General News of Sunday, 30 April 2017Source: GNAGive basic school heads 'total autonomy' – Prof. AdeiProfessor Stephen AdeiProfessor Stephen Adei, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Ashesi University College, has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to give “total autonomy” to basic school heads to manage the schools. He said the heads should be given the ultimate supervisory role and allowed to punish pupils responsibly to improve education at that level. Prof. Adei who made the call at the 9th Biennial Alumni Congress of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) noted that government was spending too much on basic education and yet not getting results and advocated a total decentralisation at that level. He said about 66 percent of basic education graduates were functionally illiterate and said no country could succeed with that foundation, and called for the heads to be empowered and held responsible for the success or otherwise of education at the basic level. “The remaining subjects can be done for fun, with this, the sky is the limit,” he added.

Source: GhanaWeb April 30, 2017 10:52 UTC