Arabic education in Ghana is gradually fading out as compared to the Christian religion. Several schools in Ghana don’t have any instructors. It is gradually killing the interest of the Islamic communities in Ghana. The Bono East regional manager of the Islamic religion. Imam Illiyansu Mohammed said this after the inauguration of the Bono East Islamic regional office in Techiman of the Bono East region.
He has promised to design a curriculum that will help to facilitate comprehensive and accessible Arabic teaching in the region, he stressed, that, this will start from the lower primary to SHS.
The Bono East Islamic region manager has made a passionate appeal to the Ministry of Education and the GES to go back to the round table and consider the need for Arabic in the education curriculum. He says the lack of instructors in schools has contributed to the fall of Arabic education. He added that several parents have transferred their children from schools where Islamic education is not taught.
He was disturbed by the deplorable conditions of the Arabic schools in the Bono East region and the nation at large. He says most schools he visited teach under trees, which doesn’t auger well for teaching and learning.
The regional manager, says he will work with the heads and his teaching staff to help promote Arabic education and quality academic work. He has promised not to be an armchair leader, as he believes in collective ideas and responsibilities.
He pleaded with the NGOs to support the Islamic schools in dire need!
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