Professor Kwame Osei Kwarteng, the Board Chairman of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA) says the new Senior High and Technical Schools (SHTS) curriculum will reverse the "chew, pour, pass" syndrome among students.

Rather, he said the NaCCA was developing a more comprehensive curriculum that prioritised problem solving and innovations, and therefore, called for stakeholders' inputs.

Prof Kwarteng, also the Provost, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cape Coast, said changing trends in the world, dynamics and the Fourth Revolution necessitated the need for the development of the curriculum.

"We can't continue to do things the old ways that we were doing it. Our old objective-based curriculum appears to be more examination oriented, and students complete school and they become unemployed", Prof Kwarteng stated at a day's stakeholders' engagement in Sunyani.

The NaCCA organised the engagement to collect stakeholders' inputs on the development of a-three-year SHTS curriculum, attended by civil society organisations and actors, Heads of Departments and Agencies, traditional authorities, religious bodies, industry players in various sectors and students.

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Madam Justina Owusu-Banahene, the Bono Regional Minister said the curriculum must capture Ghanaian values and culture.

She also urged the NaCCA to ensure that the National Anthem was sung in local languages to instill a sense of patriotism in the minds of students.

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