since the Government’s facilities alone cannot do the job.
Speaking at the
3rd graduation and matriculation ceremony of DOF collage of health in Kumasi, the
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the school, Dr Samuel K. Osei explained
that, there are a lots of challenges that are facing private health sector
which government and Ministry of health should take into consideration by
employing their students after completion of the school and also provide them
with both teaching, learning and practical materials.
Dr Osei added
that, it is very sad that, government health sector refuses to employ students
who have completed private nursing training apart from private hospitals which
affect both the school and the students.
COMPUTER
PLACEMENT
“Our understanding to the computer
placement was that, it will give equal opportunities to every child or BECE
candidate to be in any of the “best” schools in Ghana. And also, do away with
the corruption that existed in admission of new students by some heads of
schools.
Ghanaians were made to understand that
the computer placements system will be flawless and will save parents from the
pain of moving from place to place, seeking admission for their wards, and save
them from being exploited by some corrupt headmasters and middle men.
WHAT
PEOPLE DON’T KNOW ABOUT COMPUTERS
What people don’t know about computer is
that, computers are operated by people both good and bad. Information do not
get into the computer by themselves and any information that the operator shall
feed it with, that is what is will give out. So never think that the computer
operates itself. It only saves time and save files as well.
HAS
THE COMPUTER PLACEMENT HELPED?
To me the computer placement system has
failed to do things right. I have taken time to go round talking to many BECE
candidates whose results have just been released .Could you believe that up to
this time that many are about to go to school, many children do not know the
school they are going. While others are yet to receive their admission letters.
How can a computer place a girl to boy schools and a boy to a girl’s school? Is
this the computer school placement?
WHAT
IS THE NEED OF CHOOSING SCHOOLS
So far as I know, every candidate was
given school selection form to choose from. Parents, together with their wards
were given the opportunity to make their own choices. Every candidate was given
the opportunity to choose four schools, but how come that many of these
children have still not been placed? And many of those who have been placed
have been placed in schools they did not choose at all?
If one can be placed in a school he or
she did not choose, then what was the need for the opportunity to choose?
FRUSTRATIONS
FOR THE BECE CANDIDATE
Many have not considered the
psychological trauma that some of these children who have not yet been placed
by the computer to their schools of choice, are going through. Even though they
have qualified to be there.
As I was going round, I saw many
children still browsing to know where they have been placed. At the same time,
I saw those who have received their placement and admission letters also
hugging one another with smiles of joy, whiles the others looked on frustrated.
Let us not destroy the confidence of our children who are the future leaders of
our nation.
REVIEW
THE COMPUTER PLACEMENT SYSTEM
I believe that those who initiated the
computer placement system meant good for the children. But today wrong and
corrupt people are sitting behind the computers, and are giving it a bad name.
I am appealing to the Ghana Education
Service and the ministry of education to review the system. Some people have
turned the placement system as their cocoa season. How can people feed the
computer with the name of a male, and place him in a girls school, and a girl,
in a boys school?
It is time the powers that be look at
this issue very well, and stop frustrating parents and the children.
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