A senior lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Dr Godson A. Tetteh, has been honoured with a Distinguished New Faculty Award by the Florida State College in the United States of America (USA).
The 58-year-old lecturer, who teaches Quality Management at the Business School of GIMPA, was presented with the award after his research paper titled: “Effects of students study time on the learning outcome,” was adjudged the best academic research work in a category from more than 33 countries.
The award is designed to pay tribute to new educators who are guiding 21st century students into the future. It is intended to celebrate new educators for their contribution to advancing education and also encouraging them to contribute to the teaching profession.
Dr Tetteh’s award was presented to him by the Provost of Florida State College, Dr Ian Neuhard, at the 27th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning held in USA.
He was presented with a trophy, while his name was listed in the awards section of the conference app.
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Speaking to the Daily Graphic, Dr Tetteh attributed the award to the support of his student’s at GIMPA, saying “the research paper was done based on my encounter with them”.
“I wanted to find out why my students found it so difficult to pass their exams. My desire to discover what made them fail drove me to come out with the research paper,” he said.
Dr Tetteh explained that one of the reasons why the standard of education in the country had fallen was because lecturers “have not made it their main priority to come out with other methods of helping the students to attain the best in their academic work”.
Most lecturers, he said, instead of engaging the students in more advanced and better techniques of learning had left them to study alone.
“This is not helping them in anyway as most of the students are left frustrated and feeling bad because they couldn’t pass their exams,” he added.
