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Grade 2? Pre-schools kid in Kenya can read and write in English. 3yr old kids go to Nursery - and in Junior pre-school they must read - in English - and Pre-Primary - they cannot get to grade 1 without reading. Mother tongue is taught in rural areas as a language/subject...not a language of instruction.

If you were a little humble - you could learn a lot why KENYA EDUCATION standard are very very high

Just30:
for grade 2 kids who where only introduced to writing in the mother tongue at grade 1

That is progress

Fool

These Ghanians should be taken to the zoo (Nigeria) and be displayed as evidence that human evolution is indeed a very slow process. No wonder Nigeirans have low of opinion of them.

gallivant:


At least now Appisko understands and he can go spread the wisdom in Ghana where its certainly needed.

That is even worse if you cannot understand your mother tongue

Just30:
do you know what minimum literacy standards for grade 2 children is in Ghana?

It is the ability to read and write in your mother tongue

Fool

The thing is right there in front of you but you can't ready.

You have a problem with English in addition to Math

Wow
Boy you are a wasted sperm

I know you cannot understand simple English comprehension like this - because frankly you're part of the horrible stats here.

. At the other end of the spectrum, only 13% of public school pupils nationally were found to meet the
minimum standards for literacy.

2009 - what has changed. Are you going to blame the famine of 1980s for the mental retardation or what?

Kenya has been leading in all assessment done since 1990s

SACMEQ I Project (1995-1998)
SACMEQ II Project (2000-2004)

Just30:
in Ghanaian language, only 13% of Ghanaian class 2 kids read and write in Ghanaian languages.


And the study was conducted in 2009
Fool

Kenya very high quality of education - can only be compared to few countries in Magreb and maybe Mauritus.In SACMEQ - In entire South Africa only the Western Cape province kid measure with average kenyan kids

Kenya
There have been many early grade reading assessments administered in Kenya over the past
10 years. This report focuses on seven studies for which sufficient information could be
obtained. These seven studies include four projects assessed via EGRA, SACMEQ, Uwezo,
and the Reading to Learn initiative. Because the SACMEQ (2007) and Uwezo (2009–2012)
results have previously been discussed, it is not necessary to repeat that information here,
except to note that Kenyan pupils consistently perform at the top of the pack on both
assessments.
In 2009, there was a four-language EGRA with 2,000 grade 3 pupils. Each pupil was assessed
in English and his or her mother tongue (i.e., Kiswahili, Gikuyu, or Dholuo). The results
showed ORF zero scores between 14% and 20% (Piper et al., 2010). Two years later, a
diagnostic EGRA in urban Nairobi found that only 6% of pupils were unable to correctly read
DERP – Status of Early Grade Reading in sub-Saharan Africa 19
a single word in the English passage as compared with 10% in Kiswahili (B. Piper, personal
communication, July 25, 2015).
From August 2011 until August 2014, more than 500 schools participated in the
USAID/Kenya Primary Math and Reading (PRIMR) Initiative. Baseline results from this
study (RTI International, 2015b) showed significantly higher zero scores than the previously
mentioned assessments because lower grades were assessed and because of differences in
sample populations. Specifically, ORF zero scores in English ranged from 68% pupils in
grade 1 to 30% in grade 2. In Kiswahili, zero scores ranged from 73% pupils in grade 1 to
35% in grade 2 (RTI International, 2014a). Effect sizes on PRIMR ORF from baseline to
endline were calculated in 2014 and are presented in Table 7. The table shows that there were
clearly larger effect sizes for English scores (as compared with Kiswahili), but that the
intervention produced significant increases in ORF for both languages.
Table 7. PRIMR Effect Sizes for ORF by Grade and Language
Grade English Kiswahili
1 0.47 0.28
2 0.50 0.39
The two-year Reading to Learn intervention study led by the Aga Khan Foundation found
that its five-step scaffolding approach to literacy only produced 0.08 standard deviation effect
gains in Kiswahili reading scores (Lucas et al., 2014). Kenya has also participated in a
Literacy Boost program, but the reading results are currently unavailable. In addition, Kenya
was one of the selected countries for the GEC initiative (previously discussed in this report).
Overall, pupils in Kenya have been found to perform better than most other countries in the
region and near the top of all sub-Saharan African countries.

OECD administer PISA - Ghana has never done them. They did TIMSS and came bottom...bottom. Worse than Botswana and South Africa. You can tell from how they argue here that clearly they got a raw deal education wise - from Pope in Vatican

Kenya standard out - only beaten by tiny islands like Mauritus.

