A 12-year-old child was among the 2,900 fresh students who matriculated at the University of Ghana over the weekend.
Viemens Bamford is studying Public Administration in the University of Ghana Distance Education School.
Viemens said to be tutored by his father, Robert Bamfo for the past three years in various subjects successfully passed the November-December West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
He is not the only beneficiary of homeschooling, but also his senior brother, 20-year-old Edwin Bamfo who went through the same training and completed the Kwame Nkrumah University (KNUST) with Upper-Class honours in Environmental Science.
The boy, in an interview with Accra based Citi TV, stated that his father used what his children like to teach them – teaching by association.
“We combined the syllabus… we used the Cambridge syllabus and the WASSCE syllabus… so I understood some basic things about [them],” he said.
