Fifelomo Dawodu in her commentary, Perspective on Education as a Profession: Case for Professional Educators, takes a swipe at the various somersaults in the regulatory policies of the Ministry of Education highlighting the systemic impact on the entire educational sector. The Education Ministry has been trending lately. Constantly we hear and read in the popular media about pronouncements, claims, directives, counter-narratives on many issues. Some of the more recent rancorous topics have been minimum entry age for universities, compulsory vocational subjects from Basic 1, re-introduction of History as a stand alone subject, and extension of basic education to 12 years. The debate of late has been fast and sometimes, furious. Sadly, many of those interventions, the result of many moons of painstaking research may never be seen. This is most likely the case and it reinforces the general criticism of academia in our part of the world, that academia is removed from our day to day reality and does not offer much in terms of practical solutions to society’s challenges.