Anyway this is good publication if you want to see assessment done on quality education
https://www.globalreadingnetwork.net/sites/default/files/media/file/Status%20of%20Early%20Grade%20Reading%20SSA%20to%20USAID.pdf

Ghana - , only 13% of public school pupils nationally were found to meet the minimum standards for literacy

Wuoche:
First your schools don't have buses.
Second there's no such ranking by OECD, if it's there you can post it.
Third, I knew all along that you will be making noise that's I was not expecting any evidence from you. All you are good at is talking without evidence.

The day Ghana will reach Kenya's level in terms of education please don't forget to tell me.

BRT -along Thika road - Bus Station in Kasarani,

Nairobi will have BRT in both Thika and Nairobi expressway


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1skXXUtYIM

Nairobi Expressway - Westland Area - incredible progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09PWnCgxMpo

This guy claims there are 700,000 chinese in Ghana. Ghana and Zambia are Chinese colonies in Africa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb9exugpgjg

Cocoa can increase in production in non gold region or by better crop husbandry or new farms ; you're always going to off tagent. Kenya is NOT A ZOO. No chinese can be allowed WITHOUT A WORK PERMIT - and that mean they have to proof they have skills nobody has or serious business worth serious money.

Ask Nigerians in Kenya - they get kicked out.

Our immigration is not Ghana joke.

Just30:
it's a simple question

Answer

How will cocoa farms be destroyed and yet cocoa harvest will increase by 20% ?

The chinese are labourers for Ghanaians mine owner but in Kenya, they are they managers of your port and rails.

They own everything
That is why your people are poor

The journalist quoted an expert. The expert estimated 95% of all mines are illegal. And you're quoting yourself as always Fool nobody give a damn what the figures your careless throw around.

Just30:
95% of all small scale mining in Ghana are not illegal.
In fact, they all have permit to mine and prospect and they are run by Ghanaians who own the mines.

The Chinese govt protested that their people were being scapegoated even when they are not the owners of the mines.

Chinese gangs are minning illegally in forest and people cocoa farms. You're as always going off tangent.

Just30:
the price of mining anywhere has always been the destruction of vegetation.

How can they destroy cocoa farms and yet Cocoa harvest will increase by 20% ?



The Chinese and Israelis will keep milking kenya dry while poverty in kenya keeps increasing like the way extreme poverty has increased from 15 million people to 20 million people in your country

Here is one that you missed - a journalist investigation. 95% of all small scale minning in Ghana are illegal - run by Chinese gangs - armed with guns! The ghanian follow chinese trail - after the heavy machinery - they go to scramble for any left over gold with their bare hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohrrE1rjzLo

Just30:
Except after investigations into several mines, it was revealed that all of them are own by Ghanaians and the Chinese were contracted to be labourers.

And these investigations were carried out by investigation journalists and media houses.

Or watch this video - They have destroyed my cocoa farm; they have destroyed my future


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohrrE1rjzLo

I rather listen to your president again

Artisanal mining began as small-time ventures. But the “romantic” era of individual mining has given way to “large-scale and dangerous” operations run by foreign-controlled criminal syndicates, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo told a mining conference in February. Ghana is Africa’s second-largest gold produce

Just30:
we even made Europeans and Americans chief.

There are several levels of chief.


Chinese were brought in as labourers to work on the mines of Ghanaians who own them.

After we finish using them, we sent them back to their country.

In kenya, they have taken over everything in your country because your govt owe them a debt which hasn't been paid.

Chinese contractors are top in the world. If you want international quality contract delivered on time and quality- you give to chinese. Small little contractors we give it to Kenyan contractors.

When a contract is given out - the profit margin that goes to China contractor is maybe 10% - the rest is spend on materials, staff, and name it.

Just30:
And you think Chinese contractors ain't corrupt?

I will rather deal with a corrupt African contractor than a Chinese.At least the money will stay in the economy.


As a result of giving our own contractors contract.
Today they deliver great project with superb quality and on time

Yes, Chinese kick them out of their cocoa farms, mine their gold, and smuggle it. Ghana and Zambia are twins. Chinese have basically taken over their country. They are both ever broke countries.

Ghana even made a chinese a King or Chief

Wuoche:
We all know that Ghana is the main colony of China in Africa. There are 700,000 Chinese in Ghana alone. Chinese controls your politics and country. When will Tema Port be the property of Ghana?, The is owned by the French.

IMF exist principally to deal with countries in distress.

Yes they have some 'usual' loans that Kenya take - and then they have bailout that Ghana takes. Kenya was IMF customer in 90s. You're IMF customer seen 1960s...when Kwame Nkumurah bankrupted Ghana by building Volta dam without money.

You went to which school with IMF? The catholic school of idi.ots.?

IMF loan types
the Extended Credit Facility - this bailout
the Rapid Credit Facility
the Standby Credit Facility - this more an insurance

Just30:
IMF was not created for Covid like situations


How come your country has been to IMF more than Ghana?


