The 2019 edition of the Educom awards was held successfully over the weekend.
The Educom awards which is organized by Neogenics Education seeks to reward deserving individuals and organizations making strides in the country’s educational sector.
The Chief Executive of Neogenics Education, Mr Grant Bulmuo in his address expressed his satisfaction at the change of what he described as an “outdated and breathless curriculum” for Ghana’s educational sector.
Mr. Grant Bulmuo was of the view that the country’s educational sector is currently undergoing a “great transformation.”
He further likened the change in the educational curriculum to the ‘new wine’ parable in the Bible.
“Ghana’s Education system is currently undergoing a great transformation. At long last our outdated and breathless curriculum has been replaced with a more modern and international standard version with the potential to equip the Ghanaian child with 21st century skills.”
“Indeed the new national buzz and catchphrase is the new curriculum when you relate with anybody within the education space. The new curriculum sounds like a new breeze or a magic wand that is believed to hold the key to the socio-economic transformation of our entire country in the near future. To some extent one could compare this new curriculum to the new wine Jesus stated in one of His Parables in the Bible.”
Below are excerpts of Mr. Grant Bulmuo’s speech at the awards ceremony:
The entire Ghana Education Service and some of the associated bodies of the Ministry of Education are besieged by old wine skins who need to be moved out to allow the new wine to have its full effect. We need to put away political interest and deliver what the future of this country needs.
OLD WINE skins will always prefer their old wines. For the new curriculum to flourish and be successful, the powers that be needs to do the ultimate thing.
And that is getting rid of all the old wine skins and its old mindsets and take on positive and open minded new wine skins.
Some of these old wines skins include teachers, Headteachers, Circuit supervisors, Regional and District Directors who have never achieve any great success with their students and will always blame others for their lack of achievement without taking personal responsibilities for any failure.
It is time to be robust and tough with a new regime of sector Leadership that is fearless, selfless and possesses a WILL that bites deep.
Our schools are infected with OLD WINE-OLD-SCHOOL-HEADS who are marking time towards their Pension, hence have nothing to lose except the inhibition of life chances of young people who attend their schools.
For how long can we leave the FUTURES of our young people and those of unborn generations in the hands of OLD WINE SKINS who have attained their current status and school positions via the endurance of long service and subjective periodical promotions that were never justified or supported with measurable and empirical evidence. For how long can we continue to see our public schools led by Heads who year in and year out continue to reap zero % BECE passes yet keep their post while their graduate lose their goals.
May I suggest that if the Ghana Education Service and for that matter the Ministry of Education cannot find more effective school leaders to manage schools then they should handover such failing schools to Private individuals who can take the little capitation assigned to such schools and turn them around.
About Educom awards
Education Community (EDUCOM) Awards 2019, is an awards event to recognise the contributions and all the valuable educational related work that is undertaken within the Education space and learning communities across Ghana by schools, students/pupils, parents, media houses, publishers, agencies, NGOs and other individuals or organisations.
For the past four years, Neogenics Education Group has been organizing EDUCOM Awards to recognise the contributions of schools, students, teachers, organisations etc.
This year’s edition which was the 4th edition was held at the Holiday Inn last Saturday.
12 awards were given to deserving people and institutions.
3 certificates of recognition and 1 honorary award were also given.