Questions for the undercover agent Anas:

 

Questions for the undercover agent Anas:

1. How many other reports have not been released for some reasons? 

2. What is the proof that the raw footages have not been spliced together to favor the undercover agent’s selected narratives?

3. Is there a recording of the desktop processes leading to the creation of the video that was shown to the public?

4. Has there been an independent and transparent review of the validity of the video editing process to assure public that they are not being fooled?

5. Do you and your people accept that past results do not guarantee future performance? As the investment companies say? That the Anas we knew years ago maybe using the public trust for personal benefits now?

6. How do we guarantee that the citizens do not become the ultimate victims?

7. Can you open your source data for open and independent accreditation?

8. Can you upload all the raw footages for public scrutiny?

9. Did your team acquire a Broadview video recording that allows independent analysis to ascertain that those caught are not being help to ransom by a one sided video?

10. Were the baits recognized investors or they were actors?

11. The fight against corruption and abuse of power, wouldn’t it be better to use asset declarations and compulsory investigations into unexplained wealth as the accepted method? 

Rather than a whole nation relying on a “sacred dark agent”?

12. It’s been 20 years of Anas undercover reports, isn’t it time to move to a more appropriate method of dealing with corruption?

13. Shouldn’t all person’s in the chain of custody and stewardship be required to swear with their lives to ensure that all cases of corruption will be dealt with?

Just like Prison Officers and Arms depot officers held liable for the prisoners and armament in their custody?

#undercoverQuestions

ITS TIME FOR THE BIG UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA TO CHARGE FEES:

 ITS TIME FOR THE BIG UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA TO CHARGE FEES:

And for government to support students by paying bursary.

Tying the fortunes of the universities to the government’s economic management incompetence is a double jeopardy for the nation.

As a strategy for national development some state institutions should be empowered to pursue autonomous systems to advance national objectives. And not run the entire nation under one political administration.

Autonomous Universities will have the power to pursue projects that will make them globally competitive and develop ways of generating higher returns on investment to fund their ambitious projects for the good of the nation.

As it is now, Universities are tied down to the limited resources that the political administrations can provide. The revenue generation systems are already bankrupt, government use of public funds is bedeviled with corruption and mismanagement. At this pace, public universities are never going to develop properly.

By providing bursaries, the performance or failure of government will only affect the number of students on bursary, while the University can continue to operate at a higher level by recruiting those ready to pay the right fees to maintain a globally competitive system.

We cannot continue to operate the way we have been doing since 1948 where we are perpetually starved of the needed resources in addition to faculty being poorly paid. We can no longer argue that people are poor so the current model should be maintained even if it continues to waste the potential of many people. Why should some people's ability and desire to pay appropriate fees at the university be the only reason for operating a system that soffocate the life of many people.

Its not elitist but pragmatic drive for the much needed progress.

#Leadership
#progress
#Wiseup
#Universities
#innovation

ON THE MATTER OF CHANGES TO EDUCATION CALENDAR IN GHANA:

 ON THE MATTER OF CHANGES TO EDUCATION CALENDAR IN GHANA:

The thing is creativity can appear chaotic. Allow some margin of guided chaos. The point is not to appear to push back on every move for change otherwise we appear as unserious and confused people. We have to guide against cosmetic changes yes! But resisting change of every form is not progressive.

With engineering, building devices with fewer pieces and fewer moving parts is looked at as effective and efficient. A two semester system will definitely make planning easier and productive than a 3 three term system.

With digitalized education coming on in the 21st century, we might even individualize learning and do away permanently terms, semesters and year structures. We will supply all materials and allow the kids to learn and develop as they are ready. Tutors are assigned to supervise kids in the same phase in a dynamic way.

More change is coming.

#educationalleadership
#education
#learning
#digital
#creativity

The time has come for us to rationalize the number of undergraduates that leave Ghana

 The time has come for us to rationalize the number of undergraduates that leave Ghana

Everyone is free to study where they like, but can the nation continue to subsidize tertiary education only for huge numbers to continue to leave the shores of Ghana. By so doing continue to stunt the growth of national universities?

For some course it is strategically important to travel and study. Many others also just need the scholarship to survive. Those who do not return immediately after studies should be required to pay a bond equivalent to actual fees for tertiary education in Ghana. About 50,000 ghs annually, this can fund the national fund.

The time has come for us to rationalize the number of undergraduates that leave Ghana. We need to retain some of the best to grow the quality of postgraduate programmes, which is the means by which nations produce intellectual property that drive industrialization.

No one can complain that people have returned from studies abroad and have remained jobless for years, anyone remaining unemployed after graduate studies abroad for years must have a big story going on, otherwise the odds are very low.

We all need to look at the big picture and lend their support. The call is to help the break even with the tertiary education funding. Those days of dire poverty is over so the prospects of people succeeding in graduate school in Ghana is higher now. The challenge now is how to accelerate development by returning some of the best and not force facullties of universities struggling to compete globally to do so with what is left after the best and the brightest have all left the country.

I recently learned that people pay 50,000 GHS a year at Ashesi University, so we can use that as the best estimate of the cost of first degree. Government passed the National research fund bill but it’s silent on it. They don’t know where to find money from their corruption and incompetence to start the operations. So if our brightest and best abroad will be kind enough to refund their education subsidy received, research funding can happen. This will improve the educational system and send more send more out there continue to pay forward into the research fund. At some point the system will get to the quality that will compel people to return and stop moving out in droves.

People raise the point that tertiary education subsidy is funded through taxes that the students pay, but at the time of going to University one's taxes won't amount to much. The one year service to the nation is not up to the cost either. Working for about 10 years might be what will cover the cost. One has do the analysis carefully and gain geninue insights. Some will pay taxes more others less with a period of time. It also depends on the job one does.

It will take a raft of measures and bonding is one of them.yes it will take a raft of measures and bonding is one of them. If the best and the brightest out there can band together and work together on the way forward. It will be nice for the progress of this country.

This piece is in support of the issue raised by Dr. Richard Mintah of University of Ghana. I have also been concerned with the increasing number reference but did not link it to the brain drain issue. Countries like China have the incentives to attract them back but in Ghana the resources to provide incentives is very hard to find.

It must be clarified that the time people spend in training abroad is not what this is about. If people continue to stay abroad after their training then the need to refund their tertiary education subsidy kicks in. They should think of a more direct contribution towards tertiary education in Ghana. More resources will level up the system and stop the brain drain. Thus creating a positive feedback loop is a forward looking idea which can accelerate the process of development of Ghana. Beyond what the indirect social remittances can do.