Ghanaians are intelligent enough to play the IMF because we all went to the same monetary school and have built the existing financial systems. And we all worked on the same trading floors in NYC, Frankfort and London


Anyway, you country badly need that 2.5 billion dollars from IMF and China at this point is cutting back.

Chinese loans are the best. They are at same concessionary rates like IMF/WB - with some of it grants. Chinese also deliver - on projects - on time and on quality. Yes there contractors will come but that also help deal with corrupt African contractors. We gave some Nigeria company a road contract - they took 10yrs and delivered worst quality road. Chinese can do the same in less than a year.

Just30:
But you want Chinese money with even greater conditionalities that you wont even be able to avoid?

That is actual colonialism

Ghana dictates terms to IMF by setting it own pace
Kenya can't avoid Chinese terms hence why they have taken over your country.

Only COVID has sent countries to IMF. IMF was created for COVID-19 like situation. Nobody thought a country named Ghana would be going to IMF every 3 yrs.

Appisko:
STFU u can't be staying in the glass house and throwing stones

Kenyans urge IMF to cancel over $2B loan

At least for once they got Kenya population is 48.7M now. IMF is bad news. We had our trouble in 90s. We are very angry that we are back at IMF after 20yrs of peace. We know what IMF will demand - high taxes, cutback on social spending, job freezes on gov or even retrenchment, and finally cut on any development.

Appisko:
Kenya and imf

At a Glance
2021 Projected Real GDP (% Change) : 7.6
2021 Projected Consumer Prices (% Change): 5.0
Country Population: 48.693 million
Date of Membership: February 3, 1964
Article IV/Country Report: October 23, 2018
Outstanding Purchases and Loans (SDR): 695.06 million (February 28, 2021)
Special Drawing Rights (SDR): 7.35 million
Quota (SDR): 542.8 million
Number of Arrangements since membership: 20

Yes, we do not want IMF and their conditionalitie's. It's a nightmare. It's neo-colonialism. We are not Ghana to be dictacted by IMF in 21st century.

PetroDolla2020:
International Monetary Fund (IMF) to decide whether to approve Loans(Kshs 225B) to Kenya or revoke following the complaints by Kenyans on social media concerning corruption in the government of KENYA.
#StopLoaningKenya


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Nope. IMF bailout come attached with very bad conditionalities . This is why Ghana has completely left it's education sector to the mercies of the church.

If you want free money - go the Eurobond and take as much as you can - but obviously with bad credit rating - you'll pay Ghana like interest - sending you back to the arms of IMF

Ghana’s relationship with the IMF is a cycle of meeting targets under its programs before falling back on bad habits.

Just30:
Ghana was never broke in all of those bailouts.

IMF offered great financial terms and it fostered Ghana's growth.
In return, IMF want around the world preaching it gospel to unsuspecting countries like yours who don't know much about the financial market because your people weren't educated enough.

IMF got constantly ripped off by Ghana


Your country has so much to learn so it can reduce it 40 million desperate poor people out of which 20 million are extremely poor.

IMF bailout broke bankrupt countries; It done that record 16 times in Ghana.

Just30:
Desperation is when you go around the web looking for campaign propaganda from politicians 6 years ago.

Its is called political campaign postering.



The same person who said that
Also said Ghana is so rich with so much financial resources and is mustering all of them to make sure Ghana runs on a "democratic socialism" as Bernie Sanders is preaching.

Yes we seen their blind patriotism here almost impervious to all reasons and logic; The country of dwarfs have huge Napoleon complex going on

Sigmud certainly had Ghana in his mind when he wrote this;

"Napoleon Complex" is a theorized inferiority complex normally attributed to people of short stature. It is characterized by overly-aggressive or domineering social behavior, such as lying about earnings, and carries the implication that such behavior is compensatory for the subject's physical or social shortcomings.

popizaino:
Maybe you are right on the bolded .

Let listen to your president for a change

Nana Akufo-Addo: The government in power today has received more resources – from loans, increasing tax revenues, receipts from exports – than any other government in the 60-year period of our national existence. Indeed more than probably three or four of them put together. Yet here we are, wallowing in corruption.

No serious effort has been made to tackle the structural problems confronting our nation, whether in governance or the management of our economy. No one seems to have a clear idea of what’s happened to all of this money.

The economy, four or five years ago, was considered the rising star of Africa. Ghana – everybody’s favourite African country – was on the verge of take off but is now bankrupt and back in the hands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), begging for a billion dollars to sustain it over the next two or three years.

Just30:
Ghana has never gone Bankrupt but will use every means to play international institutions for their free money.


All of what I've said have been proven here with videos from power industry players.

I can see you are allergic to facts.


Kid you are bleeding and desperate.

How do you live in a country that can't provide simple electricity to even 50% of it population?

Is it because your coubtry is broke?
How come even Nairobi can't give water to 50% of it population?


You Kenyans and your leaders don't have brains
That is really messed up

None of what you say is true. Here is the TRUTH - Ghana has been bankrupt more than any other Africa country for these reasons - ZERO BRAINS.

Ghana’s experience is a cautionary tale for countries that find themselves in a situation of having too much electricity at any given point. Without careful forward planning, proper data-driven analysis, and transparent, competitive, corruption-free contracting processes, any country could find itself in the same situation as Ghana.

https://theconversation.com/lessons-to-be-learnt-from-ghanas-excess-electricity-shambles-121257

Just30:
You call have enough electricity useless?

No wonder more than 50% of kenyans sleep in darkness like they are living in the dark ages .

Ameri operated the plant for 5 years and recouped their investments through selling power.

The only expensive investment in this world is having to go for a loan from China and awarding them a contract to take away all the money and yet repay the money with interest like stupid Kenya does all the time.

That is classic BOT dumb fool.
Unfortunately kenyans ain't smart enough.



4 things you've learnt so far from me.

1.BOT can be done in 5 years.
2.Ghana use 75% of it 5400MW generation capacity
3. Ghana only pay for the power it uses.
4. 90% of Ghanaians are connected to the grid.

Make absolutely sense. I guess living in the shadows of Nigeria has reduced them to that. They have to shout to be heard.

popizaino:
Lol.....a certain kenyan on this thread once described Ghanaians in a single line saying, "Ghanaians are irrelivant and they like to be heard", , thus, thèse makes them say all manner of absurd things just to get noticed........when you understand this fact about them,trust me you wont waste much of your time with any of them .

You're a big fool - if you pay monthly or annually - what difference does it make - you will have paid AMERI the 500M dollars they invested; That is not BOT. You basically took a loan to build expensive useless thermal plants.

Just30:
Ameri is one of the smartest power agreements that was signed in 2015 .

Ghana paid absolutely nothing for the plant.

Ghanaians paying the same tariffs at a competitive market rate for the power Ameri produced for 5 years has given us a free plant.

Ameri will be producing power for Ghana for the next 15 to 20 years with all the money going to VRA.


That is a smart energy agreement.

Because kenyan politicians are not smart, Ormat geothermal will keep being used by the Israelis to smoke your country dry.

AMERI

The 17 times bankrupt nation - indoctrinated by Vatican - continue to make bad decision after another - if not paying the Brits 76B dollars not to sit on their golden stool - it electricity deals like this

Ghana President Nana Akufo-Addo fired the country’s energy minister due to proposals for a renegotiation of a $510 million private power deal with Africa Middle East Resources Investment Ltd.

Under a proposal that was submitted to lawmakers with the backing of Akufo-Addo last month, a new operator would take over running the plant in a deal that would’ve incurred Ghana $825 million in fresh costs, according to an estimate by Kwadwo Poku, country director of Gasop Oil Ghana Ltd., an Accra-based oil explorer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-07/ghana-energy-minister-fired-due-to-power-deal-says-presidency

Loook at the fool - connecting 30,000 household per year - South Sudan do more than that,
Kenya connect about 1.5m household annually - ABOUT HALF YOUR ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD CONNECTED
Kenya has for the last few years had the WORLD FASTEST electrification
And this despite being largely rural.

Kenya connectivity pace is also among top three fastest across the globe, alongside Afghanistan and Cambodia. The three countries have electrified their populations at annual rates exceeding seven percent since 2010, way above the global average electrification rate of 0.3 percent.29 May 2020

Remember kenya in 2005 had only 12% electrification with 0.4m customers in the grid.

Now the figure is more than 8M household connected to the grid...all achieved in 15yrs.

We can achieve universal electricity access in 3yrs.

Just30:
Funny


Kenya is a backward zoo that is living in darkness

That is why all you communities look underdeveloped with unpaved roads all over. Even including your best.

Ghana's census will happen this year like we always do.

Kenya is on the level of South Sudan and that is why you guys are so poor.

In Ghana when new communities are connected to the Grid, We provide free meters and connection to all homes
In 2020, we connected 400 new communities and all it residence
almost 30,000 meters provided

There goes the liar. You already paid 470M dollars. The Arabs are willing to forgive 2m dollars for smuggling your gold.
This worse deal - you're paying the cost of building the plant - after AMERI had made a fortune in 5yrs.
Remember you were paying 2m dollars for every MW>
This is why you've been bankrupt record 17 times!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look like you had to fire the Energy minister for signing one most lopsided deals
https://www.africa-energy.com/article/ghana-energy-minister-fired-over-new-ameri-deal

Just30:
The Ameri deal was signed on a 5 years BOOT agreement

AMERI operated the plant for 5 years and transferred the plant to Gov't at a cost of 1 dollars.